Sentences with phrase «with turgid»

Horizon, fraught with turgid exposition dungeons, is both.

Dorothy Woodend: There is a good film buried in the midst of director Dees Rees's Mudbound, but it is covered over with turgid dramaturgy, overlapping narratives, and a determination to seemingly include every possible horror and affliction that might attend rural life in 1940s Mississippi.

Martin Zandvliet, director of Oscar - nominated war drama Land of Mine, makes an awkward, baffling leap to something resembling Hollywood with this turgid, shockingly -LSB-...]

Tony Scott, whose late - period movies are nearly as guilty for spreading the shakycam virus as anything Greengrass did, had a big hit with the turgid revenge flick Man On Fire, a movie whose reputation rests almost entirely on a strong Denzel Washington performance that the movie doesn't really earn.

The Farrellys are stuck with a turgid 10 - year - old screenplay and have devised a smorgasbord of political incorrectness that dares you to take offense.

Although Hawke and Travolta did their best with the turgid material, how on earth do fools

Current French Belle Du Jour Melanie Laurent makes her directorial debut with this turgid melodrama.

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.

Those countless tabloid front pages with turgid lies about immigrants have an effect.

It must be further pointed out that De Rougemont takes the most elaborately dramatized and perverse examples of romanticism such as the Tristan legend with its turgid morbidities, its pathos, and its obsession with adultery, and treats this as the essence of romantic love.

Not exact matches

His mother would go down into the earth with Speed [their dog], her liver large as a toilet seat, a bag girt to her turgid flank to catch her waste.

And it is in this task that the imagination, if it has been informed by acquaintanceship with the ways of men as immemorially they have uttered in speech their turgid and passionate hearts, may silently and in strange ways come to an apprehension of what otherwise eludes the mind.

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.

Sturridge was one of England's most impressive performers in their turgid midweek win over Norway at Wembley, with captain Wayne Rooney struggling for involvement, meaning that Hodgson is likely to have had to rip up his plans after the Liverpool man was ruled out.

The # 20m fee was met with a mixed reaction, by an Everton fanbase that has endured turgid football for the most part of 2017/18.

Christian Benteke is undeniably gifted but, as illustrated by a turgid display at West Ham, his immobility doesn't seem to fit in with Liverpool's mantra.

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

Playing a turgid long ball game, with no width to speak of, watched by a crowd who almost resent being there to watch.

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

As a consequence it lacks immediacy or flair; whole entries are turgid or bogged down with lengthy digressions, and overall it feels padded out rather than judiciously edited.

And on procurement, the current comptroller — whose office sees every check cut by the city before it goes out — smartly characterized the issue of turgid budgets for city technology projects by observing, «it actually doesn't have much to do with technology itself.»

The idea of four New Labour ministers engaging in a turgid, managerial debate in public for a number of months, would not have offered the real debate the party needed, and filled me with dread.

If you caught the brief extracts the Guardian media blog ran a while back, you might at least have expected this turgid mess to be leavened with a few hilarious sex scenes.

Even the individual turgid with blood wouldn't be of much help for ID - ing the host.

A turgid affair with John Garfield having to choose either socialite Joan Crawford or his bow strings.

Where Sam Taylor - Johnson's spin on Fifty Shades of Grey put the debonair, elusive billionaire businessman on equal footing with the charmingly awkward English student cum hardware store clerk Anastasia Steele (Dakota Johnson), Fifty Shades Darker languished in its continued fidelity to James's turgid, wheel - spinning plotting, devoting most of its attention to a doomed investigation into Christian's supposed psyche and blaming his BDSM habit on a prostitute mother and the sexual tutelage of Elena (Kim Basinger), the trilogy's Mrs. Robinson figure.

A turgid story with dull acting and horrible singing.

This film really was supernaturally turgid — probably, the decision to split the fourth Twilight book into two movies was a bit of a mistake, since it means treacly pacing, and an endless fascination with Bella's emaciation and monster pregnancy.

Though the script is turgid, predictable and quite irresponsible, the film succeeds where it needs to, where Felicity Jones rises above all the dross with a shining leading performance which put her on the showbiz map.

Boasting none of the lyricism, grace or psychological incisiveness of his prior masterworks (Paris, Texas; Wings Of Desire), Wenders» latest is a misbegotten stew of turgid drama and look - at - me 3 - D gimmickry, with the director using his signature special effects to highlight foreground - background dynamics in the most unnecessarily self - conscious manner possible.

Certainly not in doubt is the quality of the ensemble; Michael Shannon has been with Nichols since the beginning (his only non-starring role was Mud, and we can thank Zack Snyder's turgid Man of Steel for that), and his weathered, craggy face is perhaps not classically that of a warm father figure (he didn't exactly convey much warmth in Take Shelter), but Shannon is a consummate professional and one of the better actors of the current era, settling into this role of a caring father with a capable - of - anything survivalist streak with aplomb.

Crossbones (NBC)-- everything we expected the Michael Bay produced Black Sails to be — turgid, florid, meandering pap with explosions.

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.

Otherwise, as with adverbs and fluff words, you'll have turgid, bland, and verbose content.

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

His analysis suffers from all the intellectual flabbiness (for example, claiming that «the U.S. is fascist,» or that «the greed and avarice of the U.S. ruling class are seemingly unparalleled in history») and turgid prose (like his reference to the «Dickensianizing of postmodern megalopolises,» or his final chapter, entitled, «Unthinking Whiteness: Critical Citizenship in Gringolandia») that are commonly associated with the postmodern genre.

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.

Although the 780 initially made it to the United States for the ’87 model year, it really came into its own two years later when the turgid V - 6 that Volvo shared with Peugeot and Renault was joined by a more sporting turbocharged four - cylinder, the rear suspension having been upgraded from solid axle to independent the previous year.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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

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).

- 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.