florid

There are Halo novels, miniseries, and reams of florid fan-fiction.

The florid brushwork of a Constable gets hypertrophied in Freud, into a kind of gross exaggeration of what unleashed paint can do.

Show business, of course, provides florid conditions for contempt.

He lacks the magisterial tone of Colm Tóibín or the florid and fertile imagination of Patrick McCabe.

The village organist had distinguished himself by his florid rendering of the Wedding March.

On one occasion, a general titter arose at his florid picture of the happiness which must proceed from this event.

Once he learnt, with his aunt, the exceedingly florid duet in Semiramide, and sang the soprano part admirably.

Darker grew his florid countenance; his bulging eyes looked troubled and perplexed.

The last had a very brilliant career as an orator, though his orations were too florid to be read.