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
The world is so much with us, now-a-days, that we need have something that prates to us, albeit even in too fine an euphuism, of the moon and stars.
From The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851 by Various
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
He continued therefore in this vein, writing with extreme facility and rapidity improbable love stories, with wars, kings, and princesses, with euphuism and mythology, with Danish, Greek, Egyptian and Bohemian adventures.
From The English Novel in the Time of Shakespeare by Jusserand, J. J.
