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

There is truth in all these hypotheses, but each misses the true significance of the matter, which is that euphuism must have come, and would have come, without any question of borrowing.

From John Lyly by Wilson, John Dover

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 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