It was difficult to listen to the magniloquent speaker especially after finding out that the gift was rescinded. From LearnThat.org.
MACDONALD is magniloquent, perhaps a bit thrasonical. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, February 28, 1891] Reference
You will find men who are very turgid and magniloquent at five-and-thirty, at forty, at fifty. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 46, August, 1861] Reference
The Germans in front of our Division were so cowed by our magniloquent display of gunnery that they have remained moderately quiet ever since. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures of a Despatch Rider] Reference
The turn from the somewhat magniloquent dissertation to the parties immediately interested -- the gentle disposing, between injunction and persuasion, of. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845] Reference
I think John M's observation that there's a parallel with the mass hysteria that Hilter stirred up with his manic but magniloquent speeches is not so far of the mark. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
It then looked rather magniloquent for a work so humble as ours; but there was promise in it, and prophecy, and nothing less would satisfy either our Chinese brethren or myself. From Wordnik.com. [The American Missionary — Volume 44, No. 01, January, 1890] Reference
Massachusetts by far the most violently magniloquent. From Wordnik.com. [North America — Volume 1] Reference
Paul interrupted him with a magniloquent wave of the hand. From Wordnik.com. [Caught in the Net] Reference
Rather a magniloquent term, perhaps, but what else am I to say?. From Wordnik.com. [Anna the Adventuress] Reference
According to his own magniloquent phrase, he was 'exceptionally happy.'. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning]
He used to insert very pompous and magniloquent sentences in his themes, much to. From Wordnik.com. [Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2] Reference
In spite of the most magniloquent orations, he saw that his power was nearly gone. From Wordnik.com. [Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 426 Volume 17, New Series, February 28, 1852] Reference
The actor delivered a magniloquent monologue, peppered with metaphors and obscure words. From Wordnik.com. [Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day] Reference
It has come to be the mode to express the most simple thought in the most magniloquent phrase. From Wordnik.com. [The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, June 1844 Volume 23, Number 6] Reference
It might be that the sonorous, and, if I may so express myself, magniloquent phraseology in which. From Wordnik.com. [The Struggles of Brown, Jones, and Robinson By One of the Firm] Reference
It has a majestically magniloquent 27-page marketing booklet, which shouldn't even be called a booklet. From Wordnik.com. [Home | The New York Observer] Reference
August 26th, 2009 It all started off as a wavelet and eventually transcended as magniloquent sensation. From Wordnik.com. [Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7] Reference
Blushing and trembling, I read my verses aloud in as resonant and magniloquent a voice as I could command. From Wordnik.com. [Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography] Reference
Magnificent, magniloquent, turbulent, it is starred with glowing phrases as thickly as with glowing deeds. From Wordnik.com. [A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume III (of 4)] Reference
His magniloquent western name was the moral umbrella upon which he balanced the fine problem of his finances. From Wordnik.com. [Dubliners] Reference
It is still the Klopstockian strain of magniloquent religiosity, tempered somewhat by the influence of Haller. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller] Reference
They are indeed one and the same, two groups of magniloquent ideologues who only pretend to agree to disagree. From Wordnik.com. [Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local] Reference
After this magniloquent address the poor animals were trundled out by the other gate to have their throats cut. From Wordnik.com. [Cetywayo and his White Neighbours Remarks on Recent Events in Zululand, Natal, and the Transvaal] Reference
October 10th, 2009 If you were all enthralled watching the magniloquent 'City of God', here's a Desi version on it. From Wordnik.com. [Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7] Reference
Those of New York and Pennsylvania are the least so, and that of Massachusetts by far the most violently magniloquent. From Wordnik.com. [North America] Reference
This it is that more than excuses, it glorifies, his repeated magniloquent allusions to himself throughout the prose works. From Wordnik.com. [Milton] Reference
He carried into the bookselling craft somewhat of the grandiose manner of the stage, and was prone to be mouthy and magniloquent. From Wordnik.com. [Oliver Goldsmith A Biography] Reference
James City -- a magniloquent name, but the "city" was a small affair -- a mere village nestling down amid an amphitheatre of hills. From Wordnik.com. [Mohun, or, the Last Days of Lee] Reference
Here is found the prose character of Shakespere which, if less magniloquent than that in verse, has a greater touch of sheer sincerity. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Elizabethan Literature] Reference
Lamb's verses were always good, steady, and firm, and void of those magniloquent commonplaces which so clearly betray the immature writer. From Wordnik.com. [Charles Lamb]
"Memoir," written by an old man who had squandered his energies and sunk into deserved obscurity, is tedious and magniloquent, and sometimes inaccurate. From Wordnik.com. [The Winning of the West, Volume 2 From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1777-1783] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Belovéd Vagabond] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Benjamin Franklin] Reference
They are indeed one and the same, two groups of magniloquent ideologues who only pretend to agree to disagree. heatherc wrote: I can't say I blame the Wheelers. From Wordnik.com. [Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local] Reference
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