What is "effusive"

Usage examples of "effusive".

Paul regarded Pet Sounds as one of the greatest popular-music albums ever made and was effusive in its praise, particularly for the way in which it proved that the bass player need not play the root note of a chord but can weave a melody around it of its own.

Sasaki and Johnson had been effusive in their greetingsquite understandable, considering it had been almost ten months since the last cycleship lander had touched down at Cydonia Basebut Jessup had brusquely demanded that they accompany him to the habitat.

It will be remembered that the early Arab poets described men, women, animals, and their surroundings in their effusive Kasidas before prose-writing was established.

After the effusive greetings at the airport from Uncle Wally and Auntie Joan and their delight at seeing the quads again, they had driven out to the private jet bearing the logo of Immelmann Enterprises and had climbed aboard.

At the celebration, in fact, Pomponia had been so rarely effusive in a circle of confidantes that she had expressed herself quite candidly about the empress mother.

He ended with effusive thanks to the donors, and an invitation to have cake and to book their conferences into the castle next year.

Natasha suspected that he might have overstated the woman's importance and wasn't at all sure she liked the way Berna had waxed effusive on Brandy Bates' accomplishments.

Effusive enough when introduced to Lucy in the hall, Gwyn was now concertedly loving her upon a sofa beneath the mullioned window, against a galaxy of lamplit snow.

He poured out further effusive apologies to Shepherd, until he realized that too many mea culpas could be worse than none at all.

He was coldly effusive at meeting the defecting Americans about whom the radio had been spouting.

When he and foul-mouthed Max made contact with a Red Army unit still in the direct chain of command from Moscow, the Soviets had been effusive in their praise and scrupulously exact in sharing out the precious booty Germans and Russians had combined to seize.

He had met Davis in person the next year at the rug weavers' cooperative auction at Crownpoint, and Davis's thanks had been embarrassingly effusive.

Then with effusive farewells and a final wink Mathis bowed himself out.

He had also written the Major, whom he had never known particularly well, a somewhat too effusive letter, expressing the hope that he would indeed be the new Washington.

They obviously passed muster, for she made a deep curtsy, spreading her gray skirts wide, and made effusive welcome, inquiring whether the Lady was on her way to or from Amador.