The accompanying remarks by the contributing commentators, while occasionally given to florid prose, provide a useful, if necessarily limited, historical context.

Allen starred in issue 23, which was styled after a Silver Age comic, complete with complicated foot notes and florid prose.

Ms. Cassidy wrote an energetic, often florid prose, and she took no prisoners.

Ms. Gould's florid prose matches the cat-and-mouse melodrama of her premise.

Despite the story's somewhat florid prose (Hushed were the streets of many peopled Thebes.

And it transmitted a sense of the weightiness of the events he illuminated in florid, rolling, portentous prose.

The florid prose of tabloid reporters catapulted the unrepentant divorcee into the public eye.

Other reviewers are put off by Angier's ecstatic, florid prose.

In his typically florid prose, he issued a Manifesto explaining the coup to the people.

White's fiction employs humour, florid prose, shifting narrative vantage points and a stream of consciousness technique.