Although this floweriness has been a stumbling-block for modern critics, its cliched familiarity suggests how influential it was in the nineteenth century. From Wordnik.com. [Contesting the Heterodoxy: Mrs. Hemans vs. Lord Byron] Reference
The floweriness actually complimented the coconut yogurt panna cotta I tried to make the other day not amazing, but pretty. From Wordnik.com. [Red Passionfruit | Baking Bites] Reference
It was just a little bit sour, in a good way -- tart enough to be a bit mouthwatering, to put a little sharp edge into the floweriness. From Wordnik.com. [A Garden of Memories: Histoires de Parfums Vert Pivoine] Reference
The tangy cheese cut the floweriness of the cake down to size, and Mr A&N finally found that he liked it enough to have slice after generous slice. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-07-01] Reference
At their best, these estates produce a clean, dry, cool-climate-style sparkling wine noticeable for its delicate fruitiness, lively acidity and floweriness. From Wordnik.com. [A Fine English Sparkle] Reference
Goldings are stereotypical hoppy aromas, mild and slightly grassy, with some spiciness; Hellertau are also mild, with more emphasis on the spiciness and a subtle floweriness. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-01-01] Reference
There were some of these beings that one apressed in flowery language (and even in those cases, the floweriness would vary) and others that one talked with in the simplest, bluntest terms. From Wordnik.com. [Way Station]
Aroma: the website claims aromas of caramel apple, heather, wildflower, and allspice; the apple is definitely present, I'm not getting the floweriness, but the earthiness is vaguely all-spice-ish and cumin-y but also bready and warm; dusty and roasty. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-09-01] Reference
The very language in which it is couched partakes of floweriness -- if we may be pardoned for coining a word to express our meaning; indeed, we strongly commend for perusal these elegant notices of the Press; the writers evidently have been influenced by national considerations; for they speak of what they have seen as those convinced that, although there may be several wax flower modellers, there is but one MRS. PEACHEY -- Her. From Wordnik.com. [The Royal Guide to Wax Flower Modelling] Reference
No flabbiness, no excessive floweriness just excellent poise, balance and flavour. From Wordnik.com. [thecookscottage] Reference
Many mail-order suppliers can deliver floweriness to your door in this grey and barren month. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference
Yet, from the first, amid all this floweriness, a touch or trace of that gloom is discernible. From Wordnik.com. [Greek Studies: a Series of Essays] Reference
March 4th, 2008 at 8: 41 am state farm insurance com … trampled Bernadine cleaving, floweriness surnames, …. From Wordnik.com. [MVN] Reference
There is a sweet sadness in the sight of such floweriness amidst such desolation; it seems the triumph of nature over the destructive power of man. From Wordnik.com. [Our Village] Reference
A clunky sentence rhythm is sometimes ruined entirely by repetition, and there is at times floweriness without a restraining economy, so that even explosions and executions lose their impact. From Wordnik.com. [Palestine Blogs aggregator] Reference
Good progress was made to the disgarlanding of themselves thus far; yet, an acutely civilized pair, the abruptness of the transition from floweriness to commonplace affected them both, Laetitia chiefly, as she had broken the pause, and she remarked: -- "I am really Constancy in my opinions.". From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith] Reference
These houses made the most of their seaward view, and there was a gayety and determined floweriness in their bits of garden ground; the small-paned high windows in the peaks of their steep gables were like knowing eyes that watched the harbor and the far sea-line beyond, or looked northward all along the shore and its background of spruces and balsam firs. From Wordnik.com. [The Return] Reference
"Your very good health," said Texas, who was somewhat embarrassed by what was regarded as Costigan’s "floweriness.". From Wordnik.com. [Judith of the Plains] Reference
But since I don't tend to verbal excess or floweriness in other ways, I think my use of hendiadys is at least partly a process of refinement: of figuring out whatever it is that I really mean and how to say it. From Wordnik.com. [Ferule & Fescue] Reference
Even apart from its interest as showing the tendency of men's minds in days when Science did actually tell them "fairy tales," the book is a delightful one in its English garb; for the language is as simple as if the author were speaking by word of mouth, and at the same time is pleasant, and not lacking a certain quaint floweriness, which makes it all the easier to retain the subject-matter of the book. From Wordnik.com. [Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus] Reference
A few tall firs climbing above the roof gave a little grace and clothing to its southern side, and behind it there was a garden sloping softly down toward the village at its foot -- a garden chiefly noticeable for its grass walks, the luxuriance of the fruit trees clinging to its old red wars, and the masses of pink and white phloxes which now in August gave it the floweriness and the gayety of an Elizabethan song. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Elsmere] Reference
A few tall firs climbing above the roof gave a little grace and clothing to its southern side, and behind it there was a garden sloping softly down towards the village at its foot -- a garden chiefly noticeable for its grass walks, the luxuriance of the fruit trees clinging to its old red walls, and the masses of pink and white phloxes which now in August gave it the floweriness and the gaiety of an Elizabethan song. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Elsmere] Reference
I could imagine a delicate poem shutting up half its sweetness from his cold, cold scrutiny, -- if you will excuse the floweriness of the idea. ". From Wordnik.com. [A Chance Acquaintance] Reference
A prettiness or a floweriness of style. From Wordnik.com. [James B. Eads] Reference
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