Sentences with phrase «writes turgid»
He gives long diatribes, and writes turgid tomes, that are so convoluted, with so many made up terms, that they are unintelligible.
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Murphy, who is a right - wing ideologue, also writes a turgid column for the pro-business National Post, where he rails against environmentalists on global warming, champions the oil sands and pipelines, and protests any effort to fight climate change.
Not exact matches
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.
Oh, if you could read the turgid stuff that I wrote thirty years ago.
Turgid undergraduate books about heat transfer in university libraries all write that radiation emitted by a colder body is absorbed by a hotter body.
Most folk probably have little time for reading turgid crap written by Sheldon Walker.
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.»
And we hope to spread the growing scorn for legal writing that is archaic, turgid, obscure, and needlessly dull.
Founded in 1953 Scribes seeks to «spread the growing scorn for legal writing that is archaic, turgid, obscure and needlessly dull».
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).
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.