| 单词 | turgid |
| 例句 | He continued to study Rick intently, his face turgid; Rick could not fathom what Garland was thinking. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z The wolves had gone into the turgid brown water alone. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The water itself was turgid, gray- green even on sunny days, oil slicked, and reeking of diesel fuel and seaweed. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Some states use a turgid style which can get you lost with the greatest ease. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z She slid down the muddy bank, clutching at loose roots that ripped away in her hands, and landed in the turgid water, tumbling over and over in the dark and the cold. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z It was an alien geography that thrust outreaching along the water’s edge; a land of a thousand creeks, brown and turgid, but rich in the smell of the sea. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Not that many things are turgid, when you think about it.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Rain showered down and made miniature puddles on the turgid river water. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z They were like turgid animals who did things mechanically. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Life had become a turgid and suspended film. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Was this the only true history of the times, a mood blared by trumpets, trombones, saxophones and drums, a song with turgid, inadequate words? Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Ugwu continued to slice, in a turgid silence, until Master came home, tennis whites plastered to his back with sweat. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z I looked at her, in house shoes, her breasts turgid, her belly heavy and high. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z And the prose in the memoranda of other officers was always turgid, stilted, or ambiguous. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Following the turgid sloganeering of Profit in Peace, there's a momentarily affecting flash of personal nostalgia from frontman Simon Fowler after he unearths an obscure early B-side. Ocean Colour Scene – review 2013-02-27T16:34:00Z What happens next is by turns tense and turgid, unsurprising and appalling. ‘Dark Waters’ Review: The Killing Fields of West Virginia 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z But on Tuesday — with Nézet-Séguin making his first appearance at the opera house this season, nearly two months in — the Met’s orchestra brought muscular energy to what could easily turn turgid and syrupy. Review: In ‘The Hours,’ Prima Donnas and Emotions Soar 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z The story of how, over 30 years after its debut, a relatively innocent arcade game starring a giant ape and other oversize beasts underwent a corporate transmogrification and became a turgid, logy sci-fi/action blockbuster. Review: ‘Rampage’ Turns to Rubble, Even Before the Mutant Animals Show Up 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z The album is a dark pinnacle in the career of an unjustly forgotten American band — 47 minutes of music whose unrelenting minimalism and turgid drive becomes more fascinating with each listen. Perspective | The best old albums that we discovered in 2017 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z Those famous first four notes can sound turgid, wrong. The Ultimate Beethoven Symphony Collection 2020-03-27T04:00:00Z What’s most remarkable is that it took two directors to yield a work this turgid and inept. Review: ‘Future World,’ With James Franco, Is Present-Tense Wretchedness 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z On a screen, even great shows can look hammy, turgid and dead. The surprise success of NT Live 2013-06-09T19:30:01Z While Blanchard’s score moved comfortably between bars, college parties and fraught, tender nocturnes, “Fire” was fairly turgid as drama, its individual sequences clear but the broader conflicts driving its characters obscure. At the Met This Season, Opera Was Icing on the Cake 2022-06-12T04:00:00Z We hug the northern coastline: the turgid waters of Bass Strait to our right, small, furry mountains on our left. In excellent spirits: Whiskey tours in Tasmania Fear seemed to be the main factor in the planning and staging of the evening’s safe and turgid ceremonies. The Oscars 2015: For the Birds 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z It's important the audience realises at once it's not going to see something turgid or heavy. Landmark Aids play gets London revival 2013-08-09T07:19:16Z With all this said, below are some of the best IPAs you can try, ranging from the more traditional west coast IPA to today's turgid hazy options. Our 6 favorite IPAs for hoppy, hazy sips 2021-11-29T05:00:00Z Many remained unfinished, he said, after he decided that they were “dreadful, turgid illustrations of some wonderful theme.” David Storey, British Novelist and Playwright, Dies at 83 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z Yet Jacobs kept them from turning turgid — his tempos flowing while conveying the weight and depth of the music. Review: For Franck’s 200th, an Organist Pays Grand Tribute 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z “In places it is turgid. But it contains scenes more powerful than those by any other contemporary novelist.” Looking Back at Günter Grass's Life and Work 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z The Second Concerto’s opening movement was unsettled on Saturday, and the balances seemed off: The strings, less rich than turgid, swamped the winds and often Wang. Review: Yuja Wang Sweeps Through a Rachmaninoff Marathon 2023-01-29T05:00:00Z Ball: You're so right: the format of the Oscars ceremony is so turgid, so lavish, so ridiculously discursive, that it can basically make anyone look nervous and flat. Oscar's Rumblr: We React to the Academy Awards 2010-03-08T20:23:00Z The eventual and ultimate success of "Mare of Easttown" unifies around Winslet, who magnetized this series from the start, carrying the mystery through its turgid spots and electrifying its finest ones. "Mare of Easttown" is twisty until the very end, but the best part is its grace 2021-05-31T04:00:00Z Of the tracks premiered here, Being Followed is a dreary plod, while Leave a Light On sounds like a turgid take on old favourite Save a Prayer. Duran Duran ? review 2011-03-08T18:29:38Z He oversaw subsequent editions through the 1990s and was credited with mitigating Mr. Kobbé’s turgid prose and eccentric arrangement of entries. George Lascelles, Lord Harewood, Dies at 88; Wrote Opera Reference 2011-07-26T22:29:27Z A song that is notable for being utterly dreadful, Turbulence is a turgid ode to, like, life and stuff. This week's new singles 2011-07-15T23:07:04Z To splash paint onto canvases, or carve things out of wood, or smear chocolate pudding across your body, each act turgid with meaning, with messages! My new TV addiction: Bravo's "Work of Art" 2010-06-05T22:01:00Z Having grown up on a university, I totally got that turgid and twisted relationship. ‘Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf’ Returns for an Anniversary 2012-09-29T23:00:21Z Photograph: Corbis/© The Gallery Collection/Corbis Art books are often subject to a law of inverse proportions, which states that the bigger and glossier the plates the more turgid and impenetrable the text. Christmas gifts 2012: the best art books 2012-11-30T08:00:03Z Mr. Wittrock watched a cardinal hop around in the undergrowth and looked for turtles in the lake, which was turgid and neon green. Finn Wittrock of ‘Judy’ Visits His Old Juilliard Haunts 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z You are battered with strident images and turgid texts, and your vital forces drain into countless flickering screens. Brilliant biennale 2010-09-04T23:06:00Z Professor Dutton ended the contest after the annual turgid torrent threatened to overwhelm all concerned. Denis Dutton, Philosopher, Dies at 66 2011-01-01T03:57:45Z “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter” was