It's all too symmetrical, too schematic, and the flowery language, overburdened with butterflies, swans and broken-winged angels, exacerbates its rarefied, overblown quality.

I make them short and conversational; flowery language and theological jargon don't make sense to the sorrowing family.

We eschew flowery language but use endless evasions and circumlocutions that sound polite to us, but maddeningly vague to others.

No opaque or flowery language: it just did exactly what it said on the bottle.

However, it can be expressed in flowery language about a wish to keep you 'informed about developments' or 'updated on news' about the charity.