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

I make a special mention of this point, as we shall find it has a certain connexion with the subject of the origins 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.

On the other hand, it is possible to trace a feeling towards euphuism among writers who were quite outside this group.

From John Lyly by Wilson, John Dover