a sloppy, turgid mess, gruesome and unappealing as fresh roadkill. Review: ‘The Last American Vampire,’ by Seth Grahame-Smith 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z Histories of money need lots of facts and dates; as a result many are turgid. The Fiction That Makes the World Go Round 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z It is a shame, then, that the author lapses all too frequently into turgid technocratic monotone. Infamy, infamy 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z The same narrow vision that keeps the dance scenes turgid also keeps Cher from being more than a mere signifier of herself; Parker’s direction doesn’t respond to Cher, it confines her. Review: “Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again” Saves the Best for Last 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z The third movement of the same sonata, marked "allegretto", was heavily turgid until a sudden angry scramble in the closing bars. Ll?r Williams ? review 2011-08-23T10:26:37Z The six artists here exploit the broad cultural fluency in the medium to variously frame American masculinity as fraught, turgid and heavily constructed. What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries in April 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z The utopian ideas don’t run deep, and the dialogue expounding on them can be stiff at best, turgid at worst. Catching Up With ‘Star Trek,’ the Quiet Franchise 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z If the outcome is no secret, the internecine maneuvers leading to it are tense enough to override the play's more turgid passages. At ACT, a tale of 2 queens, 1 throne 2011-09-16T19:59:04Z Anyway, as has repeatedly been the case throughout this fascinating series, what threatens to be a fairly turgid exercise in cadaver-poking quickly becomes utterly absorbing. Screen burn 2010-06-11T23:05:00Z His waspish wit can make him entertaining company at a party, but there is little evidence of that in his largely turgid prose. The Third Man by Peter Mandelson 2010-07-17T23:05:00Z Out with boring PowerPoints and turgid reports; in with witty videos that explain complex issues in digestible terms. Seattle native's 'Story of Stuff' videos go viral 2010-07-28T22:50:00Z A month before the release of “Araminta” — a stern, turgid and mysteriously funky collection — the trio Harriet Tubman played to a packed house at this low-key performance space in Chelsea. The Best Live Jazz Performances of 2017 2017-12-13T05:00:00Z Fielding familiar classroom stereotypes — the bully, the science geek, the strutting alien female in the skintight cat suit — this turgid schedule filler is only marginally more fun than a week’s worth of detention. | 'I Am Number Four': Tales of Teenage Aliens 2011-02-18T00:01:18Z Unfortunately, it's also the high point of Smith's novel, which is as turgid and undramatic a thriller as I've read. 'The Farm' cultivates little suspense for a thriller 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z Denzel Washington’s film “Fences,” an adaptation of the play by August Wilson, could well have yielded an excellent movie rather than a turgid one, and consistently inspired performances rather than merely virtuosic ones. What “Fences” Misses About Adapting Plays for the Screen 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z Burger is no tower of lucidity, his opinions notorious for being turgid, making it arduous for the public to parse their meaning. How an impeachment unfolds: Inside the 1974 Nixon hearings, day by day 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z The first hour of The Undefeated, scrupulously attentive to Palin's rise through state politics, is pretty rough going, a turgid primer in Alaska's pipeline management and oil, gas and, yes, milk subsidies. The Undefeated: Her Holiness Sarah Palin 2011-07-15T08:55:00Z Ironically, the people who come out of this worst are the Americans, recycling their trash in a manner so turgid and lumpen that one ends up siding with the opposition – whomever they may be. Mark Kermode's DVD round-up 2013-07-13T23:05:18Z Taking the MIC … Made in Chelsea has the best soundtrack on TV Made in Chelsea is a turgid reality phenomenon riddled with contradictions – which is obviously what makes it so compelling. Why Made in Chelsea has the best soundtrack on TV 2012-12-17T15:16:26Z "The actors, flailing under Vicky Featherstone's wooden direction, do much striding around and drinking of wine. I certainly felt like doing the latter by the time this turgid evening ended." Morgan play attracts tepid reviews 2014-02-06T12:02:44Z In 1991 he brought his flair, energy and charisma to the sometimes turgid world of right-on politics by co-founding a series of funky Latin-American theme nights in his home town, Reading. Tim Carroll obituary 2010-11-22T18:16:00Z Directed by Tony Richardson, the turgid biopic of the Australian bushranger and folk hero tried to do for its titular outlaw what Bonnie & Clyde had done for theirs three years prior, only to fail spectacularly. Rolling back: why we should welcome Mick Jagger's big screen return 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z So why is the Jersey Boys film a turgid botch? Jersey Boys Movie Review: Music is Sharp, Drama is Flat 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z It was a bland and pointless crime, a turgid investigation, an escape attempt so limp that its main component was a cagoule, and a resolution that stirred feelings no more intense than mild disapproval. TV review: Penn and Teller: Fool Us; Law and Order: UK; and Mildred Pierce 2011-07-10T21:05:01Z Disney’s problem now is that it fears repeating the failures of the prequel trilogy, which shifted the heart of Star Wars from knockabout space adventure to turgid bureaucratic battles in the Galactic senate. Attack of the clones: can Rogue One save us from a future of identikit cinematic universes? 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z He published turgid letters in theTimes about a breathtakingly tedious panoply of subjects—Hawaiian statehood, local government reform, Prohibition, world peace, and more. Jack Kerouac, misogynist creep: Inside his ugly infatuation with Marilyn Monroe 2015-10-11T04:00:00Z The concerto’s turgid post-Straussian orchestration often buries the soloist, but Alsop is a strong accompanist and did a good job here. BSO at Strathmore: A well-balanced ensemble that hits right at the surface The country is a kind of no-place: you are meant to listen closely to the turgid political circumstances of past battles with more looming for the kingdom and surrounding lands. Review | Royal Shakespeare Company’s ‘Hamlet’ doesn’t sizzle, but its star does 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z As well meaning as this movie is, it is also a turgid, muddled one. Review: Aid Workers in Love and War in Sean Penn’s ‘The Last Face’ 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z While I delight as much as Dr. Kramer does in scrutinizing studies for flaws in design and execution — he talks effect sizes, dropout biases, additivity — his writing is maddeningly turgid in places. Review: In ‘Ordinarily Well,’ Peter D. Kramer Goes to the Antidepressant Ramparts 2016-06-06T04:00:00Z In fact, when he tried to be more serious, as with 1999's turgid `End of Days,' it was risible: nothing more hilarious than seeing Arnie `act!' Schwarzenegger must revamp image once more 2011-05-21T20:31:06Z “Breaking the Waves,” Ms. Mazzoli’s first full-length opera, is a substantial step forward from her turgid 2012 chamber work, “Songs From the Uproar.” Review: ‘Breaking the Waves’ Lends Musical Heft to a von Trier Tale 2016-09-25T04:00:00Z Rather, I was shocked—that the director of “American Graffiti” could have constrained himself to create such a turgid, stilted, flat, and textureless movie. What the Seven “Star Wars” Films Reveal About George Lucas 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z The first scene is particularly turgid as characters offer carefully reasoned speeches almost entirely devoid of action. Theater Review: ‘Our God’s Brother,’ by the Future Pope John Paul II 2014-04-18T22:24:02Z Aside from