| The new style could be as limpid as Waugh or as blunt as Orwell or as funny as White and Benchley, but it dethroned the old orotundity as surely as Addison had killed off the old asymmetry. |
| Sam Tsoutsouvas, as Theseus, flaunts his habitual love affair with his overripe voice with an orotundity that reeks of self-adulation. |
| There is no braking midline caesura, nor is there Pope's massy orotundity. |
| Lincoln took the sentiment, stripped it of its orotundity, and produced one of the most stirring political statements in American history: Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. |
| The combination of orotundity and grade-school theology was a turnoff. |
| And in recent years, he has occasionally fallen into what might be called the knightly style, where mellifluousness modulates into orotundity. |
