magniloquent

1 My feller directors"—the chairman waved a magniloquent hand—"agrees with me that the Rovers can offer you a pound a week because you are promisin', although not justified as you are at present.

2 He could get into the most surprising ecstasies about everything, and give utterance to the same in the most magniloquent words.

3 Boris Johnson has long spun political gold from his magniloquent tongue, using what some linguists and observers say bombastic language, esoteric vocabulary, occasional crudity and episodes of bumbling bluster.

4 Magnificent, magniloquent, turbulent, it is starred with glowing phrases as thickly as with glowing deeds.

5 If it be added that the poem was made to conclude with a magniloquent panegyric upon Louis XIV., the king could not fail to read it with visible signs of satisfaction.

6 Had he been called upon to write the document he would certainly have given something more terse and simple than that rotund and magniloquent instrument which Jefferson bequeathed to the unbounded admiration of American posterity.

7 According to his own magniloquent phrase, he was 'exceptionally happy.'

8 This is an age of critical enquiry; commonplace twaddling, inane generalities, and magniloquent essays and lectures, even if delivered by professors who enjoy the happiness of presiding over Roman colleges, only excite derision.

9 After this magniloquent address the poor animals were trundled out by the other gate to have their throats cut.

10 And that George Throckmorton is a high-toned gentleman”—General Temple paused a little before saying this, hunting for a term magniloquent enough for the occasion—“no one, I think, will deny.”

11 The Southerners, who had been on the point of running away when the Northerners anticipated them in so doing, now triumphed immoderately, and uttered boastings magniloquent enough for Homeric heroes.

12 A poor old negress becomes, in the hands of the Jupiter of the Museum, the nurse of Washington; after that, can you marvel at the magniloquent titles coupled with my name?

13 Let no one expect a stage Spaniard, with the air of a matador or a guerrillero, who wears only picturesque and outlandish costumes, and speaks only magniloquent Castilian.

14 For many a year, a copy of Young's mournful, magniloquent poem, bound in morocco and gilt-edged, was reckoned one of the most acceptable and worthy gifts to a person in affliction.

15 Indeed he gained accession, for after this he talked often to me of France in his magniloquent way, until I began secretly to be ashamed of being English.

16 The cavalry pressed forward without halting and reached the hills above James City—a magniloquent name, but the "city" was a small affair—a mere village nestling down amid an amphitheatre of hills.

17 Its use had to be learnt from French masters of deportment; the old magniloquent Italo-Spanish rapier jargon was forgotten; French terms, barbarized into carte, tierce, sagoon, flanquonade, and so forth, were alone understood.

18 In spite of the most magniloquent orations, he saw that his power was nearly gone.

19 Mr. Coetzee’s new novel, “The Childhood of Jesus,” begins like a homage to a book from another writer who works the stern and magniloquent side of the tracks: “The Road,” by Cormac McCarthy.

20 Yet we must own you master Of the magnificent and magniloquent.

1 言过其实的

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2 夸张

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3 夸大

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4 自负

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5 夸张的

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6 自负的

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7 华而不实

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8 吹牛

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9 吹牛的

mouthy rodomontade vaporing blowhard braggart windy bouncing swanky blown-up gascon tooting tinhorn

10 华而不实的

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11 言过其实

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12 夸大的

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