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
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
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 John Dover Wilson
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
