How To Use Turgid In A Sentence

There are some sharp lines and a couple of catchy songs but there's also a lot of turgid stuff. Times, Sunday Times
He pulls out the original drum track, throws in a turgid approximation of the live drums with a drum machine and a stiff boom-kick, adds some bloops, bleeps, and squiggles (because, hey, it's a remix), and cashes his paycheck.
Grecian; they had laughing eyes their figures were models for an artist with — “Turgide, brune, e ritondette mamme.” like the ‘bending statue’ that delights the world. The Life of Sir Richard Burton
Water at the roots will keep plant stems and leaves turgid and able to photosynthesize.
It would be all too easy to launch into an assault on Kelly and Co. for being bland, middle-of-the-road and turgid.

It was pretty turgid stuff from both teams. The Sun
Do not rush out to buy the DVD, it was turgid stuff. The Sun
Paper colored by turmeric introduced into the other tube had its color much deepened; the acid matter gave a very slight degree of turgidness to solution of nitrate of soda. A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume IV: Modern Development of the Chemical and Biological Sciences
The book has its tedious and turgid passages, but the work is held together by a genuine sense of protest, first of all, against the brutality and irrationality of the penal system.
It's painful to imagine the planning meeting that produced this turgid number. Times, Sunday Times
Mineralogy _-alogy_, not _-ology_ nature _nature_, or _choor_ oleomargarine _g_ is hard, as in _get_ orchid _orkid_ oust _owst_, not _oost_ peculiar _peculyar_ pecuniary _pekun'yari_ perspiration not _prespiratian_ prestige _pres'tij_ or _prestezh'_ pronunciation _pronunzeashun_ or _pronunsheashun_ saucy not _sassy_ schedule _skedyul_ semi not _semi_ theater _the'ater_ not _thea'ter_ turgid _turjid_ usage _uzage_ usurp _uzurp_ vermilion _vermilyun_ wife's not _wives_ Practical Grammar and Composition
Breakfast rooms across India display a vista of glazed eyes ploughing wearily through the turgid, circumlocutory language of the morning papers.
I observed that his prose was turgid and his character pompous, which is correct on both counts.
The lack of lignin in lateral walls shifts the function of ‘pipe walls’ to the turgid parenchyma paving the tracheid.
Australia won a turgid match and it is fitting that it was the raw-boned Owen Finnegan who scored the breakthrough try.
No art, nothing but some sadly punning slogans and the most uninspired, turgid and solipsistically verbose writing. Times, Sunday Times
-- 'For my own part,' he at once replied, 'I look upon Aeschylus as the first of poets, for his verses roll superbly; 'tis nothing but incoherence, bombast and turgidness.' The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1
It was pretty turgid stuff from both teams. The Sun
Mieville gropes for a prose style in the opening hundred pages or so, meaning that the opening part of the book is delivered in short, staccato bursts, one moment enjoyable, the next annoyingly obtuse to the point of turgidness. Kraken by China Mieville
The first half was a turgid, disjointed affair. Times, Sunday Times
Last month more than 35,000 salmon died in the Klamath River, smothered by low flows and turgid waters.
She talked of her French ancestors who swam 30 miles down the turgid Mississippi river from Canada to St. Paul, Minnesota.
Pale sunlight filters through the trees that overhang the water's edge, throwing veiled patches of gold onto the turgid brown river where cattle drink under the watchful eye of a young herdsman.
This technique distances the reader from the action, rendering some potentially impactful scenes dull and turgid.
I won't drag you through a turgid technical history of the sneaker including waffles, bubbles, air cushioning, antipronation, supination, orthotics and barefoot technology. The Great Sneaker Revival
It was also a relief from the turgidness of Welsh Politics. Who cares?
Everything was done to make us throw away sobriety of thought and calmness of judgment and to inflate all expressions with sensational epithets and turgid phrases.
It's my opinion that both these methods are turgid in the extreme and what is more, they telegraph Germany's intentions early on.
