| In short, this Budget, which did not correspond with the magniloquent speech of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, could not stand. |
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| Mrs. Samuel Smith, an American lady, known to my cousin, asked for my accompaniment to a magniloquent lecture the other evening. |
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| Mr Bacon's language strikes us as rather magniloquent for the occasion. From this year 1832 we enter upon the public life of Abraham Lincoln. |
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| Sebastiano was the Venetian artist of his generation most devoted to magniloquent form. |
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| Although he expected that posterity would take an interest in him — otherwise he would not have saved so many of his sketches — he did not picture himself in the magniloquent terms employed by Hoffmann and others. |
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| Among the designers, Pietro Aschieri was pre-eminent, and in the creation of a majestic and magniloquent structure, was able fully to express his ideas, inspired by a classicism mixed with scenography. |
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| The whole thing sloshes along, alternately farcical and magniloquent, with threads left dangling everywhere, sometimes for hundreds of pages, ultimately forever. |
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| In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, with the Revolution succeeded by the reign of Napoleon, that meant history painting: magniloquent tableaus — battles, shipwrecks, coronations — in which myth and reality met. |
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| His indefatigable adversary, who is the perfect model of an agile controversialist, had attacked him as a magniloquent Thraso, on account of his Pansophical promises. |
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| We have given up magniloquent speech to follow veriloquent speech. |
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