No, you needn't say more. That's the stuff I mean, too.

I've really worked at trimming this from my own writing over the years. The stuff that I use to think was the height of expressive prose, I now see much of it as pretentious crap.

I'm constantly working on that! As I said above, it's sometimes hard to tell from inside the story when you're (I'm) doing that. Often I only see it with time and distance.