florid

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The inclusion of Mr. Dominé’s florid prose and his fellow citizens’ good manners are parts of what makes “Glitterball” a supremely creative example of creative documentary.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 17, 2026

Stewart has made an assured mess: a bleary, florid and sometimes lyrical film that could stand to be doused by a bucket of ice water.

From Los Angeles Times • May 23, 2025

A divine Gaga strapped into couture crutches and lit by soft blue gels and a single spotlight, with her yards-long white cape rising into the air and fanning against the opera house’s florid details.

From Salon • Apr. 16, 2025

He submitted a florid “Ode to Sport” under the pseudonymous pairing of “Georges Hohrod and Martin Eschbach,” the surnames borrowed from the names of French villages.

From New York Times • May 2, 2024

Yoyo and her sisters were forgetting a lot of their Spanish, and their father's formal, florid diction was hard to understand.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez