orotundity

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Mr. Dirden speaks with a majestic orotundity that evokes a preacher carrying around an invisible pulpit, and exudes a preening pomposity and the requisite vicious abusiveness toward Lucky.

From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 29, 2025

As the headmistress in “Riddance” says, recalling her girlhood, “My style was scarcely juvenile. If anything, it was senescent, with the gaseous orotundity of an earlier era.”

From The New Yorker • Oct. 24, 2018

Parkland survivor David Hogg’s speech captured this sentiment with both concision and a kind of charming orotundity that reminds us that he really is a novice—suddenly convinced, perhaps correctly, that he can change the world.

From Slate • Mar. 25, 2018

The book’s 400-odd pages of near-hysterical orotundity can roughly be broken down into the following sequence of propositions:

From The Guardian • Feb. 15, 2018

George W. Bush's presidency was straitjacketed by his inability to command any style but clenched orotundity.

From Time Magazine Archive