Sentences with phrase «so turgid»

Maybe then, at last, those specialist journals would cease to be so turgid.

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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.»

It was very, very neatly done - especially so as it followed a turgid set of exchanges over NHS waiting times.

Brewer, whose son was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes at age 7, was so frustrated with the turgid pace of development that in 2004 he offered $ 1 million to JDRF (formerly known as the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation) if the group could bring together researchers, manufacturers and the FDA to talk seriously about getting an artificial pancreas to market.

REMEMBER ME is a turgid excuse for a perceptive character study / romance that pins its hopes on a twist that is not so much a jolt as an affront.

This makes for an intensely readable experience — there is no turgid academism that needs excising in these tautly - rendered two hundred or so pages.

by Walter Chaw Stephen Frears, like antipodean director Phillip Noyce before him, found the Hollywood waters to be a touch turgid and so in 2000 went back to the small country where he first rose to prominence.

Perhaps it seems like over-thinking to quibble with the ideological talking points of a movie that mostly dawdles from one skit or cameo to another, interspersed with the occasional song - and - dance number, and which contains one of the best comic set pieces of the Coens» career: a director and his recently re-cast lead trying to work through a single awful line of dialogue («Would that it were so simple») while filming a turgid melodrama.

With so much at stake, how did we get into this turgid mess?

Still, that book had done so little justice to the characters I had loved — or held in extreme dislike (Ashley Wilkes is second only to the Reverend Dimmesdale on my wimpy literary men hate list)-- on the screen that I never did pick up Gone With the Wind, thinking it would prove another turgid potboiler.

If, after a day or so, the scrotum is very swollen (turgid) and not stabilizing or shrinking, call your veterinarian as soon as possible to rule out an active internal bleeding situation.

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.

The turgid shapes come as a particular surprise, because the official history leaves so little room for them.

The passages of heavy impasto and deliberate mark - making continually remind us of the material substance of the paint, and in doing so bar us from entering into the subject or scene of the painting in a way that is echoed by the imagery itself: a closed gate, a drawn curtain, a screen of branches, a turgid wall of water crowding out the sky.

Part of the problem is that Ravetz suffers «reverse Eschenbach syndrome» — so impenetrably turgid and prolix is his prose that any subject it touches turns to mud.

He gives long diatribes, and writes turgid tomes, that are so convoluted, with so many made up terms, that they are unintelligible.

If climatologits could be persuaded to adopt a style somewhere between the impenetrably turgid and the arrogant smug superiority that so many feel is the birthright of «real climate scientists», they might be more persuasive in making the case that not all of climatology is pseudoscience.