Word: polysyllabicism
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Since Kaye sings scat with the tonal inspiration of a New Orleans jazz band, he seldom uses the same polysyllabic sounds twice.
Mexico City's conservative newspaper Excelsior ran a daily polemic against the Big Three, topped off by an anonymous psychiatrist who diagnosed Rivera and Sequeiros, in all the polysyllabic gobbledygook of psychiatric lingo, as absolutely nuts. Rivera, he declared, was a paranoiac operating on a 120-150 day cycle...
"Nothing is more conducive to long-winded and stilted writing than the use of a formal, pedantic or polysyllabic substitute for the natural word or expression that first comes to mind. There will be occasions, relatively rare, when they will be wanted, quite legitimately, to convey a different shade of...
Stacked against, the run of U.S. films, Summer Storm is well above the ordinary. Stacked against the kind of European film it is trying to be, it is as distractingly uneven as a ride in a flat-wheeled streetcar. There are moments of remarkable sensitiveness to season, landscape, and the...
Wilson worked for the New York Sun, served overseas in World War I, was managing editor of the now-defunct Vanity Fair in 1920, associate editor of the New Republic from 1926 to 1931. Since then he has been writing the books that have made him the foremost intellectual'...