floridness

How the floridness of the materials of cities shrivels before a man's or woman's look!

There's little fuss or floridness about his Augusta.

Such floridness is all the more noteworthy when you consider that Mr. Fugard has entertained a far starker outlook in the past.

In the hot summer light his floridness seemed heavy and bloated, and but for his erect square- shouldered walk he would have looked like an over-fed and over-dressed old man.

Mr. Davis lends a purplish floridness to his stay-at-home neurotic that is miles away from Mr. Bennett's more constipated version, while Ms. Chalfant finds a more sensual openness in the vicar's wife than Dame Maggie did.

Roberto had never seen a weeping palm, like a willow, but he had one before him, its multiple roots forming a paw from which rose a trunk that ended in a single clump, while the fronds of that plaintive plant sagged, exhausted by their own floridness.

Hans Proppe and Susan Tarr characterize Cinema Novo's third phase as "a mixed bag of social and political themes against a backdrop of characters, images and contexts not unlike the richness and floridness of the Brazilian jungle".