Periphrasis"The putting of things in a roundabout way.
The severest test of the novel reader is not the interior-decorating lady author whose every point is petit; nor is it the literary bedroom peeper of the huff-puff-periphrasis .
Unlike most writers, Cunninghame Graham accurately characterized the mood of his own work: "I strove to write down that which I saw without periphrasis, sans flag-wagging, and .