Not only that, the fact the three are sisters home together — in Cape Breton, no less — for the first time in years because their mother is dying made me fear I faced a turgid evening of stereotypical CanLit dysfunctional-family angst. My review of Globe Theatre’s production of Marion Bridge…
A year later he moved again, to become deputy editor of the party's turgid theoretical review, Tarsadalmi Szemle.
The gorgeousness is in the imagery not in the language; the words are weak while the sense, as in the classical Scandinavian books, is strong; and here the Arabic differs diametrically from the florid exuberance and turgid amplifications of the Persian story-teller, which sound so hollow and unreal by the side of a chaster model. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
A year later he moved again, to become deputy editor of the party's turgid theoretical review, Tarsadalmi Szemle.
The writing style I found to be turgid, which from a professor of communications is a rather frightening concept.
He used to make extremely dull, turgid and frankly boring speeches.
It was awful, turgid stuff. The Sun
The intake of air can be minimised by cutting when the transpiration of the plant is low and both stem and bloom are turgid, that is the cells are full of water and stretched to their fullest limit so that stem and bloom are stiff and solid, and by plunging the cut stems straight away into water, preferably warm water as this tends to be taken up more quickly and thus breaks any air lock. Article Source
The movie is a turgid, pretentious piece of work that may have played well on the page, but is too heavy and slow-moving to work on the big screen.
As an orator or ‘communicator’ he was terrible, with one turgid cliché following another, delivered in a folksy drone punctuated by wags of the head.
There are some sharp lines and a couple of catchy songs but there's also a lot of turgid stuff. Times, Sunday Times
It was awful, turgid stuff. The Sun
Back when I was an editor at HBR, I spent a lot of time plowing through turgid academic papers trying to turn up nuggets of practical wisdom.
The second half was turgid and tight with no quarter given and hardly any goalmouth incidents. The Sun
The T. turgidum nucleus is incompatible with the T. longissimum cytoplasm, producing nonviable progeny.
Tree species include Acacia raddiana, Balanites aegyptiaca, Maerua crassifolia and Capparis decidua; herbaceous species are Panicum turgidum, Cassia italica, Pergularia tomentosa and Heliotropium bacciferum. Banc d'Arguin National Park, Mauritania
Sorry to plunge you straight into the turgid stuff. Times, Sunday Times
A turgid style of rugby will beat lesser teams, but it won't beat the best four or five. Times, Sunday Times
A turgid style of rugby will beat lesser teams, but it won't beat the best four or five. Times, Sunday Times
Faced with this tediously turgid presentation, my eyes glossed over, and only masochistic perseverance got me through.
The majority of them are written in a boring, turgid style.
Our society has become less cruelly conservative, our politics less atavistically nationalistic, and our culture less turgidly insular.
But there was little for the large contingent of visiting fans to shout about in a turgid first 40 minutes. The Sun
I tuned in mostly out of a sense of duty, expecting to have to sit through a turgid display of tired political rhetoric and waffle.
The second half was turgid and tight with no quarter given and hardly any goalmouth incidents. The Sun
Generally, in a healthy plant the cells alternate between being flaccid and fully turgid.
February 24th, 2010 more images more imagesMATTHEW GOODE has slammed his new movie LEAP YEAR as "turgid" - insisting the AMY ADAMS movie will be labelled "the worst film of 2010. Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7
As he began rotating again, his turgidness now evident, even through her gown. Almost a Whisper
The pace was surprisingly quick considering some of the turgid stuff played in Ebdon's previous match, although the 30-year-old had promised to play a more open game against the fourth seed.
Turgid weight was estimated from the linear relationship between fresh weight and x in the positive turgor range, by extrapolating to x = 0.
