Example Sentences

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"It was without bad faith at a time of maximum effusiveness."

From Reuters • Aug. 21, 2023

Mount assumed her effusiveness and charm were by-products of her troubled childhood.

From BBC • Dec. 29, 2021

While it may sound nothing like Young’s “Second Dream,” there is also a drone-like effusiveness of chordal sonorities that make the space you are in feel as though it were expanding.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 19, 2018

But while Mr. Redman soloed with a smokestack effusiveness, getting underneath the melodies and setting them alight, Mr. Coltrane’s horn was liquid.

From New York Times • Oct. 30, 2017

She smiled at him too much, over-doing her professional cordiality; underneath the effusiveness, he sensed the repulsion.

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