euphuistic

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In truth, while Ros’s pathos-filled classic now reads as unintentionally comic, its euphuistic style isn’t that much different from the circumlocutions found in late Henry James.

From Washington Post • Aug. 21, 2018

For all the theater and guignol in his work, Caravaggio had far more in common with the great solidifiers of the Renaissance, from Masaccio to Michelangelo, than with the euphuistic wreathings of late mannerism.

From Time Magazine Archive

Mistress of euphuistic words, she is carried away by their glamor, too easily seduced from reason.

From Time Magazine Archive

He found the play arch and pretentious: "The language becomes picky, tricky; at once rigid and self-indulgent, as though everything were being translated from some strangely euphuistic Latin."

From Time Magazine Archive

Arbasto cannot cease gazing at her; he addresses to himself euphuistic speeches several pages long, but they do him no good.

From The English Novel in the Time of Shakespeare by Jusserand, J. J.