单词 | sesquipedalian |
例句 | Wilbur performed his silly antics; Templeton raced around to gather sesquipedalian words; the geese clucked around and were generally a nuisance. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z This capacity to draw inspiration from different genres was fundamental in the development of his career and unlike the sesquipedalian Lezama Lima, author of the masterpiece Paradiso, Piñera combined Cuban vernacular with more refined language. A hundred years of Virgilio Piñera, l'enfant terrible of Cuban literature 2012-08-03T17:09:31Z We were “recumbent” on the steps, feeling “sesquipedalian,” unafraid of the warm night under the watchful gaze of a phalanx of Fifth Avenue doormen. An Ode to Spring, if Only It?d Arrive 2011-04-22T21:09:11Z It was, to use a philosopher’s sesquipedalian word, an act of supererogation. Should I Accept a Cash Reward for Doing the Right Thing? 2018-01-10T05:00:00Z By the way, this is sometimes known in more general circles as sesquipedalian loquaciousness. Decoding Wall Street's Wall of Jargon 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z Even the sesquipedalian Tom Stoppard, I would argue, is ultimately of this school; he builds his many-splendored, polysyllabic words into towers of Babel that ultimately collapse under the weight of their own inadequacy. ArtsBeat: Theater Talkback: The Art of Eloquence 2012-05-03T15:07:19Z As it would have been an absurdity to have appended diminutives to sesquipedalian names, national wit, rather than deliberate plan, prevented it. Curiosities of Puritan Nomenclature 2012-03-29T02:00:13.900Z This “ornate style” introduced sesquipedalian Latinisms, words of immense dimensions, that could not hide their vacuity of thought. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z In Chapter XVIII, "the seequipedalian Hellenic vocable" was changed to "the sesquipedalian Hellenic vocable". A Cadet's Honor Mark Mallory's Heroism 2011-05-15T02:00:10.653Z He was indebted to a ruse of Aunt Margaret for his historic and sesquipedalian name. The Cave by the Beech Fork A Story of Kentucky?1815 2011-05-07T02:00:28.747Z She went straight to the hearts of her little readers because they could understand her; they needed no grown person to explain to them sesquipedalian words. Maria Edgeworth As long as in these sesquipedalian compounds, the significative root remains distinct, they belong to the agglutinative stage; as soon as it is absorbed by the terminations, they belong to the inflectional stage. Lectures on The Science of Language His self-opinion, perhaps, was not risen so high as to permit him to use the sesquipedalian words and violent metaphors, to which he afterward seems to have given a preference. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 14 "Which," added the Parson's solemn voice, "might be somewhat more classically expressed by the sesquipedalian Hellenic vocable—ahem!—Megalacephalomania." A Cadet's Honor Mark Mallory's Heroism 2011-05-15T02:00:10.653Z But "documentary evidence" was too sesquipedalian to submit to without a protest. When Ghost Meets Ghost I felt satisfied it was a friendly one; and was now more anxious than ever of overtaking its sesquipedalian owner. The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness Such the twice sesquipedalian name and title of him who at this time wielded the destinies of Mexico. The Free Lances A Romance of the Mexican Valley The story of any incident, to be realistic, will admit neither of sesquipedalian grandeur nor of grotesque images. Thackeray Their poverty of thought can not be long disguised in flamboyant rhetoric and sesquipedalian words, and hence they fail to carry conviction to serious-minded men. Talks on Talking Powers speaks of the language as “hopelessly consonantal, harsh, and sesquipedalian,” * * * “utterly unlike the sweet and simple 98 languages of the Sacramento.” Indian Linguistic Families Of America, North Of Mexico Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 1-142 Fact was, he had monologued it in his most sesquipedalian phraseology. Memories and Anecdotes During this function the Baboo will deliver some sesquipedalian reflections in the rodomontade mood. Twenty-One Days in India; and, the Teapot Series His passion for polysyllables was very amusing, and he loved to astonish his hearers by his "sesquipedalian" phraseology. Recollections of a Long Life An Autobiography Now nobody sees it, and those who do have had their anticipations lengthened leagues by every syllable of its sesquipedalian title. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 59, September, 1862 Many other fulsome, turgid, and even whimsical expressious of praise might be named, for the Puritans were rich in classic sesquipedalian adjectives, and their active linguistic consciences made them equally fertile in producing new ones. Sabbath in Puritan New England We hope that scientists will consign to innocuous desuetude their camouflaged sesquipedalian vocabularies, and tell us what they mean in short words, so we all may know what they say. The Evolution of Man Scientifically Disproved In 50 Arguments What would we not barter of all the sesquipedalian epics of the Empire for a few pages written by Cornelius Gallus, a thousand for each! Vergil A Biography "A Psychological Auto-Biography" would be too sesquipedalian a title; but "My Life Psychologically Related," or "The Psychology of my Life," or some such title, might be substituted. A Publisher and His Friends Memoir and Correspondence of John Murray; with an Account of the Origin and Progress of the House, 1768-1843 Time is wanted—or the hubbub, and flurry, and excitement created by ubiquitous sesquipedalian advertisement. Autobiography of Anthony Trollope Burton, notes in hand, stood on the platform, facing the great audience, his brain heavy with arguments and bursting with sesquipedalian and sledge-hammer words to pulverize his exasperating opponent. The Life of Sir Richard Burton He said that when it took a whole basketful of sesquipedalian adjectives to whoop up a thing of beauty, it was time for suspicion. The Mysterious Stranger D'Artagnan recoiled, as though the sesquipedalian syllables had knocked the breath out of his body. The Man in the Iron Mask |
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