“In the furious first movement, Vivaldi unleashes these and other afflictions to music of staggering floridity.”

“For a long while, during the macho decades of rock and rap, it seemed as though vocal floridity had been drummed out of pop music.”

“His play, based on the real-life axe murder of a woman and her daughter by two maids, features fantasy, role-playing, floridity.”

“By combining the arch floridness of Victorian prose with a present-tense, subtly ironic style, Gray has created a distinctive voice.”

“A foyer painted red and decorated with gold and bright lights has a nocturnal subterranean floridness.”

“Mr. Davis lends a purplish floridness to his stay-at-home neurotic that is miles away from Mr. Bennett's more constipated version, while Ms. Chalfant finds a more sensual openness in the vicar's wife than Dame Maggie did.”