Significats de too florid en anglès

He was an artist, but too florid, too decadent in his decorations.

Don't you think all that is a little too florid?

Were the flower children-cum-yuppies going to cart her off for an imagination gone too florid?

He made, I must say, an excellent speech; too florid and queer, but decidedly successful.

He remembered that the politeness seemed too elaborate, too florid, altiloquent to the extent of insincerity.

Beside him Ridgway bulked too large, too florid.

Several contemporary judges pronounced it too florid.

Let not your politeness he too florid, but of that gentle kind which indicates a refined nature.

The last had a very brilliant career as an orator, although his orations were too florid to be read.

The last had a very brilliant career as an orator, though his orations were too florid to be read.

They were a very handsome race, at least the men; the women were too florid and buxom for my taste.

The fine modern stained glass is worthy of notice, but the recent additions are in poor taste and too florid a style.

His style was often too florid and his Latin quotations, though excellent in themselves, were not suited to the taste of his audiences.

Time, however, toned his too florid sense of costume, and we should at any rate be thankful that his imagination never deserted him.

It is not too florid to argue that effective machinery to investigate and deracinate corruption is at the heart of a fair and functioning democracy.

He preached a very queer sermon-theformer half too familiar and the latter half too florid, but not without some ingenuity of thought and expression.