the fact that drug addiction is rarely compatible with the stability to keep producing, it just doesn't work that well: the writing becomes turgid, indulgent, self-engrossed. Nick Laird on the fitful nature of inspiration 2010-04-09T23:06:00Z This is a turgid replay of the B.O.B./Hayley Williams hit of last year, but with double the whining and zero of the actual emotion of Airplanes. This week's new singles 2011-02-12T00:05:35Z And their bile is not made more credible by the substantial misogyny with which they lard their turgid script. Review: ‘An L.A. Minute’ Isn’t Worth the Time 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z Mr. Mailer let it be known that he considered Mr. Tallmer’s reviews long and turgid, which was pretty much how Mr. Tallmer judged the column Mr. Mailer wrote. Jerry Tallmer, Critic Who Created the Obies, Dies at 93 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z “Everyone always talks about that great Cheshire cat smile,” says Scott, though Joselovitz suspects that was partly an act from the shy Parker, projecting serenity atop the notoriously turgid operation that was Whiteman’s Source. ‘You want to do it? Do it’: Keith Parker’s freewheeling legacy at Source Theatre 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z What can I tell you of pain, you who have worked your way through pages of this meaningless, turgid drivel? Digested classic: The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran 2010-04-30T09:38:00Z Yet another adaptation of a cult Scandinavian drama, the turgid FX show ‘The Bridge,’ was renewed for a second season. Alessandra Stanley Sizes Up 2013 TV Fare 2013-12-13T19:27:53Z I feared, in the first minutes, a tone of turgid solemnity. A Dance Steals the Show at an Opera Festival 2020-01-19T05:00:00Z While commending the beauty and majesty of Wagner’s compositions, Mr. Gutman also took pains to analyze his nonmusical activities — notably his profuse, turgid and virulently anti-Semitic writings, which would become a lodestar of Nazi ideology. Robert W. Gutman, Biographer of Wagner and Mozart, Dies at 90 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z The first half of "Measures" has considerable energy thanks to the editing skills of veteran Anne V. Coates, but then the picture is dragged down by too many turgid confrontations and predictable epiphanies. 2010-01-22T03:30:00Z “Cycles,” which felt turgid when I heard it in a voice-and-piano version three years ago, bloomed in Opera Philadelphia’s presentation of the original instrumentation, which adds a couple of energizing strings and a wailing clarinet. Tyshawn Sorey: The Busiest Composer of the Bleakest Year 2021-01-01T05:00:00Z Even when, on single AA-side Crying Clown, Bell's voice is by turns a bellow and a pained howl and the riff is as tar-like and turgid as Black Sabbath, it's still psych. New band of the day (The Wytches No 1,504) 2013-05-01T15:24:32Z Having sat through the whole turgid evening, I only regret they didn't integrate it into the performance. Where egos dare: Patrick Stewart v James Corden and other on-stage spats 2010-06-11T10:36:00Z This show has devolved into a turgid, implausible, humorless soap opera. ‘The Affair,’ Season 3, Episode 5: Back to Block Island 2016-12-18T05:00:00Z It was a turgid start from Mitchell Marsh and David Warner, with both struggling for any fluency. South Africa trounce woeful Australia at World Cup 2023-10-12T04:00:00Z The cause - whether high government deficits, China's suddenly turgid economy, or political dysfunction in the U.S. Global economy's glide to 'soft landing' gets bumpy as bond yields jump 2023-10-06T04:00:00Z Malan's turgid knock, which ended when the left-hander mistimed a Tim Southee slower ball to deep cover, will only give those who question his place in the World Cup squad further ammunition. England thumped by New Zealand in third T20 2023-09-03T04:00:00Z The turgid nature of past propaganda is also getting a makeover: With the YouTube and Tik Tok generation suffering from shortening attention spans, North Korean editors are slashing their reports into faster-paced, bite-sized chunks. An unsmiling Kim: North Korea’s media step up their game 2023-08-30T04:00:00Z After that, there were some turgid periods when Australia refused to engage in England's plan and, when they did, wickets fell. England battling to avoid defeat by Australia 2023-07-01T04:00:00Z Siouxsie’s return was a qualified triumph: There was a touch too much turgid dirge in the set list, and as her energy level flagged, the voice grew unwieldy. Unexpectedly, two nights of classic goth and post-punk at Cruel World festival 2023-05-22T04:00:00Z ChatGPT uses its vast database to identify related text that it can string together in prose that is grammatically correct, turgid, exceptionally verbose, and devoid of any understanding of the question or its answer. ChatGPT and its ilk are definitely not sentient. Here's why 2023-04-30T04:00:00Z They play a style of football that is turgid and boring and I cannot think of a player he has improved. Was Conte 'selfish?' And does Levy have 'no choice'? 2023-03-20T04:00:00Z But it has a rubberized script, a turgid length and a key issue that affects many musical biopics: It’s not really sure what it thinks or wants to say about Presley. What our critics think of Oscar-nominated films 2023-03-11T05:00:00Z In “Quantumania,” sprightly pacing and lighthearted humor have succumbed to the turgid seriousness that plagues so much of the comic book canon. Review | ‘Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania’ goes big — and boring 2023-02-14T05:00:00Z For more than a century, presidents dispatched this obligation by sending written reports, turgid with the details of government operations. Opinion | Please, Biden, do us all a favor: Skip the State of the Union speech 2023-02-05T05:00:00Z It uses its vast database to identify related text that it can string together in prose that is grammatically correct, turgid, exceptionally verbose, and devoid of any understanding of the question or its answer. ChatGPT and its ilk are definitely not sentient. Here's why 2023-04-30T04:00:00Z As a leader, Mr. Jiang could be turgid and repressive when his political survival called for it, including against followers of the banned Falun Gong spiritual movement. For China’s Leader, Another Dilemma: How to Mourn Jiang Zemin 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z For all his turgid swagger, Laszlo reveals his tender side as Baby Colin’s faux daddy, a job made more challenging since Berry mainly worked opposite an assortment of child actors with dots on their faces. 'Shadows' cast faces foiled dreams, failed businesses and a coming out story 2022-11-21T05:00:00Z What began as turgid and claustrophobic, with jarring time jumps, found itself by midseason, and soared like a majestic, well, dragon, toward the finale with sharper plot turns, solid acting and increased stakes. ‘House of the Dragon’ ended on the brink of war. What could Season 2 bring? 