How To Use tumidity In A Sentence
- Varicose veins usually result in tumidity, atony and pains in the legs as well as eczema and ulcers, causing great trouble to the patients.
- The orchestra added little apart from a certain unwelcome tumidity to music that would have been more at home as a Hollywood soundtrack.
- The exposure of the upper person shows the size and tumidity of the areola, even in young girls; being unsupported, the mammae soon become flaccid. Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo
- The exposure of the upper person shows the size and tumidity of the areola, even in young girls; being unsupported, the mammae soon become flaccid. Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo
- The diction has in places a huge and rugged grandeur, which degenerates here and there into tumidity. Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth
- Most of those who fall into this type, straying from the type they began with, are misled by the appearance of grandeur and cannot perceive the tumidity of the style. from the Rhetorica ad Herennium. jeff vandermeer says: Grokking the Subaqueous Consigliere John Clute
- While tumidity desires to transcend the limits of the sublime, the defect which is termed puerility is the direct antithesis of elevation, for it is utterly low and mean and in real truth the most ignoble vice of style. Archive 2010-03-01
- Such a tumidity is the key complaint we usually have when, as described above, the trite is presented with the pomp of the sublime. On the Sublime
- There is, however, one in No. 11, which is blown up into such tumidity, as to be truly ludicrous. Life Of Johnson
- The diction has in places a huge and rugged grandeur, which degenerates here and there into tumidity.
