(a.) Highly embellished with figurative language; florid; as, a flowery style.
Example Sentences:
(1) Khan said later: “Speakers can get carried away but they are just flowery words.” Goldsmith’s team cite Tamimi as saying that after Israel is destroyed and replaced with an Islamic state, Jews should “sail on the sea in ships back to where they came or drown in it”.
(2) 73 Kloof Street, +27 21 424 6169, onceincapetown.co.za The Backpack Facebook Twitter Pinterest Founder-owners Toni Shina and Lee Harris have created a homely hostel spread across four adjoining houses with cool courtyards and flowery gardens, a chillout lounge, communal kitchen, health-food cafe and terrace bar.
(3) While still only 20, Guinness was a flowery Osric, in Gielgud's Hamlet at the New Theatre.
(4) My memories of working in the shop over Christmas are of customers grabbing frantically, of men buying a pair of knickers for one girlfriend and a basque for another, of the flowery heat of the store being broken by icy gusts from the swinging door.
(5) Instead, those who would see abortion made illegal drape their dangerous policies in flowery language – being careful to paint women as ignorant victims, not criminals.
(6) It was his idea that the letters on the hotel's sign should be in a permanent state of flux – sometimes reading "flowery twats", sometimes "farty towels".
(7) So many teenagers are doing it.” I stare at pictures of David Beckham with his flowery sleeves, Angelina Jolie all veins and scrawls.
(8) Siân James (flowery dress) and Jonathan Blake (checked trousers) were key figures and are played in the film by Jessica Gunning and Dominic West.
(9) A woman in a flowery bathing cap swore decorously as she got in: "Flipping shit!"
(10) Some of the old women in their flowery housecoats, scarves knotted tightly under their chins, pushed free sweets on us, giggling and laughing, throwing their eyes to heaven.
(11) But it’s a different story at the Summit hotel, a low-rise, slightly old-fashioned affair set amid flowery gardens.
(12) with smiley ladies in flowery housecoats and for herds of cows on their way for milking.
(13) In an interview back in August at the teams Flowery Branch, GA HQ, Smith told me: “There were certain things that we didn’t do very well last year.
(14) If his unveiling was accompanied by flowery rhetoric about the club's glorious history and a "commitment to the long term", its termination was as messy, unsatisfactory and gloomy as the 10 months in between.
(15) "Our countryside is much more flowery than it should be," says Matthew Oates, a National Trust ecologist.
(16) They won't thank the west – or China, India, Russia, the African Union – for letting this Arab spring die in a field of flowery promises.
(17) Morrissey's style also caught his eye, as Howarth also wore his hair in a quiff, inspired by David Tennant's Doctor Who, and liked flowery shirts.
(18) Loss of flowery habitats and rising disease have been blamed, as well as increasing use of pesticides .
(19) A self-styled modern prophet, seemingly constructed of right angles, flowery superlatives and swear words, bounding around like some kind of hipster, dandy Jesus.
(20) Smell is a sense which triggers our emotions; it was more eloquent a tribute to Blow than any of the flowery eulogies I had read.
Overwrought
Definition:
() of Overwork
(p. p. & a.) Wrought upon excessively; overworked; overexcited.
Example Sentences:
(1) With the students back, parliament in session and that Killers album slowly being revealed as an overwrought dud, what better time for the greatest minds of their generation to go down the pub and invent a new genre?
(2) No one assumes that New Zealand will have an impact in South Africa, yet insouciance is an asset when other sides are so overwrought.
(3) Lost in all of the cyber-Armageddon rhetoric is Sony’s own negligent security practices, which is maybe where some of Hollywood’s own overwrought ire should be pointed, rather than blaming journalists for reporting.
(4) The season premiere, which aired on Sunday, has everything its returning fans demand: shocks and quips and china sauce-boats, and overwrought manners and hats.
(5) One morning we had a text vote for whether or not to play Curtain Call by the Damned, in its full 18 minutes of overwrought gothic glory.
(6) Overwrought tell-all memoirs are liable to elicit this response even from those who are not directly affected.
(7) One of the older ones actually burst into tears, somewhat overwrought by the whole experience.
(8) I, for one, enjoyed the overwrought silliness of series two.
(9) He is overwrought and half-asleep, and so Forster risks giving him purple cravings for "big spaces where passion clasped peace, spaces no science can reach, but they existed for ever, full of woods some of them, and arched with majestic sky and a friend".
(10) The 34-year-old was as overwrought as any testosterone-maddened youngster but could still have contrived a triumph.
(11) It’s as if too many overwrought, mainly male, pub bores have been allowed to take over what is, never forget, a vote for the whole country’s future.
(12) Should he ever need alternative employment - and, after all, he might - Brown might consider a career writing poems in overwrought Hallmark greetings cards.
(13) The understandable but overwrought attacks on Saif Gaddafi that followed his embrace of his father, clan and regime in Tripoli at the start of the uprising, have made it extremely difficult to pursue a diplomatic track in Libya.
(14) All of which she squares up to with Boudiccan fortitude (overwrought grandma years).
(15) There is a danger for Franzen, that an author who is not a native user of the internet will be exposed in the way in which he writes about it, and there are a few false notes in Purity; an off use of the term “going viral”, a tin-eared reference to Jeff Bezos, and the overwrought phrase “moused and clicked” to describe the activity of industrious interns at their desks.
(16) Whether overwrought or merely unlucky, Liverpool could not capitalise on initial ebullience and fell behind nine minutes from the interval.
(17) In a number of later films, he is often seen trying to direct some overwrought superstar.
(18) It certainly paved the way for two acclaimed debut albums in the trip-hop vein – Portishead's dense and sometimes overwrought Dummy (1994) and Tricky's darkly mesmeric Maxinquaye from 1995 – as well as the more well-mannered beats of acts such as Morcheeba and Zero 7.
(19) For me, it’s just indulging my passion for overwrought choreography, pure performance and cheesy music.
(20) I felt odd: overtired, overwrought, unpleasantly like my brain had been removed and my skull stuffed with something like microwaved aluminium foil, dinted, charred and shorting with sparks.