2022-10-24T04:00:00Z It is "initially rocky" and "the first three instalments are particularly generic in their plotlines and turgid in pacing", she wrote. House of the Dragon: TV critics give verdicts on Game of Thrones prequel 2022-08-19T04:00:00Z He is a turgid garbage can of fear, always on the run — and most fearful of being caught and left alone out of the limelight. Donald Trump gets his revenge on Liz Cheney — but it may be short-lived 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z The combination of terror, sweat and expelled body fluids have combined to make his turgid, fetid nest smell like Satan's outhouse. No exit: After Mar-a-Lago raid, Trump is trapped — and his fear is palpable 2022-08-11T04:00:00Z Commerce Department is expected on Thursday to report that gross domestic product grew at a turgid pace in the second quarter. Fed to unveil another big rate hike as signs of economic slowdown grow 2022-07-27T04:00:00Z The dogs reach the banks of the Luangwa River — 300 feet wide there and turgid from weeks of steady rain. The Incredible Journey of Three African Wild Dogs 2022-06-20T04:00:00Z With a relatively weak field, including only four of the world's top 50 players, the golf was largely turgid and proved LIV is not immune from the curse of slow play. Schwartzel wins as Reed joins LIV Golf series 2022-06-11T04:00:00Z A rare highlight in Manchester United's turgid season came when they beat old foes Leeds at Elland Road in February. The best of the Premier League on social media 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z After the ceremony to mark 150 years of the FA Cup, the 141st final was more tense than turgid, just like in the League Cup final. Liverpool beats Chelsea to win FA Cup, keeps quad bid alive 2022-05-14T04:00:00Z Meanwhile the effort to stand up an unarmed public safety force, as an alternative to militarized cops, is proceeding at about the same turgid pace as fixing the West Seattle Bridge. Seattle continues to go backward on crime — as much as 30 years back 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z Yet, as in a turgid political thriller, do not count on a main character doing the principled thing when the dark side of politics beckons. Dinner-table chitchat with Ginni and Clarence Thomas 2022-04-01T04:00:00Z On a turgid pitch that makes run-scoring and wicket-taking tough, England's bowlers toiled until they took the 10th West Indies wicket in the evening session. England hold slim chance of Test win 2022-03-19T04:00:00Z There is a complicated answer to that which has everything to do with the turgid economics of the National Football League. Breaking up is hard to do 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z I found it to be a turgid, stultifying film about a selfish, irresponsible woman incapable of relating to anyone. Feedback: Why Damon Albarn is wrong about Taylor Swift 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z Nuno Espirito Santo paid the price for a turgid style of football, but there was no improvement as any promising moments in attack were undone by loose passes at key moments. Conte gets 1st Premier League win as Spurs manager 2021-11-21T05:00:00Z The Parc des Princes pitch, which had hosted a rugby match the previous day, provided the turgid setting for a match of few chances and even fewer moments of genuine quality. The electric trailblazer who met a tragic end in Madrid 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z It starts with zooplankton adrift in turgid currents and bacterial colonies in mudflats, rock crevices and canopies of kelp and meadows of eel grass undulating in the tidal surges. Marine researchers focus on the tiniest victims of Orange County oil spill 2021-10-09T04:00:00Z He labeled Zawahiri’s latest publication and turgid style as “comically boring.” As opportunity beckons in Afghanistan, al-Qaeda’s leader squabbles and writes ‘comically boring’ books 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z A school curriculum that includes Mr. Xi’s turgid political philosophy is now being imposed on an unusually young audience, starting from the third grade. Opinion | China’s nanny state grows ever more intrusive 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z Afternoon all, and welcome to the Premier League’s most reliably turgid match. Wolves v Manchester United: Premier League – live! 2021-08-29T04:00:00Z His unbridled style of online rhetoric has spread throughout the Chinese diplomatic corps, replacing the turgid mix of evasive diplomatese and abstruse Communist jargon that characterized the nation’s public statements for decades. The Man Behind China’s Aggressive New Voice 2021-07-07T04:00:00Z Recording sessions for the album were reportedly tense, and the results were turgid. The musical thrill, and moral unease, of rediscovering Michael's sibling group, the Jacksons 2021-05-12T04:00:00Z England's autumnal style of play had been labelled by many as turgid. English hope crushed underfoot by superb Scotland 2021-02-06T05:00:00Z Splendid, we get another 30 minutes of this fairly turgid dross after Andy Carroll squandered two good chances to win it for Newcastle. Arsenal v Newcastle goes to extra time: FA Cup third round – live! 2021-01-09T05:00:00Z Ryan Hedges broke the deadlock with a deflected shot 12 minutes into the second half after a turgid opening 45. Aberdeen beat Kilmarnock to go third 2020-12-20T05:00:00Z “At night, they’ll perk up and get more turgid. Then, suddenly, they stay upright all the time, a hint that they’re starting to root.” It’s (Nearly) Fall: Which Plants Can You Bring Inside? 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z He advises swimmers to stay in shallower water, avoid turgid waters, or swimming when it is dark or getting dark. Jaws : Classic Film, Crummy Science 2020-09-18T04:00:00Z Spurs were turgid in victory over Everton on Monday and they badly struggled to convince here, so often languid in possession. Bournemouth's Wilson and King see efforts ruled out to reprieve Tottenham 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z This isn’t the patchy, posturing Tempest, or the bloated, turgid Modern Times. 'A billboard with 50 years of layers': readers on Bob Dylan's Rough and Rowdy Ways 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z But after years of disappointing albums plagued with turgid stadium pop, it was just exciting to hear Eminem sound so fired up again – he makes for a very convincing Victor Meldrew. Eminem: his 30 greatest tracks, ranked! 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z It had, bar outstanding goals by Anthony Knockaert and Harry Arter, been a turgid afternoon’s football and Smith did not hide the fact he was happy to be spared further distraction. FA Cup third round: 10 talking points from the weekend’s action 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z He said: “Another turgid, torpid, toxic appalling EU referendum, which is the last thing we need.” Boris Johnson: goods from Northern Ireland to GB won't be checked 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z The mandate from these voters was not to turn Washington into an apocalyptic hellscape of turgid partisanship but rather just not be Hillary Clinton. The chaos caucus gets its way 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z "There are these very serious market messages and this trademark legal dispute - all very boring, turgid things if you look at them in isolation. But he's managed to flip it into something rather brilliant." Why is Banksy vetting his online customers? 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z The football is turgid, and goals are hard to find. Newcastle v Manchester United: Premier League – live! 2019-10-06T04:00:00Z Again and again, Macron’s efforts at projecting progressive modernity were belied by the turgid underlying realities. G7 summit: last rites of old order as Trump's theater looms next year 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z To be clear: retaining a formidable national defense is compulsory, but we shouldn’t be so rah-rah turgid about it. America's recurring doomsday is by design: Gun culture is now part of our DNA 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z It looks a smart move: Ceballos is a confident, spiky technician who will liven up a turgid midfield offering immeasurably if he settles quickly. Premier League 2019‑20 preview No 1: Arsenal 2019-07-29T04:00:00Z But in the turgid present-day US political climate, letting Iran off the hook is not on the cards. Trump’s foolish Iran policy only makes war more likely | Simon Tisdall 2019-05-09T04:00:00Z “Harry is a traditional guy at heart, we think he would like a relatively traditional but not absolutely turgid royal name,” Adams said. Harry, Meghan having girl, ‘avalanche’ of bets suggests: ‘The secret’s out’ 2019-04-14T04:00:00Z If there’s one thing we know about this government, it’s that it is turgid with cowards. Theresa's last supper was a festival of ordinary men. But which is Judas? | Hannah Jane Parkinson 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z The manner in which he went about trying to do so at Ipswich led to a major falling-out with the club’s fans who did not appreciate what they saw as turgid tactics. Euro 2020 qualifiers and international football: 10 things to look out for 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z It was kind of, I