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

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

He found the play arch and pretentious: "The language becomes picky, tricky; at once rigid and self-indulgent, as though everything were being translated from some strangely euphuistic Latin."

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

And lastly, though characterization is not even attempted, yet now and again these euphuistic puppets, distinguishable only by their labels, are inspired with something that is almost life by a phrase or a chance word.

From John Lyly by Wilson, John Dover