Meanings of purple prose in English

While Animal Collective have attracted purple prose before, it was never on this scale.

Physical light deconstructed Wrixlan and Pithan, and each of the night terrors was written in purple prose.

You cannot get any effect by over writing, by purple prose, or by a plethora of adjectives.

Well, those pictures spoke volumes with graphic, profane, prurient, pornographic detail that no purple prose could compare with.

Tarting it up with the most abused squiggle in the English language only elevates it to purple prose.

Every inch of Nicodemus's arms and forearms burned with pain as the purple prose was ripped from him.

Daniels, in increasingly purple prose, began accusing Charabi of providing prewar tips, promises, and intelligence that weren't panning out.

For all the purple prose which has cushioned the starry emergence of hurling's new order, nothing much has changed around Kilkenny.

Many of my fellow critics, for instance, have greeted the new arrival with open arms, ticker-tape parades, unrestrained praise and new shades of purple prose.

Towards the end of the report of my finest purple prose, it was the custom to offer a few paragraphs of judgment on the game.

Depending on the season's colours, they could bill it as Purple Prose Evenings...