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
With euphuism, antithesis and the use of balanced sentences came to stay.
From John Lyly by John Dover Wilson
Her style, instead of being clear and simple, as would have best suited her subject, is disfigured by the euphuism which was the fashion among writers of the last century.
From Mary Wollstonecraft by Elizabeth Robins Pennell
Dr. Blecker used no delicate euphuism in talking of women, which, maybe, was as well.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 68, June, 1863 by Various
