But the simplicity seemed to me too Hugoesque and I said: "Why didn't you ask him in to dinner?"

In their one-volume Hugoesque romance, The Earth Girl, bound in pale grass-green, with blood-red title, they have most unequivocally succeeded.

In his scheme of art there is no place for excess, however magnificent and Shakespearean—for exuberance, however overpowering and Hugoesque.