Word: orotundly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...told. "I don't mind killing you. You better get back to your seat." Reported Eastland later: "I went right back and sat down." The gunman ordered Pilot Forrest Dines to fly to Cuba, but later tossed his .45 automatic on the cabin floor and surrendered. In an orotund senatorial non sequitur, Eastland said afterward that he saw no reason for changing his mind about guns. "It's all the Supreme Court's affair," he declared. "They make it possible for criminals to run wild...
GUMMIDGE: In other words, never say "In other words." That will force you to clarify your statements. Keep all pronunciamentos orotund and hazy. Suppose your mother comes to school and asks how you are doing. Do I reply: "He is at the bottom of his class-lazy and good-for-nothing...
...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...