word-drunk

Portis's language is an archaic, biblically inflected 19th-century American English, free of contractions, a plainsong not averse to rhetorical filigree and curlicue – a perfect fit for the hyper-literate, word-drunk Coens.

With True Grit, the Coen brothers have given the western back its teeth 2011

His Hollywood Station police procedurals - peppered with the requisite gunshots and groin kicks, sleaze and sunshine - are word-drunk wonders.

Joseph Wambaugh's latest: Loopy theatrics and lyrical language Maureen Corrigan 2010

The result is a wild, crazy, word-drunk piece that intoxicates and baffles, but is destined to lodge in the memory.

Penelope 2010

His Hollywood Station police procedurals - peppered with the requisite gunshots and groin kicks, sleaze and sunshine - are word-drunk wonders.

Joseph Wambaugh's latest: Loopy theatrics and lyrical language Maureen Corrigan 2010

We are in a word-drunk season again, and yet we have a chance to do something spiritually and morally and silently wise.

The Spiritual Seductions of Eloquence 2008

Michael Dibdin's text, as usual, evokes not so much the terse action scenes of hardboiled masters as the word-drunk prose of such language-besotted authors as Anthony Burgess, Vladimir Nabokov and Lawrence Durrell.

Bookmarks 2007

But when the purpose of these posts serve as pale Dale Peck imitations e.g., "as word-drunk and pointless as a Foucault-worshipper's dissertation" used shortly before bemoaning name calling -- a hypocritical framing in the extreme, without a single reasonable argument or example, and are used as efforts to get attention, then I will ignore them.

Woof Woof: Who Let the Grads Out? : Edward Champion’s Reluctant Habits 2004

It took me some time to recover from this word-drunk debauch and to find my own natural intelligence again, the common sense that I was born with.

The Life and Letters of Walter H Page Hendrick, Burton J 1922

They wanted us to go back to the old Voodoo-business of voting with papers and wooden boxes, and word-drunk people and printed formulas, and news-sheets!

A Diversity of Creatures Rudyard Kipling 1900

They can get word-drunk, and make crowds, and invade privacy in the genuine old-fashioned way; and they'll do the voting trick as often as you ask

A Diversity of Creatures Rudyard Kipling 1900