Ostentatiously lofty in style.
(Of sounds) full and rich.
1 Mrs. Hallam was sitting in orotund silence, but seemed in good humour.
2 Always an orotund man, he has the Chautauqua manner indeed in this exigency.
3 Obediently, the fanatic began to mouth Holy Writ in orotund .
4 Perhaps the orotund soul-wamblings of Coleridge are recarnate in him, Scawfell become Mount Tom.
5 Then he turned and pointed, no longer the orotund zealot but the expectant captain now.
6 Use orotund expressions to obfuscate your intentions.
7 My own voice, orotund sweeping and final.
8 He was orotund , a courtly gent who departed to his club just after six every editing evening.
9 The following example requires the union of declamatory force, low pitch, slow rate, monotone, and orotund quality:-
10 The use of the orotund voice varies according to the intensity of the thought and feeling being expressed.
11 I assumed an exaggerated imitation of Dromanus' most grandiloquent manner and in his orotund unctuous delivery I declaimed:
12 To match a short vowel to an orotund concert note for two beats and a "hold" was impossible.
13 The voice came again, this time uncoupled from whatever mechanisms made it so orotund , and it seemed to falter and become human.
14 The father of Seneca had a school of oratory where rich Roman youths were taught to mouth in orotund and gesticulate in curves.
15 The effectiveness of the orotund might be somewhat reduced if the audience knew the conscious mechanical processes which went to make it up.
16 Through the entire three hours, introducing the famous and the unknown with equal ease, came the mellow yet never orotund flow of Gregg's voice.
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