Word of The Day, April 2

Word of the Day for Thursday April 2, 2005

magniloquent \mag-NIL-uh-kwent\, adjective:
Lofty or grandiose in speech or expression; using a high-flown
style of discourse; bombastic.

Stevens did for American poetic language what Saul Bellow
was to do for prose, extending its boundaries, taking in
the magniloquent, the arcane, the plainspoken, the gaudy,
the low-rent.
--Algis Valiunas, "Wallace Stevens: Collected Poetry and
Prose," [1]Commentary, January 1, 1998

A feature of Young's intellectual project is to incorporate
the Elizabethan delight in metaphors both decorous and
indecorous, constantly embellishing her prose with a poetic
juxtaposition of the grand with the prosaic, "a constant
alternation of the magniloquent and the colloquial."
--Constance Eichenlaub, "Marguerite Young," [2]Review of
Contemporary Fiction, June 22, 2000
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