Florid in a sentence

American sculptor Paley works in iron and steel, sometimes on an extravagant scale, with a florid, baroque imagination.

By the time it got to Branagh’s “Death on the Nile” (2022) it was a mite less florid, but still a scene-stealer, for better or worse.

Brock says he has learned not to try “to overly excite people,” that left-of-center liberals like facts; they aren’t usually moved by florid propaganda.

Each of the four vocal soloists had a few minutes in the sun, suddenly flexing their virtuoso muscles in florid music before stepping back into the bigger picture again.

They believe that their many florid dysfunctions are rooted in the 1980 kidnapping of Carl, the head of the family.

None of this is as florid, or as blatant, as the abuse of office we watched unfold in the Trump White House.

When we ask if it’s true that he’s a gifted mimic who does a brilliant impression of Rupert Murdoch and Jerry Hall, he says, florid to his roots, that his skill has been “exaggerated”.

Why did no-one applaud Mr Mnangagwa’s florid speech?

Film picks out the gradations of dying light, the last and first glimmers, and the florid corona of the eclipsed sun, to a degree and with a nuance that digital recording cannot approach.

The only flash of colour came from his florid and slightly sagging face.

A general progress towards a florid and sprawling hand is easily recognisable, but a consistent and deliberate style was hardly evolved before the 5th century, from which unfortunately few dated documents have survived.

Bernstein magnanimously removed his name as co-author of the lyrics, although Sondheim was uncertain he wanted to receive sole credit for what he considered to be overly florid contributions by Bernstein.

Governor Tryon and the Boys exchanged threats, truce offers, and other writings, which were frequently written by Allen in florid and didactic language, while the Boys continued to drive surveyors and incoming tenants on New York-granted lands away.

He had particular scorn for those newspaper columnists covering the war who typed out self-glorifying and excessively florid prose about their meagre wartime experiences.

In Hergé's revised edition, he adopts a more florid prose style: "This is to tell you, oh highly esteemed friend, that I entrust to you Abdullah, my adored son.

In the Sephardi traditions the haftarah melody is considerably more florid than the Torah melody, and usually in a different musical mode, and there are only isolated points of contact between the two.

Mannerism in literature and music is notable for its highly florid style and intellectual sophistication.

Often the style of the drawings is florid and frilly, as was already the fashion in 4th-century Athens.

Promising "evolution to avoid revolution", he pioneered a new campaign style of appealing directly to the masses with florid oratory and charisma.

The most significant of these developments was the creation of "florid organum" around 1100, sometimes known as the school of St. Martial (named after a monastery in south-central France, which contains the best-preserved manuscript of this repertory).