Mineralogy _-alogy_, not _-ology_ nature _nature_, or _choor_ oleomargarine _g_ is hard, as in _get_ orchid _orkid_ oust _owst_, not _oost_ peculiar _peculyar_ pecuniary _pekun'yari_ perspiration not _prespiratian_ prestige _pres'tij_ or _prestezh'_ pronunciation _pronunzeashun_ or _pronunsheashun_ saucy not _sassy_ schedule _skedyul_ semi not _semi_ theater _the'ater_ not _thea'ter_ turgid _turjid_ usage _uzage_ usurp _uzurp_ vermilion _vermilyun_ wife's not _wives_ Practical Grammar and Composition
Breakfast rooms across India display a vista of glazed eyes ploughing wearily through the turgid, circumlocutory language of the morning papers.
I'm not referring here to fidgeting uncomfortably while an unseasoned actor lurches turgidly through thousands of rhyming couplets.
As it turned out we had been booked as comic relief to try and lighten up the turgidly dull atmosphere in studio 1.
No 'jargon ridden pleonasm' here, as Martin's friend Evan might observe, and no turgid torpidity either. WalesOnline - Home
He used to make extremely dull, turgid and frankly boring speeches.
The first half was a turgid, disjointed affair. Times, Sunday Times
It was all pretty turgid stuff but, then again, it has been for some time. The Sun
She looked at me as if I were a pupil who had fabricated an excuse to avoid a turgid lesson. GOODBYE CURATE
Pale sunlight filters through the trees that overhang the water's edge, throwing veiled patches of gold onto the turgid brown river where cattle drink under the watchful eye of a young herdsman.
The style was turgid, the characters were poorly outlined and too ‘original’.
After suggesting an analogy between the disease and the redness and turgidity of the neck produced by passion or in singing, he adds that some cases are due to an accumulation of spongy tissue between the veins and arteries, or to the use of flatulent food, and he even tells us that some old women know how to produce and remove goitrous swellings by means of certain suitable herbs known to them. Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century
Some entries are rather turgid, and others wonderfully pretentious.
I am reminded of the exchange in "Dr. Strangelove," where General "Buck" Turgidson/George C. Scott briefs President Merkin Muffley/Peter Sellers.
A turgid style of rugby will beat lesser teams, but it won't beat the best four or five. Times, Sunday Times
The second half was turgid and tight with no quarter given and hardly any goalmouth incidents. The Sun
Real play turgid stuff under Benitez. The Sun
The fruits of his labours are collected in this book, which is a peerless work of journalism, but a turgid piece of writing. Times, Sunday Times
Among them, this turgid prize-seizer from a writer identified as B. Waldorf: Boing Boing: July 31, 2005 - August 6, 2005 Archives
It's a long turgid document of breathtaking mendacity.
There is then in the structure of his words something tragic and something comic, something blustering and something low, an obscurity, a vulgarness, a turgidness, and a strutting, with a nauseous prattling and fooling. Essays and Miscellanies
Sorry to plunge you straight into the turgid stuff. Times, Sunday Times
We were reacting against bands we considered to be turgid and boring.
Isn't there another grouchy, unproductive and anonymous, online malcontent - one who shares your discomfort for "turgid" things - for for you to play with, say losergrrl, for instance? "This man is a clear-eyed pragmatist who will get the job done" — says Biden of Obama.
An important pointer can be found deep in the turgid text of the main resolution passed by the 18th congress. Times, Sunday Times
This can be dry, turgid stuff. Times, Sunday Times
The first half was a turgid, disjointed affair. Times, Sunday Times
The crowd of nearly 13,000 were left to ponder on a turgid first half, but any thoughts that they were being short-changed were quickly dispelled when the teams reappeared.
The Official is a turgid, overlong, and repetitive mix, with precious few hooks to make the ferocious, concussive breakbeats go down more easily.
The river is a brown, turgid worm as broad as a peaty salmon-spawn stream.
The fruits of his labours are collected in this book, which is a peerless work of journalism, but a turgid piece of writing. Times, Sunday Times
The style is rather turgid, and the author is so wrapped up in ‘discourse theory’ that he loses sight of the issues themselves.
