| At the other extreme is Vienna, with his sadistic relish and orotund vernacular. |
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| When more emotion was needed, the volume was turned up, or the elocution became more orotund. |
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| Viewers baffled by these moments, not to mention the orotund tones and rolled R's of theatrical elocution, will probably welcome the subtitles. |
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| It is banal, orotund, unmusical, and stuffed with wads of unnecessary jargon. |
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| Yes, Will's prose is more orotund and the moral is more delicately unfurled. |
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| Kipling uses the orotund, elaborate language of Hindi courtesy to provide the ritual punctuation for the longer stories. |
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| Opinions divide very sharply indeed on the question of whether Hanks is funny in the orotund, actor-manager-ish role of Dorr. |
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| While not exactly an inflammatory call to arms, it reminded us perfectly of their pair's gorgeously orotund sound. |
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| Pretentious maybe, but it is still rather fun in its orotund syllables. |
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| They could therefore rely more on an orotund voice when the circumstances required competence, confidence, and enthusiasm early in the interaction. |
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| Municipal showdowns motivate titanic clashes, deadly conspiracies and orotund speeches. |
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| His orotund phrasing and warm, Californian intonation complete a fabulous vocal talent. |
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| He can be mawkish and banal, pompous and orotund, offering little more than the mellifluous versifying of shallow or confused thoughts. |
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| Why couch strong emotions in verbiage that veers from orotund to skittering? |
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| I admired those orotund and lordly pronouncements on matters of public concern. |
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| As we noted several months ago, orotund, abstract language can obfuscate accountability, truth-telling, and as we're now seeing most clearly, the simple facing of reality. |
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| An orotund Tory in pinstripes boomed out that he never expected to see the day when he would stand shoulder to shoulder with Tatchell and cry revolution. |
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| All the night before, I worried that I wouldn't be able to keep a straight face when this Gomes fellow opened his mouth and came out with the orotund polysyllables of some brown escapee from the hold of the Mayflower. |
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| Unlike the orotund elegance of Jamesian, for example, or the insinuative darkness of Kafkaesque, the word Kiplingesque has something comic and preposterous about it now. |
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