Adjective : fulsome praise that embarrassed her deeply; fulsome décor. ,a table heaped with fulsome mounds of greasy foods. ,fulsome admiration. ,a fulsome survey of the political situation in Central America. From Dictionary.com.
In short: a man who's fulsomeness, is fulsomely described. From Wordnik.com. [Jason Linkins: Murdoch, by Definition] Reference
The city, though without the fulsomeness of Babylon, had opened its gates at once. From Wordnik.com. [The Persian Boy]
The jade's fulsomeness had so tir'd me that I began to devise which was to get off. From Wordnik.com. [The Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter] Reference
Even fulsomeness, when the heart is in it, does not disgust the just man like sycophancy. From Wordnik.com. [The Mask of Apollo]
Some people will love all that writerly fulsomeness; others might admire the writers vision, but long for more room to breathe. From Wordnik.com. [BookBrowse Previews April Books] Reference
A cursory reading of Jaroslav Pelikan's brilliant Mary Through the Centuries will acquaint any reader with the fulsomeness of such debates. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-01-01] Reference
The Times piece does an outstanding job at clarifying the gains Murdoch has historically made by working that third definition of fulsomeness. From Wordnik.com. [Jason Linkins: Murdoch, by Definition] Reference
HAGEL: Well, there is little question about the fulsomeness of Bob Kerrey's courage, his patriotism, his heroism, his leadership, putting others first. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 29, 2001] Reference
Turks of all sorts, men and women, and all over Greece, and those hot countries; to absterge belike that fulsomeness of sweat, to which they are there subject. From Wordnik.com. [Anatomy of Melancholy] Reference
The Chancellor's sense of proportion is curious, but may perhaps be condoned as of a piece with the fulsomeness of the day. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon — Volume 02] Reference
The burial is reported with a certain fulsomeness of expression characteristic of the Scriptures in recording notable events. From Wordnik.com. [Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1] Reference
If this were flattery, tone and manner robbed it of fulsomeness, rendered it subtle beyond the coarser perceptions of the man. From Wordnik.com. [The False Faces Further Adventures from the History of the Lone Wolf] Reference
Brits, in their odiously patronizing way, tend to think of hyperbole, effusiveness, and fulsomeness as peculiarly American vices. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VII No 2] Reference
When the Imperial government was established the old regicide made himself conspicuous even among the crowd of flatterers by the peculiar fulsomeness of his adulation. From Wordnik.com. [Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3)] Reference
When the Imperial government was established, the old regicide made himself conspicuous even among the crowd of flatterers by the peculiar fulsomeness of his adulation. From Wordnik.com. [Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 2] Reference
If I have formed too severe an estimate of Mr. Darwin's work and character -- and this is more than likely -- the fulsomeness of the adulation lavished on him by his admirers for many years past must be in some measure my excuse. From Wordnik.com. [Luck or Cunning?] Reference
Phillips had made allowances then for the spell of a first-night enthusiasm and had prepared himself for a rude awakening this morning -- he had seen too many plays fail, to put much faith in the fulsomeness of first-nighters -- but the words of the doorman carried conviction. From Wordnik.com. [Laughing Bill Hyde and Other Stories] Reference
In a spirit of humility I desire to avoid all expressions of fulsomeness when speaking of their lives and last moments, though it might be said that those who were at the death-bed of either, and saw them in their last hours, would have been willing to have left all to exchange places with them. From Wordnik.com. [Gathering Jewels The Secret of a Beautiful Life: In Memoriam of Mr. & Mrs. James Knowles. Selected from Their Diaries.] Reference
But now the praefect, with that harsh, pitiless voice of his, was actually ordering the girl to be sold in the usual way, with all her merits exhibited to the likely purchaser: her golden hair -- a perfect glory -- to tempt the artistic eye, her skill recounted in fulsomeness, her cleverness with the needle, her knowledge of healing herbs. From Wordnik.com. ["Unto Caesar"] Reference
"He wrote of me first with such fulsomeness that the truth stank like a lie. From Wordnik.com. [The Persian Boy]
Vogelstein's arrogance melted once more into fulsomeness as he said, almost forgetting his Goodnight to us, "I'm sure it's very good of you. From Wordnik.com. [The Collectors] Reference
Oh so familiar the smile on your face – it is no surprise your lips narrate a fulsomeness which radiates from graceful ardent eyes there is no space for angst or cracking discontent, your smile was meant for mending fences where raw anger rendered saddened states of disrepair again I am consumed with it, a love attuned to it, the air of and the wear of it etched unrepentantly in the sheer magnanimity of you how utterly you beguile!. From Wordnik.com. [How Utterly You Beguile (rev)] Reference
This fulsomeness!. From Wordnik.com. [The Minister's Charge] Reference
Mesue saith, is hot in the second degree, and dry in the third, it is commonly taken in wine, whey, or as with us, the juice of two or three leaves or more sometimes, pounded in posset drink qualified with a little liquorice, or aniseed, to avoid the fulsomeness of the taste, or as Diaserum Fernelii. From Wordnik.com. [Anatomy of Melancholy] Reference
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