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effusive

(of rock) formed by the solidification of magma
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It all sounds terribly serious -- yet in fact that's just Oya Akin's personality, an out-there, headlong effusiveness which manifests itself in fun things too, not just worthy causes.
Later estate panegyrics tend towards length and effusiveness, filled out with digressions, elaborations, repetitions, and instances of throat-clearing paralipsis of the kind discussed above ("should I be so mad to go about / To give account of ev'ry thing throughout...").
Hence, Haskell remarks, the exaggerated effusiveness with which he greeted a succession of British visitors, 'only to be treated by them with a supercilious disdain, may now strike us as being more pathetic than offensive'.
So, we can conclude that, "apart from occasional naive remarks and a certain effusiveness, [...] the notebooks reproduce faithfully what Menger said." (Streissler and Streissler, 1994, p.
The amendment is in line with the model rules of procedure and conduct of business for the provincial assemblies that FAFEN has drafted with the objective of improving transparency, executive oversight, responsiveness, accountability and effusiveness of the provincial legislatures.
If something can be described as 'awesomely' or 'achingly' beautiful, one can imagine how a person with a more colorful vocabulary can express the same effusiveness with words like 'fuckingly brilliant.' According to Pinker, the Irish celebrity Bono promptly got into trouble after he uttered this phrase on national television at a Golden Globe Awards presentation.
At the same time, he parodied the effusiveness of Debussy and Ravel in Sports et divertissements (1914).
Once in her stride, there is no stopping her effusiveness:
Momentarily, singing (and by extension creativity, invention) offers a potential common language, a way of connecting, or so the speaker, in his Romantic effusiveness, believes.
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