Ian Anderson

If you're gonna use simile, analogy, metaphor, be descriptive and have some flowery adjectives and a few odd nouns and some engaging bits of dialogue or sentiment, then you're sort of writing a novel, really. But rock lyrics are not really known for their sophistication.

British Musician

Tobias Hill

At school, I was never given a sense that poetry was something flowery or light. It's a complex and controlled way of using language. Rhythms and the music of it are very important. But the difficulty is that poetry makes some kind of claim of honesty.

British Poet

Lynn Coady

I spent so many years in terror of 'making it legal' because the expression rang all too true - the wedding ritual struck me as nothing but a flowery front for the fulfilment of countless, tedious contracts and obligations.

Canadian Novelist

Kenneth Grahame

Slowly, but with no doubt or hesitation whatever, and in something of a solemn expectancy, the two animals passed through the broken tumultuous water and moored their boat at the flowery margin of the island.

Scottish Novelist

Mellody Hobson

People can be sensitive, so if I need to, I'll suck it up and be more flowery. I'll do what it takes to get the outcome I want. As I like to say, sometimes you have to crouch to conquer.

American Businessman

Sarah Millican

I never got up on stage and thought, 'I'll wear a flowery top so I can talk about dark evil things,' but it just so happens that that's the way I dress.

William M. Daley

You can use all the flowery words in the dictionary, but sooner or later, you have to let people know where you stand.

American Politician

Irvine Welsh

I don't want everything to be flowery perfection. I like it there to be a charge behind it, you know?

Frank Knox

God did not intend the human family to be wafted to heaven on flowery beds of ease.

American Public Servant

Ellie Goulding

I'm a bit of a like girly-girl, really, I like flowery stuff.

English Musician

Flowery, in this context, evokes a vivid image with its detailed and elaborate appearance.

Visual Imagery

Using flowery to describe appearance suggests that something is designed to stand out and attract attention.

Attention-Catching

Refers to designs far from being plain or minimalist; implies extravagance in visuals.

Not Subtle

Flowery language involves using more words than necessary, often to sound more impressive.

Embellished Speech

Be cautious as using flowery language excessively can make communication unclear or pretentious.

Possible Overuse

Flowery writing is commonly used in literature to create a beautiful, sometimes idealized, narrative voice.

Literary Device

Here, flowery is used in its most literal sense implying the presence or abundance of flowers.

Literal Flowers

A flowery setting often relates to bountifulness in nature and may evoke a sense of freshness or vitality.

Bountiful Nature

Describing a place as flowery might imply a certain time of the year, like spring or summer.

Seasonal Imagery

 or in the commercials, and there would be flowery prints all over the ovens, and it would be in bright pink and purple. Very gender-specific colors to females, right? So, it kind of was sending a message that only girls are supposed to cook. Boys aren't. And this discouraged my brother a lot.

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 We will not get the worldwide network of efficient cities that we need without major investment. We will not get a worldwide network of decarbonized cities just because we need it, we want it or because we make flowery declarations about it.