For this reason (and owing to the florid descriptions of romantic elements), the novel has been compared to William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet.

Occasionally, the papers provided florid descriptions of debutante parties like the 1932 dinner dance for one Gertrude Low, who "wore a white peau d'ange gown, trimmed with kolinsky fur on the shoulders, and carried a muff made of gardenias."

What if you haven't wallowed in The Vampire Lestat's florid descriptions of me and my alleged delusions and errors?

He possessed, in Ybarra's florid description, "a mountainous body topped by a great shock of white hair over an impassive face dominated by a hawkish nose and two small blue eyes as sharp as daggers."

He'd asked for details at the begin- ning, and, after receiving a florid description of experiences he would never know himself, lost interest.

A newspaper in the Greek language was printed regularly with reports of church and community happenings and florid descriptions of weddings and baptisms.

Entire sub-menus are devoted to tea, cataloging exotic varieties with long, florid descriptions.

Mr. Galimir, who has been a leading exponent of Berg's music for nearly seven decades, shrugged off the composer's florid description recently with characteristic modesty.

His nickname "Sunset" came from a particularly florid description of a sunset in an article in the "Ohio Statesman.