0 with too much decoration or detail:
a florid architectural style
1 (of a person's face) too red, especially in a way that is unhealthy:
a florid complexion
2 too red, esp. in a way that is unhealthy:
a florid complexion
3 with too much decoration or detail:
a florid architectural style
In other words, what techniques did the singers have at their disposal for elaborating and enabling such florid and extravagant vocal practices to take shape?
The second- and third-act arias are scarcely less challenging, each featuring long florid lines rising to c3.
No treatment effects were seen in patients receiving doses less than 400 chlorpromazine equivalents daily, and almost none were observed in patients displaying significant florid psychotic symptoms.
The impressive effectiveness of these agents in relieving florid positive symptoms of schizophrenia has permitted a whole population of formerly institutionalized patients to live in the community.
When they speak of confidence, clearly such can only be the confidence of blind arrogance or a florid dementia.
I shall put on one side some of the more florid adjectives to which he is suited.
Of course, at the beginning he could not resist the old florid temptation to talk about electoral promises and all that.
I am sure he will be kind enough to note my possibly florid and hot-tempered remarks and answer them.
