purple prose not polite

But I didn't come to gaze and issue purple prose.

When a situation cries out for purple prose, we are not found wanting.

This is language that gives a new and better meaning to the term "purple prose."

The writing is uneven, sometimes sinking to the level of purple prose.

Talk in purple prose; let the results surprise you.

I have a tendency to like the baroque, just this side of purple prose.

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.

Will their purple prose translate into cold hard profits?

The highway attracts such purple prose for good reason.

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.

The purple skin is accompanied by purple prose of a sort.

She said with a chuckle that it would then be “probably purple prose.”

To see more pictures, you have to wade through some rather purple prose at another site, www.duth.gr/Athos.

Oh Red, what purple prose you've been given.

First, the author clearly feels the subject is too dry for the general reader so overcompensates with purple prose.

But his penchant for purple prose does not exclude sober political calculation.

Prospects don't have time - or inclination - to scroll through purple prose.

The speech contained a lot of purple prose and grandiose platitudes.

Purple prose is sensuously evocative beyond the requirements of its context.

But the author remains too enamored of purple prose for purpleness's sake.

He wrote bad poetry himself and sometimes in his early book reviews a schoolboy purpled prose.

I'd run to Johnny's pad and pounce on her packet of purple prose then.

Unlike its rivals it never lurched into purple prose or self-righteousness.