How To Use Orotund In A Sentence
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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
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Viewers baffled by these moments, not to mention the orotund tones and rolled R's of theatrical elocution, will probably welcome the subtitles.
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Australia is an orotund supporter at the agriculture with is a member of.
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Yes, Will's prose is more orotund and the moral is more delicately unfurled.
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Opinions divide very sharply indeed on the question of whether Hanks is funny in the orotund, actor-manager-ish role of Dorr.
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He regularly finds the line between oratory and orotundity and crosses it.
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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.
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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.
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I, as the narrator want to sound clever, be orotund, and use words that you may not normally use.
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‘We all know,’ she says, adopting a mocking, orotund tone, ‘that dance is important.’
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It is banal, orotund, unmusical, and stuffed with wads of unnecessary jargon.
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Sam Tsoutsouvas, as Theseus, flaunts his habitual love affair with his overripe voice with an orotundity that reeks of self-adulation.
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While not exactly an inflammatory call to arms, it reminded us perfectly of their pair's gorgeously orotund sound.
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Kipling uses the orotund, elaborate language of Hindi courtesy to provide the ritual punctuation for the longer stories.
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At the other extreme is Vienna, with his sadistic relish and orotund vernacular.
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As we noted several months ago, orotund, abstract language can obfuscate accountability, truth-telling, and as we're now seeing most clearly, the simple facing of reality.
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There, speaking in orotund tones, the Court announces that ‘Liberty finds no refuge in a jurisprudence of doubt.’
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Johnson in terms emulous of the great doctor's orotundity and ronderosity.
Literature and Life (Complete)
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An orotund Tory in pinstripes boomed out that he never expected to see the day when he would stand shoulder to shoulder with Tatchell and cry revolution.
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I greatly feared - and still slightly do fear - that this creature presages a descent into a fantasy nerdfest of Tolkienesque pomposity and orotundity.
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There is a curious historical paradox that dictates declarations of crisis should always be written in slow, orotund prose that declares emergency and demands urgency but does so at the slowest possible pace and with maximum ambiguity.
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Nay, Mr Urquhart,' said Dalziel with a fulsome orotundity, `I'd be real sorry to think I'd left you in any doubt about that.
CASCADES - THE DAY OF THE DEAD
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A contemporary critic of Tacitism even observed that Tacitus's prose style sounded like the clipped commands of a soldier, quite different from the orotund and peaceful prose of Cicero.
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Namely, she regards her father as an orotund megalomaniacal monkey.
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As we noted several months ago, orotund, abstract language can obfuscate accountability, truth-telling, and as we're now seeing most clearly, the simple facing of reality.
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When more emotion was needed, the volume was turned up, or the elocution became more orotund.
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They could therefore rely more on an orotund voice when the circumstances required competence, confidence, and enthusiasm early in the interaction.
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Pretentious maybe, but it is still rather fun in its orotund syllables.
