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orotund adjective affected, artificial, blustering, bombastic, clear, declamatory, elocutionary, flatulent, forceful, full, fustian, grandiloquent, grandiose, high-flown, histrionic, inflated, magniloquent, mellow, oratorical, pompous, presumptuous, pretentious, resonant, rhetorical, showy, sonorous, stilted, strong, stuffy, swelling, swollen, theatrical, tumid, turgescent, turgid, vainglorious, windy See also: flatulent, fustian, grandiose, histrionic, turgid How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| No zombie discussion would be complete without orotund socio-political theory, so here's mine: By foregrounding the question of how much dignity there can be in death and dying, the era of physician-assisted suicide and Terri Schiavo has spurred the recent revival of the zombie film. We all know," she says, adopting a mocking, orotund tone, "that dance is important. But the model for the rhetorician whose orotund sentences ravished the minds and hearts of those who heard him on the radio was Mark Antony, the spellbinder who provokes mutiny while saying, "Good friends, sweet friends, let me not stir you up/To such a flood of mutiny" (Julius Caesar 3. |
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