orotund

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Its orotund prose certainly differs from the lean muscularity of the Second Inaugural or the elegiac concision of the Gettysburg Address.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 7, 2025

In the title story, for instance, the narrator combines the orotund diction of a robot with little comets of slang, “super nice,” “killing it,” in a way more manufactured than anything in “Tenth of December.”

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 13, 2022

But now the speaker’s orotund oratory, his mannered put-downs, his pompous, practiced, often hilarious jawing will be no more.

From Washington Post • Oct. 31, 2019

The Sénateur speaks in orotund donations—“I will give you a story,” or “Mon vieux, I have been haunted by a dream” —and is always resoundingly theatrical: “The Sénateur’s chortle had progressed to a guffaw.”

From The New Yorker • Mar. 21, 2016

The first of these registers is sometimes called the "orotund" voice from its quality of roundness, and is employed principally in language of reverence, sublimity, and grandeur.

From Talks on Talking by Kleiser, Grenville