Corena possessed a big, handsome, resonant voice that lacked sufficient flexibility to deliver accurately the complexities of Rossini's florid writing.

The work is well organized arranged, and its style, modeled on Xenophon, is simple, especially when compared with the florid writing of other Greek authors of the period.

Suzie Leblanc sang the title role gracefully and with both a sweet tone and clarity in the more florid writing.

On another topic, I offer belated apologies, Your Holiness, for my brother's rather florid writing.

The book is marred by florid writing and weakened by unsurprising conclusions - for example, that international parks must replace national parks if the tiger is to be saved.

Tyberg seems to have been an earnest, rigorous and well-organized practitioner of sonata form and, to judge from the florid writing, a good pianist.

Some of his other sacred music, such as his Marian motets, contain florid melodic writing and some use of imitation.

But this promising sense of playfulness soon runs aground in florid and derivative writing.

Ensemble pieces were less polished, and in duets with tandem florid writing, the singers were rarely together.

She handled Rossini's florid writing and Mr. Gossett's embellishments with assurance and agility, and her voice blossomed nicely as the performance progressed.