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magniloquent

[mag-nil-uh-kwuhnt] / mægˈnɪl ə kwənt /


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Boris Johnson has long spun political gold from his magniloquent tongue, using what some linguists and observers say bombastic language, esoteric vocabulary, occasional crudity and episodes of bumbling bluster.

From Reuters • Jul. 23, 2019

In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, with the Revolution succeeded by the reign of Napoleon, that meant history painting: magniloquent tableaus — battles, shipwrecks, coronations — in which myth and reality met.

From New York Times • Jan. 24, 2013

Leslie's defiantly magniloquent homages to Caravaggio and David, with pink, corn-fed flesh licked by brusque, sweaty highlights.

From Time Magazine Archive

Josef von Sternberg, 49, magniloquent discoverer and first director of Marlene Dietrich; and Jeanne Annette McBride, 21, his brunette ex-secretary; he for the second time; in Hollywood.

From Time Magazine Archive

There are others that enunciate grand sentiments, high sounding and magniloquent, the very music and resonance of their words imparting a warm glow within them.

From Davenport Dunn, Volume 2 (of 2) A Man Of Our Day by Lever, Charles James




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