Both gained the measure of a reluctant, turgid pitch that offered the seam bowlers less movement than home pessimists feared. Times, Sunday Times
so i bet Johnny was pretty smug there in his pseudo-retirement. i bet he thought he was in the clear. i'm sure he never figured he'd surf the web and catch his name in a paragraph that prominently featured the words "puckered," "throbbing," "turgid," and "Orlando Bloom." silly Johnny. fics are for chicks, and you made a pirate movie reminding us of the joys of boys in eyeliner. And now another installment toward my unending quest to prove an embarrassment to SAU
Real play turgid stuff under Benitez. The Sun
No art, nothing but some sadly punning slogans and the most uninspired, turgid and solipsistically verbose writing. Times, Sunday Times
Sir Samuel has a flowing style of writing that never gets bogged down or turgid.
Creatures extrude or vent eggs; larvae fatten, split their shells, and eat them; spores dissolve or explode; root hairs multiply, corn puffs on the stalk, grass yields seed, shoots erupt from the earth turgid and sheathed; wet muskrats, rabbits, and squirrels slide into the sunlight, mewling and blind; and everywhere watery cells divide and swell, swell and divide. Nature & Environment
A turgid style of rugby will beat lesser teams, but it won't beat the best four or five. Times, Sunday Times
MATTHEW GOODE has slammed his new movie LEAP YEAR as "turgid" - insisting the AMY ADAMS movie will be labelled "the worst film of 2010. ContactMusic Ltd | Latest News
In Pollack's case, I consider Out of Africa to be Oscar bait, critics bait, the kind of turgid lugubrious epic that comes along every so often and which just isn't really very good. Sydney Pollack
a turgid incoherent presentation
For some, thoughts of baseball acromegalic Randy Johnson will quickly shrivel even the most turgid erection. Saving Face
Mieville gropes for a prose style in the opening hundred pages or so, meaning that the opening part of the book is delivered in short, staccato bursts, one moment enjoyable, the next annoyingly obtuse to the point of turgidness. Kraken by China Mieville
The exordium is ridiculously turgid: If all the members of my body were changed into tongues, and if all my limbs resounded with The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
They eschew narrative, write in turgid, jargon-ridden prose and concentrate on micro-topics instead of the big picture.
Much of what passes for architectural writing, particularly in academia, is turgid and stilted.
Everything points to a turgid affair. The Sun
This is partly because we still think of Tony Blair as the prime minister (and he is often on American television rather pretending he is still prime minister), and yet, confusingly, he isn't running, and partly because his stand-in, Gordon Brown, who is actually the prime minister, is a figure of almost incomprehensible dourness and turgidness. Michael Wolff: We Don't Care About the British Election--but Some Pointers Anyway
The river rolled darkly brown and turgid.
Everything was done to make us throw away sobriety of thought and calmness of judgment and to inflate all expressions with sensational epithets and turgid phrases.
For me, the turgid pace and uneven writing muted any appreciation I might have of what it offers.
The prophetic message consisted of three different portions: -- First, Sennacherib is apostrophized (2Ki 19: 21-28) in a highly poetical strain, admirably descriptive of the turgid vanity, haughty pretensions, and presumptuous impiety of the Assyrian despot. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
It's painful to imagine the planning meeting that produced this turgid number. Times, Sunday Times
It got trashed, but there are great sequences in there, but the overall effect is kind of turgid in a certain way. Terry Gilliam on Watchmen « Gerry Canavan
But I have come to the conclusion that there is more than one spewer of insulting, yes "turgid" prose, alike as they may be. "This man is a clear-eyed pragmatist who will get the job done" — says Biden of Obama.
Everything points to a turgid affair. The Sun
It was turgid stuff, but then again Atlético were little better. Times, Sunday Times
Large, hard-boned dogs crack their skulls on the smoky rubbish wasteland on the edge of town, hanks of gory sheepskin lie in the turgid filth and multi-species dung.
A substantial and somewhat turgid passage that will have been severely lawyered before it was allowed out, but even so, you begin to get a message, of sorts.
