This is language that gives a new and better meaning to the term "purple prose."
It puts the meaningless purple prose of other critics in perspective.
Still, the purple prose does its job of conveying awe at the natural world.
Expect a significant increase in purple prose from columnists and commentators.
When a situation cries out for purple prose, we are not found wanting.
To see more pictures, you have to wade through some rather purple prose at another site, www.duth.gr/Athos.
With prose so insistently purple, who could read it and keep a straight face?
Talk in purple prose; let the results surprise you.
"Double that by morning, more if Loew got the press excited with his purple prose."
On second thought he dismissed purple prose that he had planned to use.