orotund
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Its orotund prose certainly differs from the lean muscularity of the Second Inaugural or the elegiac concision of the Gettysburg Address.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2025
But the extravagance of Tudor self-aggrandizement is almost comical, and it wasn’t limited to the orotund Henry plastering his face onto biblical kings.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 30, 2022
In the title story, for instance, the narrator combines the orotund diction of a robot with little comets of slang, “super nice,” “killing it,” in a way more manufactured than anything in “Tenth of December.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2022
The Sénateur speaks in orotund donations—“I will give you a story,” or “Mon vieux, I have been haunted by a dream” —and is always resoundingly theatrical: “The Sénateur’s chortle had progressed to a guffaw.”
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 21, 2016
"The dynasty of the house of Thornton must end to-day!" boomed Niles, in his best orotund.
From The Ramrodders A Novel by Holman Day
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