Sentence examples for florid prose from inspiring English sources
Today, Lawrence's florid prose may strike some as unreadable.
In florid prose, he painted images as striking as the verdant visuals at the hallowed grounds.
The feature-length Flames Of War mythologises Isis's military heroism with gruesome footage and florid prose.
The florid prose of tabloid reporters catapulted the unrepentant divorcee into the public eye.
"The Bureaus of Florid Prose and Adjectiveorrhea have both been indefinitely closed for renovation," is how Mr. Grahm put it.
Instead, about 800 words of florid prose would drop; not necessarily what you were looking for 10 minutes before deadline.
It was eloquent, in the florid Victorian prose of the time, but mostly dealt with the difference between Indian and Christian spiritualism.
What is so refreshing about Morrissey's Autobiography is its very messiness, its deliriously florid, overblown prose style, its unwillingness to kowtow to a culture of literary formula and commercial pigeon-holing.
This was in part because Roupenian wrote the story in a dry style that felt more like a piece of web content, a well-written Medium post, as opposed to using florid, architectural prose.
He warns potential readers: "Now and again it gets florid (the prose)." He adds, "I am, for what it's worth, just your standard Semitic American living on the precipice in Brooklyn these days, drinking bourbon and watching the sky fall, and trying to take care of my plants.
When Cannon went off to Europe to write battle dispatches for Stars & Stripes, he developed what would become his signature style: florid, sentimental prose with an underpinning of hard-bitten wisdom, an urban style that he had picked up in candy stores and night clubs and from Runyon, Ben Hecht, and Westbrook Pegler.
