euphuism

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

Michael Drayton, in some verse complimentary to Sidney, stigmatises not much too strongly Lyly's prevailing faults, and attributes to the hero of Zutphen the purification of England from euphuism.

From A History of Elizabethan Literature by George Saintsbury

And so, though we cannot say that euphuism is verse, we can say that it partakes of the nature of verse.

From John Lyly by John Dover Wilson

Letters, syllables, words, sentences, sentence groups, paragraphs, all are employed for the purpose of producing the antithetical style now known as euphuism.

From John Lyly by John Dover Wilson