Sentences with phrase «turgid e3fforst»

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.

Without numbers, your resume 2015 format will be dull, turgid, and will tell a hiring manager very little.

Feel free to blame the turgid, perennially - overcast British climate.

- a bright, hi - res screen, in contrast to the Surge's rather turgid greyscale number, notifications, and all the usual good things you get with Fitbit devices.

Frustration at the turgid, pedantic, Latin - filled, jargon - ridden, misspelt, ungrammatical, and inelegant writing that issues from the pens and keyboards of lawyers, law students, and those who come within their orbit (assistants can have an unfortunate tendency to replicate the bad habits of those they work with).

Compared to the title insurance premiums, the legal fees are a bargain because at least the lawyer is actually doing something useful and beneficial while the title insurance premium provides coverage not much above the level of a scam (read up on that industry's abysmal record of burying gaps in coverage in the turgid fine print and equally abysmal record of not paying claims that are more than a few hundred dollars worth of tax arrears).

Founded in 1953 Scribes seeks to «spread the growing scorn for legal writing that is archaic, turgid, obscure and needlessly dull».

Believe it or not, but legal prose can be turbid, turgid and really quite impenetrable.

Once upon a time, lawyers, bred on a steady diet of the old, dense, and turgid legal opinions that law students today still must trudge through as some sort of right of passage, relied purely on logic to advocate for their clients.

In college it was Hegel, Heidegger, and «the incomprehensibles,» as I like to call them, the turgid philosophers.

And we hope to spread the growing scorn for legal writing that is archaic, turgid, obscure, and needlessly dull.

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.»

Frustration at the turgid, pedantic, Latin - filled, jargon - ridden, misspelt, ungrammatical, and... [more]

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]

A very turgid derivation is given in Goody and Yung.

I could wish he'd avoided the need by instead slicing away the turgid dramatic interpretations Pearce wove into his narratives before they were published.

Her prose was turgid, her plot lines thin and her philosophy was utter naive - realist garbabe.

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

You do not poverty to try to enshroud your turgid view, and they

The IPCC gets the award for turgid prose.

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.

Turgid nonsense in fact.

Turgid undergraduate books about heat transfer in university libraries all write that radiation emitted by a colder body is absorbed by a hotter body.

(The philosophy involved in this gets quite turgid, but a lot of people follow the indifference principle and assign equal probabilities to each possibility — assuming you know how many possibilities there actually are.

If you want Turgid forget the Germans and read some of the minor Russian Classics.

Guess i chickened out, heard he's a writer of turgid prose, (hmm, probably German.)

Turgid structures are stronger than would be estimated by the bulk properties of the internal fluid or the mechanical strength of the skin alone.

Turgid structures are the ultimate in non-linear behavior.

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

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.

In all of the graphics and take - home points in the panel's synthesis effort, the only language I can find on these points is turgid and buried.

Personally Crawford appears to shy from turgid prose.

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

It is this same, turgid dichotomy found therein, that also characterizes Bridle's internal tension as both pieces represent reflections of each other and of her being.

Others, such as the maritime selections from Chadwick's Illustrated History (garishly colored images from children's historical coloring books juxtaposed with lubricious bits of maritime jargon), are frankly hilarious, as are the Contemporary Sterns (photographs of undistinguished Dutch canal boats attached to turgid maritime narratives involving various hapless Chadwicks).

The late, turgid Bratby was a surprise but his «kitchen sink» epic The Greenhouse (1958) is a match for the Doigs next door.

Unfortunately it hints at the turgid catalog that accompanies the show.

He didn't want to participate with the teachers; he'd go off the corner and do his moody cityscapes, very gray, slatey gray and brown, turgid things and ignore the teacher.

Hanging opposite the elevators on the new Whitney's fifth floor, as a kind of preamble to «Frank Stella: A Retrospective,» are Pratfall (1974), a precise arrangement of 12 concentric squares in contrapuntal grays that sucks the viewer into its black core; six untitled photographs, from the late 1980s, of curling smoke that looks like jellyfish, or ink dispersing in water; and Earthquake in Chile (1999), a 40 - foot - long, turgid mess of a painting.

The writings hailed largely from the years spanning 1952 — when Bourgeois was refining her brand of metaphoric abstraction in her Personages, a series of precariously assembled totemic structures — to 1964, when Bourgeois debuted her now - canonical sculptural aesthetic of turgid, visceral forms rendered in emotive arrays of latex, wax, and resin.

In sharp contrast there is «Bush,» (1985, Collection Howard and Linda Karshan), a slimy, turgid amalgam of ugly greens and violets, recalling sludge and murky ponds and the more unpalatable sensations associated with nature.

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.

In the stifled, historically turgid world of contemporary art, Le Melle seems like a breath of fresh air and a welcome sigh of relief for Artpace, which has had four executive directors in the past five years — including Sue Graze, who served as interim director for a year when Amada Cruz left to lead the Phoenix Art Museum in January 2015.

First Tree, for example, reflects the vitality of all trees, while Junction, an utterly different sort of interaction, shows the turgid twists and turns, stops and starts, that are the distinctive markings of one very mature tree.

Instead, Abstract Expressionism led to all manner of variations and reactions: second - generation Ab - Exers who lyrically rounded off the movement's epic impulses; minimalists who discarded turgid gestures for visions of epic materiality; the faux - expressionist paintings by Gerhardt Richter and Sigmar Polke that undermined Ab - Ex's very aspirations for the epic.

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

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.

The latest event in the turgid «Xbox VS Playstation» saga has Xbox boasting of true 4k capability, something which the PS4 lacks.

The combat system does deserve some praise, and is the only beacon of light in this turgid crap pile.

minus two, and words like orotund, grandiloquent and turgid!