thought, turgid and melodramatic. Oscar-winning director Norman Jewison talks working with Steve McQueen and Jonathan Winters 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z The subsequent process to hire Gregg Berhalter took almost a year and felt turgid, poorly organized, and only ever focused on one candidate – it was hardly a comforting first step into a new era. Christian Pulisic's splashy transfer exposes gaping flaws in US Soccer 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z The purpose of this “borrowed boats” strategy may also be to lend credibility to the content, since it’s not clear how many readers actually bother to open these turgid, propaganda-heavy supplements. Inside China’s audacious plan for global media dominance 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z A turgid defence of so-called poetic craft, based on false notions of a formal tradition, silences the possibilities offered by new voices. Is contemporary poetry really in 'a rotten state' - or just a new one? 2018-11-22T05:00:00Z The officials in turn take what they learn to respond to some public concerns while creating “a new language of propaganda,” Repnikova says, more playful and effective than the turgid People’s Daily of old. Opinion | If the Chinese look to the West for a democratic model, what are we showing them? 2018-11-04T04:00:00Z Her writing, once technical and rather turgid, became more eccentric—ecstatic, even. Was the Philosopher Julia Kristeva a Cold War Collaborator? 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z The album ends with the slow-burning, turgid “Animal,” which may remind fans of “Wild” from his debut. Review: Troye Sivan totally flowers with the superb ‘Bloom’ 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z But it’s not clear what the poor state of Idaho did to deserve “Idaho,” a turgid, overwrought mess. Review: Gorillaz resurface quickly with very mixed new album 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z Denmark, perhaps buoyed by the news that Peru were leading against Australia, played with a little more intent after the restart but it was still turgid stuff from both teams. Denmark and France through to last 16 after first goalless draw of World Cup 2018-06-26T04:00:00Z But if, for a while, it became easy to forget how they scraped through qualifying, their turgid performance against Iceland served as a sharp reminder that this isn’t the greatest vintage of the Albiceleste. Argentina v Croatia: World Cup 2018 – live! 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z That turgid style appears to be incrementally changing in the wake of Diaz-Canel becoming president in April. Cuba slightly loosens controls on state media 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z But, until he died, he allowed us to inhabit his righteous and turgid, pure and debased universe, which he filled with the true and fake news of who we were, if only we would listen. The Aural Dissonance of Reza Abdoh 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z It’s an ambitious undertaking, one that requires a light authorial touch to avoid a result that is dense, and turgid, and boring. Review | Strange twists and turns in the process of heredity 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z Yet, in context, they accomplished the more earthbound dramaturgical task of nimbly developing character or advancing plot without turgid exposition. The great second act of Rodgers and Hammerstein 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z Indeed, Mr. Tillerson was often uncomfortable navigating the choppy and turgid waters of the Washington political scene. From Jokes to Near Tears, Tillerson’s Final Brush With Diplomacy 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z It was long branded untranslatable, a view reinforced by a turgid rendering published in 1931. The real resonances, and warnings, of Weimar Germany 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z Amid the prosaic setting of British politics, with its fusty civil servants and turgid party meetings, the secretary of state for foreign and commonwealth affairs stands out as the most glamorous of cabinet appointments. Six former foreign secretaries on Brexit, Britain… and Boris 2018-03-04T05:00:00Z But professors who attempt to dress up or show off their learning by employing dense, turgid language do their fields—and their students—a great disservice. If You Want Your Child to Succeed, Don’t Sell Liberal Arts Short 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z The result is turgid or obfuscatory writing that sounds defensive, with too many caveats and long lists — as if the authors are writing to fend off criticism that hasn’t been made yet. How to write a first-class paper 2018-02-27T05:00:00Z It concluded with a pledge by Mr. Tillerson to fix the department’s turgid email system and improve medical leaves and travel arrangements — bureaucratic problems that underwhelmed many. Trying to Defend President Trump’s Derision, Diplomatically 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z The football has been turgid at times, which hasn’t exactly endeared O’Neill to Irish supporters. Where it went wrong for the teams who missed out on the World Cup 2017-11-16T05:00:00Z They were the only opportunities of note in a turgid first half until Liverpool were presented with a needless penalty shortly before half-time. Daniel Sturridge sends Liverpool cruising to victory over Huddersfield 2017-10-28T04:00:00Z But much of the rest of the island lies in the chokehold of a turgid, frustrating and perilous slog toward recovery. Three weeks since Hurricane Maria, much of Puerto Rico still dark, thirsty and frustrated 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z The mind is turgid and bored, dissatified with static peace, and seeks action, stimulation. Opinion | The Anxiety of John Stuart Mill 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z One high point is the book’s opener: a turgid but fascinating prologue written by Dracula’s creator, Bram Stoker, for a theatrical performance of his masterpiece. Two new anthologies probe Dracula, rogues/villains 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z In the end, however, “The Villainess” is little more than an action showcase, with way more scenes of turgid espionage than thrilling set pieces. Review | ‘The Villainess’: Audacious, stylized violence, in service of a so-so espionage thriller 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z The leadership campaign struggled to attract public attention, possibly because there were 14 candidates, often turning the debates into turgid affairs. Canada’s Conservatives Choose Andrew Scheer as Their New Leader 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z This encounter could go the same way, as a turgid third session saw play ended early with a frame being carried over. World Championship 2017: Mark Selby leads John Higgins in Crucible final 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z He’s suggesting things that are genuinely innovative in the turgid world of UK politics: looking to young people; taxing old, wealthy people. Arron Banks: ‘Brexit was a war. We won. There’s no turning back now’ 2017-04-02T04:00:00Z An estimated 6 million Chinook salmon were immediately transported in tanker trucks to another state wildlife facility about 10 miles from the turgid river. Downstream from the stricken Oroville Dam, the Feather River Fish Hatchery manages to save millions of fish 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z For those prone to complain about turgid traffic in the mightily congested urban sprawl that extends from Washington, D.C., north past Boston, there is news that no resident will believe. The 100 worst traffic bottlenecks on U.S. highways 2017-01-24T05:00:00Z Whereas “The Wiz” was a boisterous and engaging live musical, “Emerald City” is a turgid attempt at fantasy burdened by the weight of its own pretensions. 