orotund

How To Use orotund In A Sentence

• indeed, in its orotund grandiosity, its declamatory incoherence, its choliambic grandeur, and its unedited seediness, it threatens to leave me fixed here in speechlessness, gaping. Making Light: Rowling's being sued for plagiarism again
• Viewers baffled by these moments, not to mention the orotund tones and rolled R's of theatrical elocution, will probably welcome the subtitles.
• Australia is an orotund supporter at the agriculture with is a member of.
• Yes, Will's prose is more orotund and the moral is more delicately unfurled.
• Opinions divide very sharply indeed on the question of whether Hanks is funny in the orotund, actor-manager-ish role of Dorr.
• He regularly finds the line between oratory and orotundity — and crosses it.
• This is all right in conversation, hut a little of it goes a long way on the printed page. if he had had a tighter editor, Lord Jenkins might also have been prodded to be less orotund in a few places.
• Watson's orotund voice is complemented by swooning strings, lush orchestration and gloriously cheery tempi, conjuring the Med, lemon trees and a large dollop of la dolce vita straight into your living room.
• I, as the narrator want to sound clever, be orotund, and use words that you may not normally use.
• ‘We all know,’ she says, adopting a mocking, orotund tone, ‘that dance is important.’