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!
I despise them all. A for you. Our game against Bama will be the CBS game of the week, Sept. 14. Whoop!
Now you’re going to make me crabby. We don’t want that. A for you, reluctantly...
Mine finished blooming about a month ago. You can transplant them anytime but after blooms stop is a good time if you can’t wait until the fall, which is the best time. I wish I could stop mine from all the sucker growth around them. They were not a good choice for their location but I planted them before I knew that, in honor of my mom who loved them.
I love them, and they grow with little, or no, care around here which makes them a good choice for large lots. Our main problem is that buckthorn tens to grow up in them, and it is hard to tell the difference when there are no blooms. The other downside is that the blooming period is so short.
But, there are different varieties on the market now, and I intend to fill in with some of the re-blooming varieties and the dwarf varieties that bloom at different times. Hopefully, I could get color most of the summer that way.
But the old fashioned ones (like the Arbor Day Foundation gives away free every year) make a good framework and I have 2 that need trarnsplanting to a permanent location. I guess I’ll choose a cool day and go for it.
Should I take a sharp-shooter (long pointy shovel) and cut around the roots to encourage them to “ball” up about a month before I actually dig them?
I love them, and they grow with little, or no, care around here which makes them a good choice for large lots. Our main problem is that buckthorn tens to grow up in them, and it is hard to tell the difference when there are no blooms. The other downside is that the blooming period is so short.
But, there are different varieties on the market now, and I intend to fill in with some of the re-blooming varieties and the dwarf varieties that bloom at different times. Hopefully, I could get color most of the summer that way.
But the old fashioned ones (like the Arbor Day Foundation gives away free every year) make a good framework and I have 2 that need trarnsplanting to a permanent location. I guess I’ll choose a cool day and go for it.
Should I take a sharp-shooter (long pointy shovel) and cut around the roots to encourage them to “ball” up about a month before I actually dig them?
Yes. It will make the job easier.
Thank you.
No, no shame. But it’s likely a mortal wound. You can’t say they didn’t try, just didn’t get the bounces. Craig Adams hits the post a few minutes before the gamewinner. An inch to the left and it’s a different situation.
LOL I used it like that because of the similarity of the words.
My bad habit of “skimming” posts just picked up the proximity “orotund” and “Christie”. Of course, it was all over after that. I could not focus on the actual meaning of the WFTD, particularly after seeing the pictures yesterday of poor Gov. Christie waddling down the beach with the lithe and prancing Obama.
It is 72, with a chance of rain-the grass in the woods was damp earlier when I went hiking...
The panic of Obama’s bunch
Appears to be contagious-
Even fringe media’s remarks
Could be termed outrageous
Holder says he’s staying-
Now, that could be a rout
His most orotund groupies
Might even drag him out
With the IRS running mad,
The enemies lists and all-
Deja vu-it’s Nixon’s kingdom
In the year before his fall
It was an exciting game but you could see how exhausted everyone got at the end.
A+ for you. The skies opened up here when I was finishing my run. Lots of wildlife out there earlier. I hope the rain moves through. I’m babysitting tonight for my nephew.
A+ for you! They claim having the big gut helps them but I don’t see how since it decreases lung expansion. Never understood their reasoning.
I love lilacs, but they do not grow well at all here in the hill country-the soil is too thin, rocky, and the chemical composition is all wrong-unless you want to dig a hole 6 ft deep and fill it with top soil brought from 60-100 miles south, they do best as a potted ornamental shrub...
Ah yes, but I’ll bet you can grow crepe myrtle and bouganvilla, two blooming shrubs that we cannot have in Wisconsin. At least I could grow those successfully in the Houston area. (Texas is a big state with many climates.) Of course every place needs soil brought in. That goes without saying.
Willing blindness of this nation as well, yes.
Sorry to be cynical which may necessitate crabbiness in others, but it just seems of late that we as a nation have become lost, and we really need another Reagan out there. And all the RNC offers are milquetoast RINOs.
50-60 years ago, when our only sources of news were a handful of Daily Newspapers and weekly news magazines, as well as nightly news broadcasts and news reels at the movies you might be excused for not knowing the nitty gritty of the political scene until after the books are written. But now, with unlimited sources of news, it is inexcusable that people are so ignorant. Willfully ignorant.
The perfect example, IMHO, is the recent video of the man on the street interview when the reported asked a goteed white man if he agreed with Obamacare.. “Uh, no.” “Why not?” “I don’t really know what Obamacare is.”
Crepe myrtle grows fine here, but does not get tall enough to make a small tree as it does further south where there is dirt. The winters are too cold here for bouganvilla-it may not survive if it snows, or if the temperature remains below freezing for more than a day or so, no matter how tightly and well you wrap it up-their lifespan here is about as long as that of a banana tree-I’ve lost a couple of them to the cold.
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