7.The idea that Buzzardville was to be left off at one side originated in their own fulsome brains--or rather in the settlings which they regard as brains.
8.Augustus's " Res Gestae" (" What I Did" ) was a fulsome autobiography written for just such public display, but the smallest town might put up a plaque, too.
9.The oldest meaning of " fulsome" was merely " abundant, plentiful" , but this connotation underwent a process that linguists call " pejoration" : the literal meaning stays roughly the same, but the sense of " in a bad way" is added.