Sentences with phrase «often turgid»
It recommended that parents should not be «addressed in the often turgid, sometimes impenetrable language of the curriculum».
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Whether one considers the drearily stylized, solemnly insipid droning that so often emanates from the courts or the unmoored and turgid expositions of wearisome ideologies characteristic of more adventurous academic literature, there is very little in the discourse that merits the title of «reason.»
Future: The 2015 winner of the Golden Boy award (and number eight on Squawka's countdown of the 23 best players under 23 in world football right now) Martial has already become the star getting fans off their seats at Old Trafford within a team that has often been criticised for their turgid football.
Though we are largely spared Leonard Nimoy's stentorian presence as a performer, we must endure his miscalculations as a director: the dialogue scenes are often hilariously turgid; the action scenes — when Nimoy can be bothered to descend from his podium and film them — are zanily maladroit.
Interesting for some extreme choices but more often than not a bit turgid, Red Sparrow plays like a missed opportunity at something more malicious and subversive than it ends up being.
Director Francis Lawrence's movie has some smarts and some thrills, but too often it feels like a turgid, repetitive slog, especially compared to the excitement and the cliffhanger ending of its predecessor, «Catching Fire» (which Lawrence also directed).