Results for prosopopeyas translation from Spanish to English

entre alemÁn y ortega las prosopopeyas encubren algo muy sencillo: no es el presidencialismo ni el parlamentarismo, es el continuismo.
all this pomp and ceremony is covering up something very simple: it’s not about either presidentialism or parlia-mentarianism; it’s about staying in power.

al verlo se intuía que en su lenguaje habitual debía prodigar las prosopopeyas, las metonimias y las hipálages, pero nunca pude comprobarlo, pues siempre empleó ante mí un singular idioma, absolutamente incomprensible.
you could sense that his everyday conversation must have been packed with such vivid figures of speech as personification, symbolism, and misplaced modifiers. but i was never in a position to verify this because, around me, he used only an odd and utterly incomprehensible dialect.

hablamos siempre con mucha prosopopeya de estándares europeos que, realmente, no existen como tales, y exigimos a menudo a terceros estados el cumplimiento de criterios que muchos de los estados miembros ni siquiera están dispuestos a cumplir.
we always talk very pompously about european standards - which, in reality, do not exist in this form - and often demand that other countries meet criteria which many of our own eu member states are not prepared to comply with themselves.