The focus of the florid ornamentation is an elaborately sculptured surround to a main doorway. Mannerism in literature and music is notable for its highly florid style and intellectual sophistication. Some of the florid passages are very intricate. In him classical poetry seemed to revive in all its florid grandeur. Bel canto lines are typically florid and intricate, requiring supreme agility and pitch control. Gould's writing style was highly articulate, but sometimes florid, indulgent, and rhetorical. In his typically florid prose, he issued a Manifesto explaining the coup to the people. He makes rich use of decorative language and florid compound adjectives. Wilson described Pazzi as a "florid, sadomasochistic neurotic". Without being florid or cosmic, she beckons to a far more graceful, honest world. Downes argues that the style avoids "florid decoration", emphasising an organic, flowing Gothic structure. There were more repeats of words and perhaps more florid vocalisations. More florid than his later work, the story strongly bore the influence of William Faulkner. Sir Edward is described as a silly and very florid man, though handsome. The works of decorative art are florid in style.