DiscApp ID # 206964
Article ID # 602148
Author Merlin
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IP 24.187.27.4
Date Thu May 9, 2013 10:42:11
Subject I was rather impressed with the style of this sentence

"You are at the top of the list, however, among those who are grossly inebriated with the exuberance of their own verbosity."

Not often you read a sentence with such panache nowadays on these boards, essays by professional writers and journalists, or even novels of supposedly high literary merit.

"A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself."

Disraeli, Benjamin


The Brits of the 19th century had a way with words, particularly the policians.

A tip of the hat to shadow for having the linguistic good taste to "sample" Disraeli, albeit in an otherwise utterly tasteless piece of particularly purple prose attacking without provocation simply because he and Uber were in disagreement about something and engaged in a heated yet civil discussion.