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

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 Saintsbury, George

The idea that euphuism was originally an article of foreign production was first set on foot by Dr Landmann.

From John Lyly by Wilson, John Dover

I make a special mention of this point, as we shall find it has a certain connexion with the subject of the origins of euphuism.

From John Lyly by Wilson, John Dover