Meaning of aeolistic | Babel Free

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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