Posted on 06/06/2013 4:13:59 AM PDT by secret garden
In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".
orotund \OR-uh-tund\ adjective
1. marked by fullness, strength, and clarity of sound : sonorous
2. pompous, bombastic
Example sentences:
Josh cleared his throat dramatically, then did a dead-on impression of the professor's orotund, patronizing speech.
"Comedian Bob Hope used to tell an anecdote about Franklin D. Roosevelt housetraining his Scottish terrier, Fala, on the Chicago Tribune. It was a reference to Roosevelt's greatest hater,Tribune publisher Robert R. McCormick, an orotund aristocrat who considered the New Deal indistinguishable from Communism."
— From a post by Edward McClellan on NBC Chicago's Ward Room blog, April 23, 2013
Etymology:
The Latin roots of "orotund" are related to two more common English words—"oral" and "rotund." Latin "or-" means "mouth," and "rotundus" means "round" or "circular." The Roman poet Horace joined forms of those Latin terms to create the phrase "ore rotundo," literally meaning "with round mouth," and figuratively meaning "with well-turned speech." "Ore rotundo" was modified to "orotund" and adopted into English in the late 18th century. It can indicate either strength of delivery or inflated wording.
The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day. The Review threads are linked for your edification. ;-)
Practice makes perfect.....post on....
Review Thread One: Word For The Day, Thursday 11/14/02: Raffish
Review Thread Two: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/14/03: Roister
Review Thread Three: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/28/03: Obdurate
WFB's attempt to emulate us ; ) No pushing at the door please!
Rise and shine!
The great orotund governor from New Jersey
told theWon the storm was bad, come and see.
For the cameras they did mug
even went in for the hug.
After awhile the gov was heard to say he never calls me.
Others, such as Karen Kenney, seem to have drawn it up directly from her heart.
Just damn.
Gee. From tioga’s offering, I thought that orotund had something to do with rotund at first glance.
“In the rotunda the orotund and rotund Senator Bubba (Bombast) O'Breakwind said the tender tundra......”
Jay Carney, mendacious, orotund
Will claim that he, just like Obama, was stunned
That Cincy agents weren’t rogue
D.C. put the targets in vogue
“They are patriots, and have to be shunned”
Since my period of post surgical enforced inactivity, I have become O (so) rotund.
In the mean time, oroturd the White House, another press corpse briefing was being gleefully sucked down by the screaming masses of Bomama’s democrat-socialist worshippers....
Please don’t think me orotund, but I’d like to remind all that 69 years ago, the Invasion of Europe began. Ferocious fighting on both sides had started, good men died, and the fingers of Nazi occupiers were being broken away from their grasp of Europe. Back then, we understood war and why we were involved. Today such understanding is impossible, thanks to idiot newspapers, cowardly politicians, and the willing blindness of a superficial President.
How about the willing blindness of nearly half the nation?
The Philadelphia Medical Examiner just denied Fr. Frank Pavone’s request to give the remains of Gosnell’s aborted babies a proper burial. Philadelphia is taking extreme measures to prove that they are no longer the City of Brotherly Love, aren’t they?
It is raining (again) and temps will not break 60 degrees here today. I have decided that the pasture shall remain un-mowed this year until frost kills it. This will cut back on my mowing time and gas consumption, and I won’t risk any more horrific experiences. Of course it also means that I will be unable to reach my fenced vegetable garden which I wasn’t planning to plant this year anyway. But, I would like to clean it out.
I was slowly mowing around the outside of the fence when I hit the fawn. :( I’d just gone down one side (not the side with the gate) and was making a loop to get the 2nd side when the fatal accident ocurred. I’m still suffering shock from the experience.
Does anyone know when it is a good time to transplant lilacs? I have a couple of Arbor Day lilacs growing in a “nursery” area of my veggie garden which need transplanting. I need to send my husband out there to recover them. Do I have to wait until the leaves fall off? Or, just until the flowers are gone?
A for you!
We’d also like the phone records of every single citizen, for the only reason which is oppression. Bastards. A+ for you.
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