But I can only observe, as Lord Black's risible orotundity finally promises to dissipate into the realm of the crepuscular, that what ventures forth will inevitably make its return. From Wordnik.com. [Black day in July] Reference
I can attempt to disguise my language, I can dress it up into even more elaborate and grandiose orotundity, prolixity and self-consciousness, Will Self-consciousness you might say, or I could dress it down into something stripped. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-11-01] Reference
It would be interesting to trace the history of brainless orotundity back through the centuries to Hellenistic Alexandria and beyond are there examples of this sort of thing on baked clay tablets?... but it would probably drive the investigator to the madhouse. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: MORE BAD WRITING.] Reference
"As a widow," she resumed with orotundity not lessened by her absence from her own accustomed dais, "as a widow yourself, you are arranged here with a fair degree of comfort, as I am disposed to believe, Mrs. Gage.". From Wordnik.com. [The Sagebrusher A Story of the West] Reference
Seeking with great orotundity to explain his previous expressions and ingratiate himself with his superior, he urged reconsideration of the president’s decision to keep him in Washington. From Wordnik.com. [A Country of Vast Designs] Reference
Since in the book, Gabler clearly points out the limitations of Disney’s vision — in Disneyland, arguably its truest expression, idyllic, whites-only small-town life somehow leads straight to the space program — that subtitle seems no more than slipshod orotundity, meant to puff up the book’s importance. From Wordnik.com. [Cartoon Rembrandt, Homespun Fascist or Both?] Reference
Though his films are seldom shown outside art houses, what truly endears Jaglom to Snobs is his role as Orson Welles’s post – PETER BOGDANOVICH caretaker; Jaglom kept the great man company in his last years and gave him his final role, in the younger director’s Someone to Love (1987), in which Welles simply sat in the back of a theater and spoke his mind with characteristic orotundity. From Wordnik.com. [The Film Snob's Dictionary, Volume 3] Reference
DERIVATIVES orotundity |ˌôrəˈtənditē| noun. From Wordnik.com. [And then there's the way Sarah Palin keeps saying "also," also.] Reference
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