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

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.

The novel of Sidney, though its loose and meandering style marked a reaction against euphuism, carried on the Lylian tradition in its appeal to ladies.

From John Lyly by Wilson, John Dover

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