magniloquent

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Just as often, her commentary about The Times consists of magniloquent pronouncements like, “The enterprise, whatever else it is, has almost ceased altogether to be a newspaper.”

From New York Times

Mr. Coetzee’s new novel, “The Childhood of Jesus,” begins like a homage to a book from another writer who works the stern and magniloquent side of the tracks: “The Road,” by Cormac McCarthy.

From New York Times

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

One cannot help thinking of the magniloquent terms in which he would have extolled his remedies, if the fates had led him to the concoction of patent medicines.

From Project Gutenberg

My feller directors"—the chairman waved a magniloquent hand—"agrees with me that the Rovers can offer you a pound a week because you are promisin', although not justified as you are at present.

From Project Gutenberg