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

Cynthia's Revels has the same defects, but is to some extent saved by its sharp raillery of euphuism.

From A History of Elizabethan Literature by Saintsbury, George

Then Greene returned to euphuism in Menaphon, and in Euphues, his Censure to Philautus; nor are Perimedes the Blacksmith and Tully's Love much out of the same line.

From A History of Elizabethan Literature by Saintsbury, George

Her attitude was a credit to the extremes of euphuism.

From Mistress Nell A Merry Tale of a Merry Time by Hazelton, George C.