magniloquence

1 One need only recall the volume of overbearing magniloquence that broke out all over the place in that beginning, when The Day was believed to be dawning.

2 Not all of us are blessed with your magniloquence.”

3 He was simple and unaffected in his manners, and never assumed any magniloquence because of his exalted position.

4 But these nuggets feel so precision-engineered to showcase Smith’s hard-earned self-awareness that they appear trite, even insincere, when juxtaposed with his riotous magniloquence.

5 he's prone to fits of maudlin magniloquence when he's drunk

6 The passages of Bracciolini were properly pronounced to be florid at times, and to bear resemblance to the high-flown magniloquence of Chateaubriand rather than the classic staidness of Tacitus.

7 However, Johnson's attempt to appease him was a curious specimen of his magniloquence.

8 "Your honour!" this word has something flattering to the ear, something full of magniloquence; "your honour!"

9 Nevertheless, the Sultan detected a shade of hesitation in spite of the magniloquence of this refusal.

10 Possibly I should explain, too, the apparent magniloquence of the phrase describing golf as a "fact of real national importance."

11 But it is a complete mistake to suppose that he always wore that heavy armour of magniloquence.

12 You speak of her with the magniloquence of a poet and the feeling of a troubadour.

13 Hammy magniloquence risks alienating viewers, not just for an evening but for life, as does obscurity.

14 Look at the world, Mr. Langham!' she, said with bright cheeks, half smiling at her own magniloquence, her hand waving over the view before them.

15 At 61, he could speak with the avuncular magniloquence of a professor emeritus; instead, he layers on supporting data like a star pupil seeking an A-plus.

16 That was the weak spot in Johnson on which the wits and critics seized at once: there is a good deal of misplaced magniloquence in his writings.

17 Emotion and magniloquence throw a wrench into truth.

感情用事和夸夸其谈只能阻碍对真理的追求。

18 These simple words are infinitely more impressive than the magniloquence of the epitaph which Johnson wrote on Goldsmith.

19 "I should not think it right, and therefore let there be an end of it," said George in a tone of voice which had in it something of magniloquence.

20 "You owe nothing to me," said Plantagenet, with some little touch of magniloquence in his tone.

1 夸张

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2 华而不实

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3 吹牛

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4 大话

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5 虚夸

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6 言过其实

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