euphuistic

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.

This has made art pre-Raphaelite, and poetry euphuistic.

He was buried among his ancestors in the church of San Pedro M�rtir, in Toledo, "where every stone in the city is his monument," wrote the euphuistic G�ngora.

The euphuistic and sentimental Richard gives a fair field for the stylist, but his example is infectious, and the Queen, Gaunt, York, Bolingbroke, the gardener, and in fact all the persons of the drama, employ word-play, periphrasis, and the various flourishes of Elizabethan rhetorical style.

This part is written in a euphuistic, rhapsodical vein, and affords an indication of the saturation of Urquhart's mind with the style of Rabelais.