magniloquent

His magniloquent western name was the moral umbrella upon which he balanced the fine problem of his finances.

He and his magniloquent coach, George Karl, have almost come to blows, but they have also discussed taking a vacation together.

Ellenborough could not resist the temptation to copy Napoleon's magniloquent proclamation under the pyramids.

Also known as a notable orator, he professed himself a follower of Cicero, but his prose was certainly more magniloquent and less direct than Cicero's.

"Enter, Sons of the Stars," he said, in a magniloquent voice, "and deign to rest awhile in our humble habitations.

He can be savage or kindly, precise or magniloquent, iconoclastic or Mozartian, and he keeps pouring out compositions of all kinds.

Mr. Camp has a high old time portraying Gerald rather as John Barrymore might have, as a magniloquent grandstander dissolving into a rueful whiskey haze.

Spurred to achievement by the magniloquent "greater glory of God," they often operated most in accord with their stated ideals when influenced by the more lowly "help of souls."

--So preaches magniloquent Philosophism her Redeunt Saturnia regna.

His speaking style is prim where Mr. Clifford's was magniloquent; his voice is reedy and sing-song where Mr. Clifford's was a deep, near-hypnotic near-whisper.

Euripides: The famous tragic poet, whose mythical heroes often appear on stage in shabby dress, he is a frequent target in later plays and he appears here as a magniloquent hoarder of disreputable costumes.

In 1944, Michael Sadleir noted that "For magniloquent descriptions of 'horrid' episodes, for sheer stylistic fervour in the handling of the supernatural, the work can rank high among its contemporaries."

In the spring of 2010, Anthelion commenced recording their new songs and resolved to write music more magniloquent than Bloodshed Rebefallen as they wanted to demonstrate a different atmosphere within their new material.

From out of the mists of the 1960's comes P. F. Sloan, who made surf music with the Fantastic Baggies, produced hits for the Turtles and wrote the magniloquent, all-purpose folk-rock protest song "Eve of Destruction."

The magniloquent baroque appearance that the Villa Contarini displays today is, in all probability, the result of the seventeenth-century transformation of a villa designed by Andrea Palladio in the 1540s for Paolo Contarini and his brothers.

For example, earlier this month, when Tyson showed up at the Las Vegas Sports Club to ride a stationary bicycle, the 57-year-old King sat astride a bicycle adjacent to the champion's and dutifully pedaled away, a picture worth a few thousand of King's magniloquent words.

He once rejected a small fee to compose a victory ode for the winner of a mule race (it was not a prestigious event) but, according to Aristotle, changed his mind when the fee was increased, resulting in this magniloquent opening: "Greetings, daughters of storm-footed horses!"

And the bird said to him in a harsh but magniloquent and majestic voice: "Too hardily, O filth of mankind, thou hast intruded on the peace of Ornava, isle that is sacred to the birds, and wantonly thou hast slain one of my subjects.

William Gass takes the risk, and it is no small achievement to make us take our bearings from Swift and Wyndham Lewis and those magniloquent sourpusses Louis-Ferdinand Celine and Samuel Beckett, ghosts who seem to hover, as James Joyce does too, over this novel.