'Emerald City' takes a dark but ponderous journey down the yellow brick road 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z Gayle pounced for his second and 19th of the season at the far post as Forest's defence looked uncertain in Mills' absence, the decisive act of a fairly turgid game. Newcastle United 3-1 Nottingham Forest 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z State television’s turgid programming ran grainy black-and-white footage of Mr. Castro giving speeches or mingling with crowds. Fidel Castro, Former Cuban Dictator, Laid to Rest 2016-12-04T05:00:00Z Tori Kelly whiffed too in “O Holy Night,” presented for some reason as a turgid alternative-rock tune. 'Christmas in Rockefeller Center': Holiday entertainment only a network exec could love 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z A turgid communiqué summarising the outcome of the four-day conclave contained few other revelations. Xi Jinping gets a new label, but no more power 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z The practice has devastated the environment, according to Earthworks and locals, turning thousands of hectares of verdant forest and mangroves into wasteland and rendering turgid the once-crystal waters of the highlands. The $100bn gold mine and the West Papuans who say they are counting the cost | Susan Schulman and Kate Hodal 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z Nevertheless, everywhere, I see the potential for unleashing a female solidarity that could cut through turgid certainties and redraw ideological fault lines. What happens when the alpha males run politics? Donald Trump | Zoe Williams 2016-10-09T04:00:00Z The bewilderment about what happens to our data is made worse by lengthy and turgid terms and conditions and privacy policies. Customers 'bewildered and fearful' about use of their data - BBC News 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z But the show was described as a "turgid, interminable half-hour" by the Daily Telegraph's TV critic Michael Hogan. ITV's Victoria reigns over BBC's Are You Being Served? and Porridge revivals - BBC News 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z Don’t be fooled by the title: At the end of another long summer of turgid superheroics, it’s splendid to be reminded what a grown-up movie looks like. Big emotions at the heart of Ira Sachs' 'Little Men' 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z These are pretty and colorful, but they are hung in the middle of a dark, turgid night sky: a sort of dream of happiness set against a world of doubt and sorrow. A Disturbing, Inspired “Winter’s Tale” 2016-08-15T04:00:00Z In part, that’s because of low oil prices as Iran reentered the global market as well as the skittishness many businesses and investors still have in working with Iran and its turgid banking system. One year later, White House claims success in Iran nuclear deal 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z Related: Poland hold nerve after Switzerland’s Granit Xhaka blazes penalty wide It was an turgid and torturous tie, heavy on physicality and sorely lacking in class, particularly in the last third. Gareth McAuley’s own goal takes Wales past Northern Ireland at Euro 2016 2016-06-25T04:00:00Z A few hundred Dutch fans did show up at Energa Stadium on Wednesday, tucked into one corner, where they and 40,000 more optimistic Polish fans watched a mostly turgid exhibition on a sloppy field. Dutch National Soccer Program Makes Long-Term Recovery Plan 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z It is incredibly easy to parody the “Ring” because it is pitched on the precipice between literary ambition and turgid pomposity. Two critics trade thoughts on Wagner’s ‘Ring’ in D.C. 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z At a punishing two and a half hours, it’s all very turgid and unsmilingly sober — the direct opposite of the sprightly, witty, visually vibrant “Avengers” movies — but there are bright spots. ‘Batman v Superman’ is so desperate to be taken seriously, it forgets to have fun 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z I can finally see light at the end of a turgid season for Manchester United. Garth Crooks' team of the week: Rashford, Toure, Caballero, Lucas 2016-02-28T05:00:00Z Later, as another turgid opening half here neared its end, Mané’s touch was again awol when Dusan Tadic scooped in a ball that removed the slumbering United defence but the Senegalese could not control. Southampton’s Charlie Austin strikes late to add to Manchester United pain 2016-01-23T05:00:00Z The England team that won three consecutive Ashes series between 2009 and 2013 was successful, but not necessarily popular thanks to a turgid, attritional style. Stokes, Broad, Root & Bayliss - why England are exciting 2016-01-17T05:00:00Z Finally last Friday, Brown stood up, sort of, to Southern California Gas, the company responsible for the leaky well and the turgid response. California Editorial Roundup 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z The NFC East was a turgid mess all season long, but at least one of them has started to play well at just the right time. Redskins Claim N.F.C. East Title and End the Giants’ Playoff Chances 2015-12-27T05:00:00Z Reality does not similarly regulate the production of Marxist interpretations of “Middlemarch” or turgid monographs on the false consciousness of Parisian street sweepers in 1714. American higher education is a house divided 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z If its racist content and turgid style are not enough to put people off, the price of €59 means the new version is unlikely to embarrass Germans by becoming a bestseller. Mein Kampf: strange tales of the world's most dangerous book 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z By contrast Jack Conway, his Democratic opponent, has served two terms as the state’s attorney-general and—as one insider observes of his sometimes turgid remarks—may know too much about government. The outsider 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z Hello Alan, and after having doggedly followed every minute of the mostly turgid United v City match I find myself doing the same here. Liverpool 1-1 Southampton: Premier League – as it happened! 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z He didn’t issue long, turgid position papers that no one would read. The GOP’s denial won’t beat Trump 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z Conquest’s thesis was not that Soviet leaders studied Lenin’s turgid writings but that they were thoroughly marinated in the morals of the regime Lenin founded and that produced the repression machinery that produced Putin. The man who helped kill the Soviet Union with information 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z The scoring rate throughout the day was admirable –in excess of four runs per over – but turgid emasculating surfaces such as this do Test cricket few favours. Joe Root rides luck before sparking England revival against Australia 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z “Three points had been gained, but they had come at the cost of ultimately turgid football.” Allardyce ponders future at West Ham 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z GMT13:16 Hello Alan, and after having doggedly followed every minute of the mostly turgid United v City match I find myself doing the same here. Liverpool 1-1 Southampton: Premier League – as it happened! 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z Some Philadelphia fans had protested against the club's management before the game but were left celebrating after Pfeffer struck home from inside the area at the end of an otherwise turgid game. Kaka inspires Orlando to 4-0 thrashing of Galaxy 2015-05-17T04:00:00Z “Popular Economics” is delightfully free of turgid prose, technical paraphernalia, or boringly belabored nit-picky points. Kudos For John Tamny's New Book, Popular Economics 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z But in an otherwise turgid half, Wallace, Rangers' brightest spark, provided the killer touch in the dying minutes. Hibernian 0-2 Rangers 2015-03-21T04:00:00Z Benson is overfond of turgid passages wherein some character sits around thinking and praying, or praying and thinking, or merely thinking. Pope Francis, science fiction lover 2015-03-14T04:00:00Z And Brent Bozell issued a predictably turgid assessment of the threat America faces from terrorists the left: “Cultural fascism has arrived”: How the GOP blew its outreach to racial minorities 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z China’s Communist Party leaders are known for their turgid jargon, much of it dating back decades to when Mao Zedong still dominated dogma. What Is Xi's 'New Normal' Chinese Economy? 