8 adjectives to describe amplification

There are occasions when the simplest and fewest words surpass in effect all the wealth of rhetorical amplification.

As in architecture an excess of decoration is to be avoided, so in the art of literature a writer must guard against all rhetorical finery, all useless amplification, and all superfluity of expression in general; in a word, he must strive after chastity of style.

Some of them appear to be idle amplifications of story tellers, while others are transparent myths.

It is a delightful example of the minor ballad literature, and I am by no means inclined to regard it as a mere amplification of the much shorter and rather abrupt Bonny May of Herd's collection, though the latter, so far as it goes, probably offers a less sophisticated text.

The whole question, of the rights of the people was contained in the cause of Rabinius; and accordingly we indulged in every conceivable amplification.

The expression is always a splendid amplification of the simple fact.

The work passed through two editions in the year of its appearance, the second bearing the author's name, and at the time of Chamberlayne's death it had, with successive amplifications, reached its twentieth edition.

[30] This whole scene recalls the dialogue between Angélique and Lisette in the first scene of Dancourt's l'Été des Coquettes (July 12, 1690), and may be a clever amplification of the same.

8 adjectives to describe  amplification