magniloquence

Society will pity her in ostentatious magniloquence, which is far worse than contempt or neglect; perhaps it will clothe her with silk and diamonds; but it will never treat her as it would not dare not to treat any lady whom it felt its equal.

The American Missionary — Volume 43, No. 12, December, 1889 Various

Nothing could seem farther from the book-fueled magniloquence of Mr. Conroy than the deft, suggestive, almost feline approach of the outstanding English novelist Susan Hill to her most treasured titles.

The Life Well-Read Eric Ormsby 2011

With economical and, by now, expected magniloquence, Adams shows how art not only extracts meaning from the chaos of daily life but also engenders a thirst for if not appreciation of the spirit of perfection, which, here, is nothing more than awareness of the gap between our mortal span and the timelessness of stars.

James Scarborough: Lisa Adams and the Spirituality of Imperfection James Scarborough 2011

With economical and, by now, expected magniloquence, Adams shows how art not only extracts meaning from the chaos of daily life but also engenders a thirst for if not appreciation of the spirit of perfection, which, here, is nothing more than awareness of the gap between our mortal span and the timelessness of stars.

James Scarborough: Lisa Adams and the Spirituality of Imperfection James Scarborough 2011

His political thinking and Marxist error are intertwined like copulating serpents but worse still his autistic magniloquence hides a cynical use of public money for electoral purposes.

Archive 2007-05-13 Newmania 2007

His political thinking and Marxist error are intertwined like copulating serpents but worse still his autistic magniloquence hides a cynical use of public money for electoral purposes.

And Now The End is Near ........... Newmania 2007

Without his vanity and his magniloquence it is possible that he might never have acquired the sonorous elocution which is so useful and even necessary an instrument in political life.

Modeste Mignon 2007

His political thinking and Marxist error are intertwined like copulating serpents but worse still his autistic magniloquence hides a cynical use of public money for electoral purposes.

Gordon Brown Celebrity Watch 2007

But the rara avis among dramatists, is he who possesses the tragic species, and not the epic; for any one conversant with the English stage, from Shakspeare downwards, will easily perceive that almost all our dramatic writers mistake the epic for the tragic vein of magniloquence; * now, the Author of the

Review 2005

Saint – Germain, where every one contributes his or her quota of absurdity, and where these particular forms of exaggerated speech and affected diction — magniloquence, if you please to call it so — are surrounded by excessive luxury and sumptuous toilettes, which are to some extent their excuse, were certain to be far more noticed in the provinces, whose own absurdities are of

Modeste Mignon 2007