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But these nuggets feel so precision-engineered to showcase Smith’s hard-earned self-awareness that they appear trite, even insincere, when juxtaposed with his riotous magniloquence.

From Washington Post • Nov. 5, 2021

Hillary may not have MacKaye’s magniloquence, but he shares his idealism.

From New York Times • Mar. 13, 2017

Capably staged by Lee Strasberg, the play, Mr. Kingsley's first-staged, has periods of magniloquence and structural fatuity.

From Time Magazine Archive

But he paced, and roared, and pointed, and pounded, and stabbed with his cigar, and spoke with an intelligence and a magniloquence and a force that overwhelmed.

From Time Magazine Archive

Chiefest among these was the "Ichnographia Rustica," which gave general directions for the management of country-estates, while it indulged in some prefatory magniloquence upon the dignity and antiquity of the art of gardening.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 77, March, 1864 by Various