magniloquent

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Boris Johnson has long spun political gold from his magniloquent tongue, using what some linguists and observers say bombastic language, esoteric vocabulary, occasional crudity and episodes of bumbling bluster.

From Reuters • Jul. 23, 2019

In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, with the Revolution succeeded by the reign of Napoleon, that meant history painting: magniloquent tableaus — battles, shipwrecks, coronations — in which myth and reality met.

From New York Times • Jan. 24, 2013

T.R. had criticized Wilson for "hopeless weakness" and "magniloquent vagueness."

From Time Magazine Archive

Josef von Sternberg, 49, magniloquent discoverer and first director of Marlene Dietrich; and Jeanne Annette McBride, 21, his brunette ex-secretary; he for the second time; in Hollywood.

From Time Magazine Archive

Its use had to be learnt from French masters of deportment; the old magniloquent Italo-Spanish rapier jargon was forgotten; French terms, barbarized into carte, tierce, sagoon, flanquonade, and so forth, were alone understood.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" by Various