It is wise and observant yet overwrought, edging into grandiloquence and improbability, the emotional drama artificially thickened by images and metaphors that are inflated and not especially fresh.
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Because Ben once made his living with words, he can summon up a certain slurred grandiloquence or toss off scathingly funny one-liners, usually at his own expense.
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McCarthy, who can go places in prose as remote as a mountain pass in high wind, is also prone to grandiloquence, particularly when he's waxing mystical.
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Behind the church lies the cemetery where the grave of Trocme ( he died in 1971 ), his wife and various relatives is marked by a tombstone bereft of grandiloquence.
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Its appeal was apparent, and as England's empire and self-image grew in the 19th century, so did the grandiloquence of " Messiah ."
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From the point of view of style, the poet's work is marked by his simplicity, distant from the grandiloquence and the metrical structure of the neoclassic poets.
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If grandiloquence alone is enough to make a leader, then America will have to deal with the " reality " of Louis Farrakhan for a long time to come.
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The most important Republican congressman behind Newt Gingrich, Armey says with Andromedan grandiloquence that " in a free society, fair government is one that treats everybody the same ."
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Afterward, Yeltsin, with typical grandiloquence, said the summit had " a tremendous, perhaps even historic importance, because we're determining the fate of the 21st century ."
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Can this apparently completely made-up expression be explained by editorial penchant for alliteration, euphony and irrelevant grandiloquence, or is there more to the story that is not revealed in my research?