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z Dorrans’ penalty attempt was the only shot on target by both teams in a turgid first half. Hull, West Brom finish tepid 0-0 2014-12-06T05:00:00Z Rather than a turgid tome, Hill’s book is lively, entertaining — even at times laugh-out-loud funny. Book review: ‘Outpost: Life on the Frontlines of American Diplomacy,’ by Christopher Hill Republicans’ decisive win Tuesday is likely to ensure that President Obama’s final two years in office are marked by a level of gridlock and stagnation that surpasses even the last four turgid years. After a GOP shellacking, a new level of gridlock looms 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z New York Times film critic Ben Kenigsbergaug calls the film “turgid” and writes that it features “…the unvaried jingoism of a Michael Bay action sequence.” Record-smashing 16th Century Heroic Epic Captures Korea's 2014 Zeitgeist 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z Perhaps his turgid approach to the game is defined by some of the criticism in those early, ponytailed years. The Joy of Six: Roger Federer to Phil Tufnell - ponytailed sportsmen 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z As a result, his first attempts at composing the 10K piece were, in McWhorter’s words, “strange, depressed, hard, turgid and heavy.” Assignment to Create a Score for a 10K Led to Inner Struggles 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z If Lord’s and Headingley offered turgid surfaces for the series against Sri Lanka, then this dry, brown offering is playing the slowest of them all. England toil on slow pitch as India’s Murali Vijay makes unbeaten 122 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z Belgium is facing criticism for a turgid attack and late, narrow victories over Algeria, Russia and South Korea in group play. World Cup 2014: Belgium Is an Ascendant Soccer Power 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z The truly gobsmacking thing about Galloway's appearances is that you have to pay £11 to get in – but relax, I'm not going to make a turgid point about accounts and accountability. Nigel Farage, George Galloway … why we're queuing up to listen to the mavericks 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z A new makes the case, in the somewhat turgid language of economic research: As Cash Use Drops, Do Crime Rates Follow? 2014-03-28T16:30:35Z The excitement of the opening moments and an exchange of chances proved to be a false dawn ahead of a turgid first half. Arsenal 0-0 Manchester United 2014-02-12T22:00:09Z For the Daily Mirror though, the prime minister's slogan was "turgid" and offered "no hope at all". Papers ponder PM's conference speech 2013-10-03T05:06:00Z Finding gaps in the field that had eluded England in their often turgid first-innings' 238, they worked the ball around and punished anything off line. Bell century gives England edge 2013-08-11T17:56:05Z The headlines here used to be full of turgid claims about what some general or other was up to. Discovery of Burma in transition 2013-07-15T14:51:52Z He also promised the same ambition for his G8 summit next week promising practical results – "not for us some turgid communiqués with little purpose". UK success not in blindly embracing globalisation nor in going it alone – PM 2013-06-10T13:51:55Z Add the tackles of the London Welsh back row and the one-man blitz Gonzalo Tiesi, and there was little surprise that the scores were level at half-time, at a turgid 6-6. Gloucester 15-14 London Welsh 2013-03-23T18:33:15Z On a breezy afternoon, under a boiling sky, next to a turgid sea, Thompson and another man never make it past the 11th tee, 191 yards. Rock of Ages 2013-02-11T05:00:00Z Sorry, you see better tries every week in Rugby LEAGUE.To be fair though in the turgid game of Union , by those standards it was good. The greatest try ever scored? 2013-01-26T09:53:16Z Anything will be an improvement on the turgid fare Wolves fans have had to endure so far this season. Wolves confirm Saunders as boss 2013-01-07T09:05:06Z This was not one of them, a generally turgid affair in which bluntness undermined any glimpses of quality. Hearts 0-0 Hibernian 2013-01-03T21:51:57Z Most are laden with rosy promises, followed by acronyms and turgid advice. Off the Shelf: ‘Pound Foolish’ Eyes Problems of Personal Finance Advice 2012-12-29T18:20:49Z Of course Microsoft also defined certain types of enterprise software innovation with those turgid three year releases. The Year of Doom For Microsoft, Google and Apple 2012-12-28T16:34:53Z For most of a turgid first half they were content to sit back, allow Swansea to keep possession and ride their luck. Reading 0–0 Swansea City 2012-12-26T17:40:00Z Based on the evidence against Reading he needs to craft a plan to avoid the turgid back-and-forth-with-no-penetration approach that nearly saw City drop two points as they sought to keep up with Manchester United. Premier League: 10 talking points from this weekend's action 2012-12-24T09:00:15Z Results were mixed: a rampant win over Scotland, an equally emphatic defeat by Brazil, and a turgid goalless draw against Canada gave a pretty representative cross-section, ie: inconclusive. From Olympic Gold to Goonies 2012-12-21T14:00:00Z They were, after all, on their way to winning their third successive European Cup, the win over Madrid followed by an admittedly turgid victory over Juventus in the final. The Joy of Six: showboating 2012-12-14T10:09:21Z Last season had its moments but too much of the football was turgid and artless. From the archive 15/08/1992: Big bang or dull thud? Football's newly formed Premier League begins 2012-08-15T06:30:00Z Plus they frontload the show with turgid events, hoping to make you stay tuned until something interesting, like a swimming finals, is actually broadcast. Baffled and Bored by the Olympics 2012-07-31T18:02:00Z My Hollywood sensibility found these crude melodramas puzzling and somewhat turgid but then they were not made for relatively pampered East End kids like me. Madam Mao's model operas live on 2012-07-17T23:25:10Z It's generally regarded as the worst staging in the tournament's history, 11 days of turgid nonsense from a period when European football, at both club and international level, was in the doldrums. The Joy of Six: great European Championship goals 2012-06-15T09:03:42Z The world championship match has been in progress for a fortnight and the 12 games played at classical time controls, with up to six hours for a single game, were largely turgid. Viswanathan Anand crowned world chess champion for fifth time 2012-05-30T16:12:51Z I’ve never liked Henry James’s Portrait of a Lady, and large swaths of Faulkner feel turgid and overwritten to me, and I’m allergic to Pynchon. Prize Fight: Why I'm Okay With There Being No Pulitzer for Fiction This Year 2012-04-18T12:20:59Z Flowering glume oblong, turgid, and convex on the back; the flowers imbricated over one another before expansion; lower empty glume distinctly 3–5-nerved, the upper 5–9-nerved. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z Speedily the husband and wife were in the turgid center of things; part and parcel of imperial court life. Superwomen 2012-04-03T02:00:38.047Z They were a series of fantastic sermons, sometimes eloquent and instructive, sometimes turgid and absurd, on the moral duty of man. Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches 2012-04-01T02:00:10.050Z Its turgid, coffee-coloured waters rushed northward through a land of mystery and darkness, lapping the banks amid black mangrove swamps and at the feet of gigantic trees whose branches were tangled in confusion. The Fire-Gods A Tale of the Congo 2012-03-26T02:00:32.267Z To make turgid, as with water or air; to cause a swelling of the surface of, from effusion of serum in the cellular tissue, producing a morbid enlargement, often accompanied with softness. