| The florid old actor-manager at the heart of Forkbeard Fantasy's Shooting Shakespeare is effusive in his bardolatry. |
| He was a rotund, florid, bad-tempered, red-haired man who would shout orders. |
| And when its distributor keeled, owing the publisher 70,000 smackers, well, you could smell the florid eulogies already being written. |
| On the mantelpiece is a small hard-backed book full of poems about motherly love, illustrated with florid pictures of angelic families. |
| Concerto movements also ended up in cantatas, often with florid parts being added to an already busy original. |
| On the plus side was the intriguingly ornate solo piano part, with florid additions, one may speculate, to compensate for the thinner strings. |
