fulsomeness

"Between Fulsomeness and Pettifoggery: A Reply to Sumner." Cato Unbound, September 18.

In another sensitive arena, it is difficult to express the fulsomeness of public contempt for the highhandedness of the Haredi rabbinic court that declared the retroactive annulment of thousands of conversions, mainly of Russian-speaking olim, that had been issued by special courts established by the government and presided over by rabbis from the Zionist, "national religious" sector.

Frozen Jesters, 2011, with its twisting ribbons of parallel lines of various colors and white, achieves a sort of pointillist-by-other-means evenness of tone despite what could easily have been its fulsomeness of color.

But behind the fulsomeness and platitudes, the mind could prove stubbornly resistant to throwing off its stockade habits, just as a caged bird happily flutters its wings when the door is opened only to feel a bizarre and apparently impossible vertigo.

The fulsomeness of fragments and staccato sentences normally reserved for action sequences lends the entire work an urgency that matches the main character's need for truth; a need that impels the work along like a gale wind against the back.

our lesson, to be sufficiently aware of the fulsomeness of life.

Fredeman concludes his "Introduction" with a helpful critique of the style, content, and value of Rossetti's letters to literary and cultural historians: Rossetti lacks the sensitivity of Keats, the intellectual and narrative prodigality of Byron, the stylistic energy, fulsomeness, and bawdy humour of Swinburne, or the psychological tension and descriptive intensity of Virginia Woolf.

But a measure of partisanship and rhetorical fulsomeness is an unavoidable part of the job.