The orotund Mr Gove says he wants to "move the Bell-curve rightward", requiring higher standards for all pupils.
Municipal showdowns motivate titanic clashes, deadly conspiracies and orotund speeches.
Friends have told me in all earnestness that they think Shakespeare might be better in Russian. in Moscow, a taxi driver attempted to prove the point by asking me to consider the words written next to the date on a carton of milk.In Russian this is an orotund, literary phrase a direct translation, in fact, of the French à consommer de préférence avant.
His orotund phrasing and warm, Californian intonation complete a fabulous vocal talent.
He can be mawkish and banal, pompous and orotund, offering little more than the mellifluous versifying of shallow or confused thoughts.
Why couch strong emotions in verbiage that veers from orotund to skittering?
I admired those orotund and lordly pronouncements on matters of public concern.
He and his friends (including a tall, orotund painter and an awkward young scientist in love with the daughter of a corrupt local tycoon) pay a lot of attention to a neighborhood band of felines — his own, an unnamed gray one, who is in love with the tycoon's pampered house cat, and a hard-nosed black cat who trains himself to hunt large animals.
Qaddafi, likewise, waited until it was too late, continuing to posture and give orotund speeches long after his people had rejected him.
Any glint of lyrical wealth would have spoiled the impoverished mood: such, at least, is Kurzel's calculation, and you can hear the ghost of Orson Welles, a zealot of the orotund, chuckling richly at such a drab conceit.
Nine years ago, in the days after Hurricane Katrina, CNN's Anderson Cooper had a much applauded moment of glory when he secured a live interview with Mary Landrieu, the Democratic Senator from Louisiana, and behaved "authentically" on the air — which is to say, unlike an orotund, falsely authoritative TV correspondent.
