Sentences with word «turgid»

The format of a typical course, from a student perspective, is to read through a punishing amount of turgid prose found in judicial decisions, passively listen... [more]

Written in turgid prose favored by lawyers, it spoke to packing the committee with (anti-Gallo) members «in an apparent effort to remake the committee to fit the desire and needs of the chairman [the unnamed Joe Donaldson].»

Horizon, fraught with turgid exposition dungeons, is both.

The format of a typical course, from a student perspective, is to read through a punishing amount of turgid prose found in judicial decisions, passively listen to a lecturer present the material, and then write a 100 % final exam for which your only feedback is (normally inflated) letter grade.

Why is it that the clichés that make for turgid art become acceptable and engaging when they are translated into celluloid?

The least powerful is the entry - level A160 petrol, with its 101bhp four - cylinder petrol engine, though at 10.6 sec to 62mph it's not as turgid as you might expect.

Examples of turgid structures abound in biology and have been used in engineering such things as liquid fueled rocket boosters.

While the Billionaires swap notes the millionaire manager and his millionaire players keep serving up turgid football in a soulless stadium in front of passionless fans as the club drifts toward another failed title bid.

The BBC's intelligence correspondent describes it as «pretty turgid stuff».

Oh course, back in the day Newgrounds wasn't packed with classics and there were hundreds of turgid messes churned out by would - be game developers looking to find an audience.

Italian director Luca Guadagnino, who previously worked with Tilda Swinton in the superb I Am Love, has a way of wringing core emotions out of rather turgid material, and finding a story worth telling.

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.»

The film's nominal story involves a terminally ill mother, a corpse found floating in the ocean, and a tentative teen romance; as usual, though, Kawase is mostly interested in having these characters speak her ideas aloud, handing them endless turgid dialogue about nature, death, and the link between the two.

The performances are great and although niche market, it's not turgid.

Between that and the constant shoegaze atmosphere that the movie puts forward, Code 46 almost becomes turgid.

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

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.

It's a fourth Wembley date in five years (in proper competitions) and it's hard not to be pleased that even in this most turgid of seasons we still get a day out.

Against Leicester City last term, although a drab, turgid affair, he showed how he can defend well against pace, despite not being the fastest himself.

Will United just look to grind this one out with a slow turgid performance like they have for much of the season?

Despite the lyrical sublimation of his more turgid style, something of the original tension of Pollock's feeling remained.

The film has both in spades: Never Enough, This Is Me or Rewrite the Stars would all win the Eurovision Song Contest, and the film's turgid story of self - actualisation dips into schmaltz just about every other minute.

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

Then there's the story - FF has always come replete with an over-complicated story full of turgid twists and turns, and FFXV does make some efforts to make its coming of age plot feel a lot of accessible, far too much of the important info you need is contained in the middling companion film Kingsglaive.

All teams look turgid against this park the bus Chelsea.

I won't spend three hours wading through turgid boring un-entertaining prose to save a dollar.

There are a few works that carry light like phosphorescence in their ribboning skeins, but others feel like turgid repetitions.

Where LOTR was at times so turgid it limped on like a mortally wounded Ent, Journey zips with a propulsive sense of adventure.

Even the Charismatic churches have gone down this road of turgid repetition, albeit at a faster, bouncier pace.

The only thing I've been doing is not turning up for some of the games, this wasn't done as a protest, it was done because I really couldn't be bothered going to watch the same turgid rubbish week after week.

Peter Debruge of Variety calls the film, «a talky and mostly turgid attempt by British director David Yates to build on the epic vision he brought to the final four Harry Potter movies via another beloved literary hero.»

At time it felt like the PM was ploughing through a particularly turgid political theory text book.

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

A 12 - minute rant in defence of himself, his players and tactics say more about him than a number of turgid results.

Actually I was comparing a pretty slow, turgid game with my memories of fast free flowing games of yesterday year.

The 19 - year - old attempted nine dribbles against Leicester City to try and spark some life into his team's turgid attack, but failed to beat his man in five of those attempts; the Foxes crowding out and closing down the only real source of movement in the final third — on and off the ball — within Louis van Gaal's forward line.

It recommended that parents should not be «addressed in the often turgid, sometimes impenetrable language of the curriculum».

Call it S.E. Hinton for the new millennium, the romanticization of bad behaviour in a frantic stew turgid enough to embalm instead of bronze.

Analysts remain skeptical that much, if any, positive outcome will result from a president who is known for staking his political survival by increasingly leaning on the powerful agro-industrial lobby, particularly in the midst of turgid corruption scandals.

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.»

I should point out that while most books on economics are fairly turgid, and often full of graphs and complex equations, there is none of this in Human Goods, Economic Evils.

William Abraham spoke for many postconservatives when, after writing that Carl F. H. Henry's God, Revelation and Authority is «the monument of a generation's work,» he added: «Yet given its barren orthodoxy and turgid character, it can at best inspire mediocrity.»

If you think that turgid garbage is good writing, you need help.

Younger Catholics use «Kum - by - ya» as a sort of catch - all expression for turgid 1970s ditties they despise and find embarrassing.

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.

Even Wenger can not believe this decision will be welcomed by every Arsenal fan though, or even by the majority of us unless wee some king of turnaround in form from the timid and turgid e3fforst that have seen us slip from third place to sixth in recent weeks, with a record breaking Champions League exit at the hands of Bayern Munich thrown in.

To be honest I never thought of it myself until the other day, when I was watching the frankly turgid friendly game between Belgium and Finland and I heard the commentator say that Vermaelen was set to be a first choice starter for his country at Euro 2016,.