magniloquence

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But these nuggets feel so precision-engineered to showcase Smith’s hard-earned self-awareness that they appear trite, even insincere, when juxtaposed with his riotous magniloquence.

From Washington Post • Nov. 5, 2021

Hillary may not have MacKaye’s magniloquence, but he shares his idealism.

From New York Times • Mar. 13, 2017

Capably staged by Lee Strasberg, the play, Mr. Kingsley's first-staged, has periods of magniloquence and structural fatuity.

From Time Magazine Archive

But he paced, and roared, and pointed, and pounded, and stabbed with his cigar, and spoke with an intelligence and a magniloquence and a force that overwhelmed.

From Time Magazine Archive

He was a great coward with all his magniloquence, and when cholera attacked Tangier, left it in craven terror, and sequestered himself in a country house a few miles off.

From Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. II) by O'Shea, John Augustus