Sentences with phrase «what turgid»
What turgid and presumptuous talk that is about the «God who becomes»; but we know unshakably in our hearts that there is a becoming of the God that is.»
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And it is in this task that the imagination, if it has been informed by acquaintanceship with the ways of men as immemorially they have uttered in speech their turgid and passionate hearts, may silently and in strange ways come to an apprehension of what otherwise eludes the mind.
Rooney was the perfect protagonist to settle what should go down as one of the most turgid, tatty contests between Liverpool and United of the modern era, and not only due to the dour campaign he has endured as an individual this season.
The movie is a turgid, swollen, wheezing old contraption, a crashing bore of special effects in which the most exciting moment gives us two ships sitting in water sending cannon balls at each other for what seems like hours on end.
It's possible to see some value in what Montiel was aiming for — even though the payoff finale is borderline offensive in its implications — but the turgid progress it makes in getting there is utterly self - defeating.
I have no idea what political metaphors for Chinese - American relations are buried in the gravyish CGI fog of The Great Wall (Universal, 12), a Hollywood - China co-production that meshes historical warfare, monster - movie fantasy and Matt Damonic heroism to eccentric but turgid effect, marking a career low for director Zhang Yimou.
Prisoners is directed well, apart from its length, by French - Canadian filmmaker Denis Villeneuve (Incendies, Maelstrom), from a sometimes nifty, sometimes turgid screenplay by Aaron Guzikowski (Contraband), which features narrative twists and turns to keep the audience guessing as to what might have happened to the two young girls, and also who holds the key to the answer of their whereabouts.
Even though it's readily available now, chances are you probably haven't bothered — so off - putting and utterly turgid is The Order's spin on what should've been a phenomenal concept.
From the poetical brevity of twitter to the turgid tomes of academia, what we write, and the way we write it, has the power to inform, to persuade and to influence.