I guess in Feller's day, teammates spoke to one another with flowery prose and bend-over-backwards politeness!

Al-Aqqad was known for his use of flowery and complicated prose.

His songs resound with such details, unadulterated by flowery prose or elaborate references.

The diary entries are full of flowery and emotional prose about her new love, a violinist who apparently specialized in the music of Paganini.

The book also pokes fun at education and how gullible people can be deceived by flowery prose.

Does flowery prose actually distract from a story, or do you just not find it useful for your purposes?

It was not Disraeli's flowery prose that had stirred up the devil in him, but the savage power of his own memories.

The College Journal appeared monthly, describing the activities of the college and its students in "the flowery prose of the time."

Travelers made pilgrimages to these sites and then wrote about them in flowery prose.

Hampshire found it "good value", his only problem having been reading "the rather flowery prose without being laughed down by the players".