Word: polysyllabicism
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O'Brien's anarchic foray against the foolishness of fact begins with a university student who is trying to write a realistic novel between courses at the National University. It is a glum, pompously polysyllabic work which gets out of hand because the main character is Dermot Trellis...
The most modern of literary conventions, of fairly recent approval, permits sexual play or sexual passion to be described in lavish detail, in four-letter as well as polysyllabic words, in fiction. But a certain reticence and circumlocution, for obvious reasons, is still demanded in the public prints, on radio...
The polysyllabic title in the American College of Surgeons program was obviously designed to be provocative: "What Is Exciting in Gynecologic Endocrinology?" But his confreres suddenly sat up when Gynecologist Robert W. Kistner blurted: "We are keeping women around too long-they should all be dead soon after age 45...
Mounting a lavish display of props, costumery and lighting effects, the Phoenix production camouflages the entire metaphysical tragedy and smothers the tensions in Marlowe's imagination, which was fearfully and longingly obsessed by the Christianity that his intelligence scoffed at and rejected. The cast gargles "Marlowe's mighty...
Many things can go wrong with so complex and delicate a piece of machinery, and most kidney diseases have forbiddingly polysyllabic names. The majority of them end in -ids, meaning that the affected part of the kidney is inflamed. The others end in -osis, meaning that there is something wrong...