Word: sesquipedalian
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...MAIN object of an evening at Pops-at least in theory-is to hear the music. The Heliconian strains of this celestial band flow sweetly to the ears of the listener, enveloping him in a rapture which has led more loquacious critics to rampant excess of sesquipedalian verbiage. The night I attended, however, must have been the Muse's night off, for the music seemed more a product of Hades than Halicon...
...rheumy eyes of a bloodhound, the jowls of a St. Bernard and a baldachin of white hair like that of an extraordinarily unkempt poodle. His face, reporters joked, looked as if it had been slept in. When he spoke, there issued forth a sesquipedalian vocabulary, diapasonal sounds like a Hammond organ in dense fog. His performances had a consciously archaic quality about them. He satirized fustian while indulging in it. His senatorial solemnity was a species of burlesque. He belonged in a Chautauqua rather than a McLuhan age, although he became a master of television performing. His manner, leavened...
...DICK CAVETT SHOW (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). The sesquipedalian savant of the talk shows takes on Jimi Hendrix and The Jefferson Airplane...
...geodesic domes, and practically everything else in the universe. Still, he managed. "I have not learned how or why the universe contrived to implode and intellectually code the myriadly unique, chromosomically orchestrated DNA-RNA, quadripartite moleculed, binary-paired, helically extended, and unzippingly dichotomied, regenerative symphonic jazz," he admitted^ in sesquipedalian Fullerese. In fact, "I am the most unlearned man I know." He did feel wise enough, however, to offer one small generalization: "It takes two to make a baby, but it takes God to make...
When not talking about everything and anything, he is writing about it-in language that can only be described as a sesquipedalian fractured English all his own. A sample sentence, from Page One of a recent autobiographical sketch about his boyhood, begins...