Sentences with phrase «most turgid»

David is internationally well known and respected as a lively speaker, capable of transforming the most turgid of modern pain sciences into instantly relevant, clinically applicable information.

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.

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It must be further pointed out that De Rougemont takes the most elaborately dramatized and perverse examples of romanticism such as the Tristan legend with its turgid morbidities, its pathos, and its obsession with adultery, and treats this as the essence of romantic love.

Your best, most direct route to perfectly turgid (thank you 9th grade science teacher, Mrs. Ramos, for teaching me that word) meringues is to make them on a DRY day and then (on top of it all) to show an infinite amount of patience.

To give Mourinho his due, his key signings of last summer have made the difference this season, but they are still a pretty turgid team to watch most of the time.

Sturridge was one of England's most impressive performers in their turgid midweek win over Norway at Wembley, with captain Wayne Rooney struggling for involvement, meaning that Hodgson is likely to have had to rip up his plans after the Liverpool man was ruled out.

The # 20m fee was met with a mixed reaction, by an Everton fanbase that has endured turgid football for the most part of 2017/18.

They were sharp and incisive for most of the game in that one, a far cry from some of the turgid stuff they had churned out before that that this season.

Where Sam Taylor - Johnson's spin on Fifty Shades of Grey put the debonair, elusive billionaire businessman on equal footing with the charmingly awkward English student cum hardware store clerk Anastasia Steele (Dakota Johnson), Fifty Shades Darker languished in its continued fidelity to James's turgid, wheel - spinning plotting, devoting most of its attention to a doomed investigation into Christian's supposed psyche and blaming his BDSM habit on a prostitute mother and the sexual tutelage of Elena (Kim Basinger), the trilogy's Mrs. Robinson figure.

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.

The addition of David Fincher's most boring and turgid film comes as no surprise to me at this point.

Boasting none of the lyricism, grace or psychological incisiveness of his prior masterworks (Paris, Texas; Wings Of Desire), Wenders» latest is a misbegotten stew of turgid drama and look - at - me 3 - D gimmickry, with the director using his signature special effects to highlight foreground - background dynamics in the most unnecessarily self - conscious manner possible.

Not only was its color rather washed out, but its page - refresh rate was turgid and its price of approximately # 750 ($ 1,115) attracted only the most ardent early adopters.

Most folk probably have little time for reading turgid crap written by Sheldon Walker.

Today, most lawyers will recognize that writing or saying in praesenti («in the present»), contradicto in adjecto («contradiction in terms»), or ex abundenti cautela («out of abundant caution») is to present «pompous, turgid deadwood.»