euphuism

Example Sentences

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"We're losing the war," he insists, adding with a flourish of Romneyesque euphuism: "The Viet Nam tail is wagging our global dog."

From Time Magazine Archive

Above all, none of the grandiosity and architectural euphuism of the American "signature" museum.

From Time Magazine Archive

We can, however, dismiss this second branch of our subject in fewer words, because the problem of Euphues is much simpler and more straightforward than the problem of euphuism.

From John Lyly by Wilson, John Dover

Cynthia's Revels has the same defects, but is to some extent saved by its sharp raillery of euphuism.

From A History of Elizabethan Literature by Saintsbury, George

That lady was considered most proficient in euphuism who could keep up longest these chains of similes taken out of fabulous natural history.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 8 "Ethiopia" to "Evangelical Association" by Various