Sir William Beveridge, a member of Churchill's wartime government he actually worked for Labour Minister Ernest Bevin, who wanted to get rid of him because he thought he was conceited, published a long, turgid report with revolutionary implications: "Social Insurance and Allied Services. Robert Teitelman: Brazil, America and the Realities of Private Equity
Do not rush out to buy the DVD, it was turgid stuff. The Sun
This can be dry, turgid stuff. Times, Sunday Times
I do understand the instinct of journalists to translate turgid legal verbiage into clear language.
Sir Samuel has a flowing style of writing that never gets bogged down or turgid.
Back when I was an editor at HBR, I spent a lot of time plowing through turgid academic papers trying to turn up nuggets of practical wisdom.
The surprise is that it took me until this morning to realise that my overall lethargy and turgid headache were probably more to do with caffeine withdrawal than the regiments of lymphocytes still engaged on mopping up operations inside.
Elizabethan satirists, -- the vitriolic bitterness of Nash, the sententious profundity of Donne, the happy-go-lucky "slogging" of genial Dekker, the sledge-hammer blows of Jonson, the turgid malevolence of Chapman, and the stiletto-like thrusts of George English Satires
A season can exhaust you like a turgid novel: players dazzle and slump; managers get bronzed or sacked; spring brilliance shrivels in the summer heat. What Kind of Baseball Fan Are You?
The tasks were of the turgid kind often found in such language books i.e. writing a CV, writing a covering letter for a job application, a listening activity gap-fill from a job interview, and a role play interview. SOAS Drama course – participants’ page « Ken Wilson's Blog
The normally crystal clear water was clouded and turgid.
After marriage the breasts diminished, but she was unable to suckle either of her three children, the breasts becoming turgid but never lactescent. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
All his compositions were a mixture of truth and turgidness, of lucid strength and faltering stupidity. Jean-Christophe, Volume I
They might think it sounds horribly self-important, turgid, avant-garde and inaccessible.
Water at the roots will keep plant stems and leaves turgid and able to photosynthesize.
Those incidents provided welcome relief from a turgid second period that saw Dunfermline monopolise possession, but rarely convince anyone they knew what to do with it.
It was turgid stuff, but then again Atlético were little better. Times, Sunday Times
The most boring, turgid, insipid or blatantly tragic films become a source of immense fun and wonder in his hands.
He used to make extremely dull, turgid and frankly boring speeches.
I've never met anyone who's managed to plough through a whole bookful of Rushdie's turgid prose. Salman Rushdie Does Not Deserve a Knighthood But He Must Keep It
Its style is turgid and convoluted.
As Gunn says in 'Players': Listen, I spent most of this year trapped in what I can only describe as a turgid supernatural soap-opera. An Assistant Professor Of Cultural Studies With An MFA
It's painful to imagine the planning meeting that produced this turgid number. Times, Sunday Times
Writing requires discipline, and it can be taught, but you don't find it in turgid poems about Bad Daddies and The Struggle to Be Me and all the other flat, morbid, narcissistic writing that is encouraged by bad teaching. Letters
Matters aren't helped either by her desperately turgid prose style, which is likely to turn off all but the most conscientious of readers.
It was all pretty turgid stuff but, then again, it has been for some time. The Sun
The book is plagued by turgid prose, facile observations, and far-fetched inferences from limited evidence.
That their plunge might stimulate Methuen to burn his boots and brave the turgid waters of the Modder, was the fervent wish of Kimberley at the end of fourteen weeks of irksome, emaciating duress. The Siege of Kimberley
Rather than hiding their personalization capability under layers of turgid policy - speak , they should flaunt it.
An American scientist claims that he has invented a computer program that will be able to spot whether a Hollywood movie will be a soaraway success or a giant turgid flop before the movie has even been made.
Pale sunlight filters through the trees that overhang the water's edge, throwing veiled patches of gold onto the turgid brown river where cattle drink under the watchful eye of a young herdsman.
Ita fastu ante unum mensem turgida civitas, et cacuminibos coelum pulsare visa, ad inferos usque paucis diebus dejecta. Anatomy of Melancholy

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