aeolistic

Definitions

Pertaining to superfluous rhetorical flourishes; long-winded; bombastic.

Examples

“Lord Peter, and the martyrologic, aeolistic, ass-skulled Jack, who are more than thumb-nail sketches or abstractions.”

“Instead, Mitchell superintends only a coastal shipping firm with an appropriately aeolistic name⟳, the Oceanic Steam Navigation Company.”

“The propagandists, advertisers, diplomats, lawyers, politicians, and academicians rank high in the Aeolistic hierarchy, and their distorted and empty pronouncements currently play⟳ an important role in determining and forming our system of values and beliefs.”

“This makes the narrator intentionally complex: "The Aeolistic narrator is a historian whose work⟳ involves, as an allegory, a satiric attack on political Aeolism and includes, as a casebook of bombast, a similar attack on Aeolistic historians..."”

“Even his letters, on the few occasions when he has recourse to such devices, are free of Aeolistic flourishes: "neither couched in bad Latin, nor yet graced by rhetorical tropes" (p. 252)”

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