Sentences with word «turgidity»

Turgidity of language and argument belies its usefulness for the general reader, while its essentially descriptive character prevents the manifestation of anything profoundly new in relation to the ever - increasing corpuso f Newman studies that would require it to be essential reading for the scholar or expert.

This would seem to be pretty big talk coming from a guy who had dutifully packed his film to the point of turgidity with bluish double entendres, but Kubrick was completely right.

The few moments of genuine wonder in The BFG don't compensate for the picture's overall turgidity.

Signs of dehydration can include sunken eyes and skin turgidity.

In general, conventional methods of freezing tend to destroy the turgidity of living cells in fruit tissue.

Bovine tracheal cartilage is also rich in glycosaminoglycans which maintain and support collagen, elastin and turgidity (bounce) in the cellular spaces and keep protein fibers in balance and proportion.

Hands - down winner of the Wrongest Possible Project from the Very Beginning Award for 1975 is Conduct Unbecoming, a dreadful adaptation of a perhaps worse play, and a movie so misconceived — by the infallibly inept Michael Anderson — that its very attempts to juice itself with artificial life manage to exacerbate its turgidity.

To contemporary eyes, their pictorial strength is so self - evident, so enduringly fresh, you have to chuckle at those pundits who a half - century ago deemed Post Painterly Abstraction (both the style and the exhibition) a failed «rescue action for quality» against the «turgidities» of certain kinds of abstraction on the one hand and the vapidity of «newfangled art» on the other.

Post Painterly Abstraction (the term was coined by Greenberg to signal a break with what he called «the turgidities of second - generation Abstract Expressionism») was Greenberg's way of making real what he'd been writing about in such much - discussed essays as Modernist Painting, from 1961.

To write about art clearly you have to see it clearly: in truth, the muddy vagueness and turgidity of so much writing in art magazines and academic art history books reflects a turgidity of seeing.

Past exhibitions recall in - situ artworks of the renaissance with their emphasis on classical form, dynamism, and turgidity.

The fantasia of the unconscious gave way to a general dynamism; turgidity, to transparency; and the private obsession was dissolved in the epic, and in monumental designs.