euphuistic
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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
Early in July, Molotov was listed as a signer of the euphuistic vale to the departed Georgi Dimitrov.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
His first book also, the 'Galatea,' was an embodiment of a kind of pastoral idealism: sentimental verses being interspersed with euphuistic prose, the whole describing the lovelorn shepherds and heartless shepherdesses of Arcadia.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. VIII by Various
