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Here, as he did in “Shuggie Bain,” Stuart mixes the self-aware floridity and emotional Technicolor of a Douglas Sirk melodrama with the ambient violence of Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels.

From New York Times • Apr. 3, 2022

It appears to have been Ms. Rourke’s intention to create a historical distance between then and now, perhaps as a means of justifying the high floridity of what follows.

From New York Times • Oct. 30, 2016

While recognizing his indebtedness to his predecessor, Mr. Allen said that he sought to distinguish himself from Cross, who retained the floridity of 1930s radio broadcasting long after the decade was out.

From Washington Post • Oct. 10, 2016

The result had all the fidelity and floridity of fan fiction.

From Time • Feb. 12, 2015

Here is contrast, indeed: the sacristy, austere and classic, and the chapel a very exhibition building of floridity and coloured ornateness, dating from the seventeenth century and not finished yet.

From A Wanderer in Florence by Lucas, E. V. (Edward Verrall)