Ostentatiously lofty in style.
(Of sounds) full and rich.
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Examples for "large "
1 Conclusions: Foodborne diseases result in a large disease burden, particularly in children.
2 She said it was disturbing given the large number of reported cases.
3 Polish authorities, however, said the risk of large scale flooding had receded.
4 Furthermore, HFMD often affects a large number of infants and young children.
5 There are large potential markets, off Europe, the United States and China.
1 His bombastic home minister has become a leading voice of the cabinet.
2 Birdman, the most recent best picture winner, was bombastic and technically innovative.
3 Sala in cross-examination said to Lockwood in a bombastic , inflated, Adelphi-drama style:
4 It moves with a livelier, more life-like rhythm; it is less bombastic .
5 He came out swinging hard again on his bombastic US presidential campaign.
1 There is nothing turgid in his dignity, nor superfluous in his copiousness.
2 But into the turgid down-sweep he headed with a newly conjured vigor.
3 Their turgid rhetoric and exaggerated pretence did not seem natural to him.
4 There was no sign of the puppy on the turgid grey surface.
5 The sea is dark and death-like, the air clammy, turgid , and steamy.
1 He worked his jaw, then spoke rhythmically in a different, declamatory voice.
2 His treatment of the hexameter exactly suits his declamatory type of satire.
3 He was by turns gay, melancholy, artless, tender, arch, courteous, and declamatory .
4 I won't have you making any more declamatory love-scenes, you dreadful boy!
5 There are declamatory political party manifestos, thundering newspaper editorials or vitriolic online comments.
1 They, indeed, ridiculed his action as theatrical, and his style as tumid .
2 But confound this tumid , queasy feeling-thisrestlessness, swelling, and heat-itwas jealousy!
3 I do not: I find them turgid and tumid no end.
4 Thomson grows tumid wherever he assays the grandiosity of his model.
5 More tumid rain-clouds were approaching fast from the east, borne by the obdurate breeze.
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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