1.   William Holden plays a hack scriptwriter down on his luck, and his purple prose gives the film its biting tone.

2.   ...passages of purple prose describing intense experiences.

3.   Her writing was full of purple prose.

4.   Lady Thatcher will be honing her purple prose for the debate in the Lords.

5.   But his penchant for purple prose does not exclude sober political calculation.

6.   Every new U.S. administration faces a test of wills with Pyongyang and the resulting purple prose.

7.   He will not paint the past in purple prose, just to make everyone feel good.

8.   I once published an essay in defense of purple prose, since then much anthologized as a report from Cockaigne or Samarkand.

9.   Meanwhile, the NWU Web site is aflame with the kind of purple prose that only writer-activists can produce.