Word: floridation
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While few have expressed feelings in the florid language that Gomes used at the party last week, some administrators say the College will suffer without Lewis...
...speedy conclusion is the U.S. objective, for Saddam the opposite is true. Despite his florid rhetoric, he's well aware that his army cannot stop the Americans and their allies from taking control of most of Iraq. It may be, of course, that Saddam recognizes the inevitability of his doom and plans to go out in a blaze of chemical- and biological- explosions aimed at taking as many of his enemies with him as he can. But his handling of the confrontation until now suggests his goal may instead be to try to slow or stop the U.S. advance...
When the English language was planted in South Asia, who knew it would bloom with such fecundity? From the riots of Salman Rushdie to the florid sagas of Vikram Seth and the humid prose of Arundhati Roy, much of the best subcontinental writing has embraced a hothouse style, the kind of Victorian grandness long forgotten by the English themselves. When the empire wrote back, it was never at a loss for words...
...movie forebears, nor does it have the subtlety or layers of The Sopranos. (These might be unfair comparisons if Kingpin didn't so showily invite them.) In typical network style, Kingpin's characters let you know precisely what they're thinking, either in workmanlike soap speak or the florid language of banditos from a late-night western ("I have seen the flames of hell! I have swam through rivers of blood!"). The Mexican characters speak a thickly accented English laced with Spanish--"Gracias!" "De nada!"--as if to remind us we are not in Milwaukee...
...them with intelligence to help them do just that. The best hope of the Arab and European governments hoping to avoid a war may soon rest on their ability to coax Saddam into the somewhat unlikely scenario of a cozy retirement somewhere in the Gulf, penning more of his florid political romance novels...