A sentence I extracted from a particularly idiomatic piece of portuguese: > O primeiro, presença ofuscante na consciência social, tem nome definido e inscrição

A sentence I extracted from a particularly idiomatic piece of portuguese: > O primeiro, presença ofuscante na consciência social, tem nome definido e inscrição temporal supostamente clara: a crise financeira global. If you translate it idiomatically to English you have > The first of them is the global financial crisis. But if you translate if literally you have > The first, a blinding presence in the social consciousness, has a definite name and a supposedly clear temporal inscription: the global financial crysis. You will not believe me, but in portuguese all this extra unnecessary rhetoric reads a lot better than the equivalent in english. Also, there is a tendency in portuguese to write using as erudite a word as you can think of, which in English mostly sounds pathetic. I'm looking for better examples right now.