Florid in a sentence as an adjective

No; his real writing style is even more florid than that.

"By the time the kids in London got to see us, the symptoms were so florid and easy to see.

Entropy is realer than your florid prose, sorry.

Oh, sorry, the florid prose covered up the fact that you had scientifically proven your point.

It's kind of not a really well-defined idea, and he had a penchant for florid language, in places where he was compensating for not being precise.

It reads a bit like someone trying to make poetic reflections from the point of view of their dog, imagining what it must be thinking and inserting their own florid prose for laughs.

Using florid vocabulary doesn't legitimize your heavy-handed slap on the wrist to eps, who was, however misunderstood -- trying to help a fellow user.

"The planet's five ocean gyres and the risks of accumulated plastic pollution"Quite florid writing but the map of the planet's ocean gyres is beautifully done.

NYT headlines are often florid, pretentious and inappropriately "literary", even when dealing with serious and sad topics.

If the author had spent half as much time bothering to do research as he did coming up with florid expressions about how this screen was like a bunch of "Greek symbols" impervious to the casual glance, then the reviewer may have had more fun Fun.

It's tough to develop an animal model of the psychotic symptoms of mania, which is why this is not an easy problem to solve--how to develop a drug that makes depressed patients enjoy normal mood states without breaking through to florid mania.

Severe sleep deprivation can result in all the psychotic symptoms of florid mania even for most people without a medical history of mood disorders, and it is particularly dangerous for people who have already been through an episode of mania.

While I have no idea how you've drawn a link between florid prose and tech authors -- try reading articles in major media outlets about any topic and you will probably see a similar style -- the writing in this article is cringeworthy, and smacks of intellectual laziness.

Prose like this feels to me like the outcome of a peculiar disease which seems to affect particularly tech-oriented writers who have achieved a certain level of notoriety; the task of communicating ideas becomes subordinate to the florid expression of the author's own wonderfulness.

Florid definitions

adjective

elaborately or excessively ornamented; "flamboyant handwriting"; "the senator's florid speech"

See also: aureate flamboyant

adjective

inclined to a healthy reddish color often associated with outdoor life; "a ruddy complexion"; "Santa's rubicund cheeks"; "a fresh and sanguine complexion"

See also: rubicund ruddy sanguine