orotund

• “Principal among such figures employed by amateurs are the long complex metaphors and similes in which epic poetry delights; the figure of apostrophe, too, is much affected by tyros, because it affords them opportunity to coin orotund phrases concerning the irony of fate, the haplessness of true lovers, and kindred favorite topics.”

  Short Story Writing A Practical Treatise on the Art of The Short Story

• “Yet France is rarely averse to padding out sentences with an unnecessary "perforce" or "hitherto"; and it's hard not to conclude that within this orotund, romantic novel there's a much leaner, more elliptical account of agrarian angst fighting to get out.”

  The Guardian: Hill Farm by Miranda France – review

• “Many translations of his work into English exist, from the slightly orotund, Victorian versions composed by the Bengali Nobel poet-laureate Rabindranath Tagore in the early 20th century to the Americanized versions in the 1980s produced by the poet Robert Bly.”

  The Wall Street Journal: When Mysticism Came Down to Earth

• “His mid-20th-century senators certainly speak better than those serving today, most of whom, during debate, could scarcely pronounce, let alone deploy, its orotund courtesies and barbs.”

  A young reader discovers the meaning of paranoia in the political novels of Allen Drury

• “He shouted and whispered, swooped from orotund formality to gutter lingo, mashing Sanskrit with flapper slang always in confident pronouncements and warnings: "The safety valve of this age for repressed, suppressed emotion is hooch, sex and drugs," he declared in 1927.”

  The Wall Street Journal: 'The Great Oom'

• “Hortensius went next and did his best, but those great orotund purple passages for which he was so famous belonged to another setting—and, in truth, another era.”

  Simon & Schuster: CONSPIRATA

• “I know you enjoy orotund grandiloquence and righteous insult.”

  On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...

• “You have said with finality what needed to be said about the ignorant, misleading, bloated, orotund, bombastic phrase-making of Edgar and Daley.”

  Bill Sweetland: Education in Chicago: Reason to Cheer: Common Sense About Schools From Thinking Observers

• “Oscar revelled in the orotund, slightly archaic turns of phrase the actor employed.”

  Simon & Schuster: Oscar Wilde and the Dead Man’s Smile

• “But Henry, even in white tie, rotund and orotund, always had a twinkle in his eye.”

  Simon & Schuster: American Sketches

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