flowery, melodramatic, declamatory, lugubrious, grandiloquent, prolix, orotund, rococo, poetic, saturnine, cadenced, droll, aphoristic, nabokovian, mozartian, baroque, toneless, stentorian, mellifluous, waspish, verbose, pedantic, histrionic, pompous, plummy, epigrammatic, blowsy, hieratic, rhapsodic, overfamiliar, epicene, wordy, quavery, foppish, pointillistic, rebarbative, sneery, portentous, polysyllabic, digressive, unpoetic, bathetic, sonorous, incantatory, idiomatic, pretentious, honeyed, lumpish, rabelaisian, pellucid, dulcet, dandified, dostoevskian, metrical, maudlin, fluttery, melismatic, lachrymose, pallid, decorous, gnomic, courtly, brusk, leaden, mawkish, acidulous, showy, poetical, evocative, ravishing, sententious, pantomimic, ponderous, affectless, filigreed, mordant, jaunty, songlike, jocose, latinate, insouciant, etiolated, lyrical, unmodulated, bombastic, erudite, jamesian, sibilant, overwrought, lambent, dolorous, overdetermined, da capo, limpid, inexpressive, idiosyncratic, sidelong, flamboyant, eulogistic, pungent, falstaffian, mirthful, agates, aprons, ash, augite, bags, biotite, biscuit, blankets, bristles, brown, buff, canvas, chalk, chert, chintz, cinnamon, cloaks, clods, cloth, cloths, turgid, crabbed, racy, unadorned, impassioned, swarthy, vivacious, classic, enigmatic, exuberant, refined, rhapsodical, stilted, artless, cadaverous

coloratura, floridly

aureate, fancy