In the 19th century, the use of grandiloquent, fanciful words was all the rage, which proves that overcomplicating things has always been funny. And is it a uniquely American phenomenon?

This year, the Word Warriors have not foozled about but rather compiled a list of memorable — some might say grandiloquent — words to be revived and reused in speech and writing. Far from a ...

Today, you can expect G to account for just under 2 percent of any page of written English, and roughly the same proportion of words in a dictionary—including grandiloquence, the use of haughty ...

Yet few high-profile comics acknowledge their thirst for affirmation, or the past and ongoing challenges informing it, as transparently or relentlessly as Gary Gulman does in his new one-man show, ...

Gulman, ever charming and almost inexcusably magnetic, holds the stage for the show’s over-90-minute runtime, and his ability to spin out ideas and embody vulnerability means that Grandiloquent ...

There’s a terrible sense of poignancy – if not doom – around all the meetings of the “coalition of the willing”, impressive as the grandiloquent words, the formidable roll call of ...

And c'mon, I'm a word nerd, so this is my happy place. One of the best candidates for me is "codswallop," which means, according to Jason Travis Ott's Grandiloquent Words, "Spoken or written words ...

Starting Tuesday, Jan. 7, the 54-year-old comic is settling in at the 299-seat Lucille Lortel Theatre for a month-long residency where he’ll debut his one-man show ‘Grandiloquent.’ ...

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But conservative judicial mavens have already made clear that outcomes-oriented jurisprudence is their thing now, even if they disguise it behind grandiloquent words such as "originalism" and ...

There’s a terrible sense of poignancy – if not doom – around all the meetings of the “coalition of the willing”, impressive as the grandiloquent words, the formidable roll call of ...