For all his orotund pandering, in London he spoke to a half-empty hall.
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"Donald Trump is a serial philanderer," Cruz reminded the world, his voice orotund with outrage.
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Orotund syllables drip from the mouths of government ministers, military officers and property owners in private consultations.
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By the end, he was rehearsing the same material, pressing "shuffle" on the same orotund playlists, and his work lost much of its consecrating power.
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And some of Mr. McNally's habitual flourishes show through the play's surface like the underpainting of a different picture: the showbiz references, the orotund dialogue, the frequent intrusion of classical music.
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The prose style in the three memoirs alters under the pressure of the changing agenda: the first time pained and urgent, the second subtler and more considered, the last orotund and outward.
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" The Sénateur speaks in orotund donations—"I will give you a story," or "Mon vieux, I have been haunted by a dream" —and is always resoundingly theatrical: "The Sénateur's chortle had progressed to a guffaw.
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In 1841 Joseph Willson, a dentist, wrote "Sketches of the Higher Classes of Coloured Society in Philadelphia", an orotund, Victorian disquisition that urged his coevals to be cultured and educated, but above all to "show themselves very humble".
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Often the most powerful moments are the most superficially corny, especially in the inflated second section: "Claws of the Dead" and "Flower of Fingers" recall the most orotund pseudo-Wagnerian pomp heard through a wind tunnel — mud splattered on the instruments, strings breaking, harmonic progressions jumbled.
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Hillenbrand is a true master of the English language (planes "etch" the sky, sharks "bristle" beneath the raft), and her writerly skill is delivered with a feel for the eras in which the book unfolds by Herrmann's orotund, World War II radio announcer voice, his accent just slightly out of time.
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"Blainery 1985 p. 17 Nicholas Roe claimed, "His Juvenilia has been genuinely impressive for the skill with which he had imitated other writers, and it had deservedly drawn admiration."Roe 2005 p. 68 Anthony Holden argued, "The opening ode on Macbeth [...] is declared, as if by way of apology for its orotund emptiness, to have been written at the age of twelve.
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To account for McDiarmid's style, "J. Ss." said that McDiarmid's native language was Scottish Gaelic, and in translating his writings into English, he used a dictionary extensively, choosing the most impressive word without regard to its part of speech. McKerracher says that McDiarmid's minister read in church some Gaelic translations from Samuel Johnson, and McDiarmid tried to emulate or surpass Johnson's orotund expression.
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King has stated, he found himself unable to identify with the emotional displays and gestures from congregants frequent at his church, and doubted if he would ever attain personal satisfaction from religion. He later stated of this point in his life, "doubts began to spring forth unrelentingly." In high school, King became known for his public-speaking ability, with a voice which had grown into an orotund baritone. He proceeded to join the school's debate team.
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These would be his final works and included a portrait of Powell in Volume 21. Thomas Butler Gunn, illustrator and writer, worked for Powell during the 1850s and wrote about him in his diaries. He believed that Dickens had based the character of Wilkins Micawber on Powell, saying that he resembled him both physically and in his mannerisms. Gunn’s less-than-complimentary description of Powell goes on: > He is very familiar in conversation, and his speech has a sort of orotund > unctuousness of accent which, in conjunction with his implied knowledge of > every-body, might easily gull people into the belief that he was rather a > witty man of the world than otherwise.
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