euphuistic

Example Sentences

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In truth, while Ros’s pathos-filled classic now reads as unintentionally comic, its euphuistic style isn’t that much different from the circumlocutions found in late Henry James.

From Washington Post • Aug. 21, 2018

Mistress of euphuistic words, she is carried away by their glamor, too easily seduced from reason.

From Time Magazine Archive

Early in July, Molotov was listed as a signer of the euphuistic vale to the departed Georgi Dimitrov.

From Time Magazine Archive

For all the theater and guignol in his work, Caravaggio had far more in common with the great solidifiers of the Renaissance, from Masaccio to Michelangelo, than with the euphuistic wreathings of late mannerism.

From Time Magazine Archive

So far we have been dealing with euphuistic tendencies only, since in the style of Ascham and his predecessors, alliteration and antithesis are not employed consistently, but merely on occasion for the sake of emphasis.

From John Lyly by Wilson, John Dover