Sentence examples for overblown style from inspiring English sources

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This overblown style works well in showcasing Morrow's imaginative flair.

Perhaps Afghanistan, a place of extremes, invites this overblown style.

Tom Holland's book of the same name is set in a different time and place, but it tells a very similar story, in a similarly overblown style.

Plainly, the artist wants to deliver the pleasures of paint and color as directly as possible, but this modest desire is swamped by the imperatives of an overblown style.

(Seeing the pattern here?) There's a luscious varsity jacket — white wool in the body, beige mesh on the arms, separated with a strip of slate blue ($450) — that adds humor and softness to that overblown style.

James really knows how to plot a procedural thriller, and he enjoys a sly joke, like casting Gaia as Mother Teresa in a West End musical called "Sainted!" But his droll wit deserts him when it comes to the Hollywood natives, caricatured in an overblown style that's wildly at odds with the earnest manner of his series's sleuth, Detective Superintendent Roy Grace.

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This overblown quote — delivered in the grandiloquent style that seems to appear every time someone wins a Supreme Court case — assumes that the people who make video games are artists, and Justice Scalia actually agrees with them.

It's not an overblown orchestral style.

"Some people do ask us to return to the overblown, blowzy style of chardonnay, but no".

"Apparently all it takes these days to spark a media hacking frenzy is a copy of iMovie, a voice synthesizer and a painfully overblown prose style.

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.

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