Word: orotundities
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...Commonwealth are upheld by members of the University -- and I'm sure that residents of the Houses would surrender more gracefully to the inevitable if the problem were stated unequivocally. But why in heaven's name must anyone haul in "love and last" and a lot of other orotund phrases which are quite beside the point? I find it both annoying and presumptuous for anyone to attempt legislating my moral attitudes; it's quite another matter, however, to be required to adhere to an unadorned legal norm...
Even those who just like to soss ("sit lazily in a chair'') will notice what a fine, manly style of address Johnsonian English really is. Johnsonian English, which has come to mean a sonorous and orotund Latinity of style, anfractuously embellished with dependent clauses like the marble ornaments of a baroque memorial in a Wren church, was as close to the farmyard, the tavern and the brawling life of London streets as it was to the Latin grammar...
Nation's Spearhead. The philosophy behind the S.A.O. is a muddle of authoritarian, imperialist and populist ideas. S.A.O. propaganda is the sort often found in flights from reality?orotund, florid, declamatory, and so ecstatic as to approach hysteria. Communists delight in identifying themselves historically with Spartacus and his slave revolt; the S.A.O. officers see themselves as Roman legionnaires holding off the Red barbarians on the marches of empire and sending back semaphore messages warning Rome?or rather, Paris?to "beware of the anger of the Legions!" A typical S.A.O. manifesto recalls French soldiers fallen in colonial wars: "Our dreams...
...pounded the kitchen table, a big man with big gestures under a half-acre of black curls. He looked like a big basset hound who had just eaten W. C. Fields, his expression a melange of smugness, mischievousness, humility, humor, guilt, pride, warmth, confidence, perplexity, and orotund, bug-eyed naivete...
What had Galváo hoped to accomplish by his seizure of the Santa Maria? In his own orotund phrasing, he declared: "We desired to prove, and we did prove, that Dictator Salazar is not invulnerable. We beat him and we ridiculed him-him and his navy-before the entire free and Christian world. Tomorrow, when and wherever we face him, we will beat him once more." What Galváo proposed for Portugal was "land for those who work it and a house for those who live in it. We will liquidate large landed estates as we will liquidate...