The tone of the speech bordered on the magniloquent.
Hitchens is a virtuoso of the magniloquent non-sequitur.
In his magniloquent way, he found the increase in crime "oppressive and startling".
This actually is magniloquent rhetoric, but it is also dazzlingly vague.
Mr Bacon's language strikes us as rather magniloquent for the occasion.From this year 1832 we enter upon the public life of Abraham Lincoln.
The whole thing sloshes along, alternately farcical and magniloquent, with threads left dangling everywhere, sometimes for hundreds of pages, ultimately forever.
And in performance terms, the prevailing intimacy lets Mr. Jacobi deliver the magniloquent scene of Lear on the heath in a crystalline stage whisper, as if his galloping rage were indivisible from an interior torment that only Lear understands.
In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, with the Revolution succeeded by the reign of Napoleon, that meant history painting: magniloquent tableaus — battles, shipwrecks, coronations — in which myth and reality met.
Although he expected that posterity would take an interest in him — otherwise he would not have saved so many of his sketches — he did not picture himself in the magniloquent terms employed by Hoffmann and others.
The magniloquent narrator here is Billy Brent, a South Floridian prone to violent impulses and impromptu sermons, a man who routinely gets so stoned he inadvertently speaks his thoughts aloud.
But these pictures, from a series titled "Remix," are executed not in magniloquent oils but in fast, thin watercolor, mixed with passages in India ink applied with a feather pen.
