euphuism

Example Sentences

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

From Time Magazine Archive

"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

The style of the Filocopo was new; and in spite, or perhaps because of, its euphuism, it had a decided success.

From Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) by Symonds, John Addington

He preserved, in a great measure, the dramatic tradition of John Lyly, and affected a kind of subdued euphuism.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" by Various

The purity of her literary taste, the love for a chaste and simple style, which Ascham noted with praise in her girlhood, had not yet perished under the influence of euphuism.

From History of the English People, Volume IV by Green, John Richard