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z Spikes very large, globose 6 Spikes very small, sessile or nearly so 81–83, 85–92 Spikes cylindrical, heavy 24–28 Perigynium granular-roughened 23 Perigynium smooth, Thin and turgid, loosely enclosing the achene.— The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z Thus all the cells of the body become turgid, and altogether a great pressure is exerted outwards against the enclosing cuticular wall. Insect Stories 2012-03-21T02:00:36.600Z The questions are obviously pertinent, and they may seem the more so in that the cells adjoining the root-hair on its inner side are also turgid, and possess similar properties to those of the root-hairs. Disease in Plants 2012-03-01T03:00:22Z Has the man, the turgid fop and brute, whom I criticised her and all her sex for caring about, left her, then? Spiritual Adventures 2012-02-17T03:00:27.070Z Red and inflamed; suffused with blood, or having the vessels turgid with blood, as when the conjunctiva is inflamed or irritated. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z Pod ovoid or globular, with a broad partition; the turgid valves 1-nerved. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z A faint smile flitted over Cassidy's features, for this was the turgid eloquence of the mysterious newspaper whose editor was in Newgate. My Lords of Strogue, Vol. I (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:34.177Z Audiences just watched the finale of “Zhukov,” an expensive but rather turgid mini-series about Marshal Georgy Zhukov, the Red Army hero of World War II. The TV Watch: In Putin?s Russia, TV Mirrors Longing for Normalcy 2012-02-13T05:52:11Z The proud mausoleum, and the turgid epitaph, sink into insignificance beside this humble burst of maternal love—"My poor child!" Norman's New Orleans and Environs Containing a Brief Historical Sketch of the Territory and State of Louisiana and the City of New Orleans, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time 2012-02-13T03:00:18.260Z To grow turgid as by effusion of liquid in the cellular tissue; to puff out; to swell. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z Standard narrow, erect; pod turgid or inflated; perennial herbs. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z He appealed from passion to passion; from the soiled to the clean, from the turgid to the clear. Second String 2012-02-11T03:03:54.390Z There is a notable absence of the merely sonorous, the turgid declamation, the mouthing of strange words, and an absence of over-crowding thought or fancy. Tragedy 2012-01-31T03:00:19.343Z This was seventeen years before Goethe published his first part of Faust, a book which by its exquisite poetry was to extinguish for all self-respecting Germans Klinger’s turgid prose. The Life of George Borrow 2012-01-26T03:00:14.707Z Distended beyond the natural or usual size, as by the presence of water, serum, etc.; turgid; swollen; as, a bloated face. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z I. Pod turgid, completely or imperfectly 2-celled by the intrusion of the dorsal suture, the ventral suture being not at all or less deeply inflexed.—Astragalus proper. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z And so, though those principles do not appeal to us and though the expression of them is laborious, even turgid, De Monarchia is still hot with conviction. The Critical Game 2012-01-05T03:00:38.527Z Wherever the fertilized ovum remains and implants its villi the tube becomes turgid and swollen, and the abdominal ostium gradually closes. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 7 "Gyantse" to "Hallel" 2011-12-26T03:00:11.613Z These turgid thoughts are suggested by the behaviour of an American stopping at our hotel. In Pastures New 2011-12-23T03:00:12.717Z The country is burdened with a massive level of debt, turgid economic growth and a political system that until recently seemed paralyzed as its borrowing costs and pressure from financial markets increased. IMF boosts emergency response powers 2011-12-15T00:22:05Z Achenes short and thick, compressed or turgid, truncate, glabrous; pappus of 2–8 caducous awns. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z As the brain, in severe cases, exhibits symptoms of oppression, so on dissection it will be found red and turgid, enabling us to account for the convulsive movements during the termination of the malady. A Treatise on Sheep: The Best Means for their Improvement, General Management, and the Treatment of their Diseases. 2011-12-04T03:00:03.890Z And how poor in comparison is the turgid pulpit rhetoric of Dr. Farrar! The Book Of God In The Light Of The Higher Criticism 2011-11-24T03:00:46.897Z He is deep but never turgid, pleasant but never insipid, lofty but never bombastic. Beethoven: A Memoir (2nd Ed.) 2011-11-14T03:00:21.027Z A heavy, or sometimes turgid, journalistic commonplaceness sat upon it. Atlantic Classics 2011-10-16T02:00:18.497Z Lost in the bill’s turgid mandates is any recognition that quality is fundamentally different from quantity. Are we seeing glimmers of hope? 2011-10-14T08:00:00Z Lost in the bill’s turgid mandates is any recognition that quality is fundamentally different from quantity. Gov. Jerry Brown blasts data-based school reform 2011-10-09T17:26:00Z In the Senate they assailed with turgid eloquence every administration measure, whether it was good or bad, very much of their opposition being purely factious in character. Thomas Hart Benton 2011-10-09T02:00:26.053Z Fertile eggs that were in good condition had a characteristically turgid, springy feel and could be bounced off a hard surface. Natural History of the Ornate Box Turtle, Terrapene ornata ornata Agassiz 2011-10-01T02:00:30.200Z The bursting clouds, torn asunder by the wild winds, riven by the pent up lightning within their black and turgid breasts, disburdened themselves. The Chalice Of Courage A Romance of Colorado 2011-09-22T02:00:25.630Z Something was coming floating down the turgid river, right in the centre, and rapidly approaching me, swirling round and round in the current. In Touch with Nature Tales and Sketches from the Life 2011-08-31T02:01:35.803Z The jungle parted, and we were on a narrow turgid flood, the colour of the main river, but swifter; a majestic forest was near to either beam. The Sea and the Jungle 2011-08-30T02:00:30.350Z After seeing the type of football their city rivals played, fans were sceptical and Saturday's turgid display in the Midlands derby against Wolves showed they have a point. Five things we learned from the Premier League this weekend 2011-08-29T06:59:01Z There was a considerable quantity of water between the membranes, and as nearly as could be ascertained about four ounces in the ventricles, in the cavity of which, the veins appeared remarkably turgid. Observations on Insanity With Practical Remarks on the Disease and an Account of the Morbid Appearances on Dissection 2011-08-14T02:00:24.997Z Every one of its turgid and wordy lines bespeaks the struggling infancy of a National literature. Old Trails on the Niagara Frontier 2011-08-06T02:00:04.917Z Weary of sitting still through turgid masses, the carismáticos cranked up the liturgy up a few notches. Padre Rossi?s Will Save Your Soul 2011-07-25T05:00:00Z On me the onus has to fall Of your malevolent effusions; 'Tis I who bear the brunt of all Your libellous allusions; To bolster up your turgid verse, I jeopardise my very purse! More Misrepresentative Men 2011-07-20T02:00:14.390Z Mr. Rice apes neither the high-flown style of the Elizabethans, nor the turgid and cryptic style of Browning.... A Night in Avignon 2011-07-07T02:00:27.090Z Have they a want that wantons not with guile, A tear that is not turgid with deceit? The Immortal Lure 2011-07-06T02:00:50.730Z His style of writing was turgid and obscure, doing little justice to his acknowledged clearness of intellect. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 3, October, 1851 2011-07-02T02:00:11.323Z Certain ornamental appendages become enlarged, turgid, and brightly-coloured during the very act of courtship. The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex Volume II (1st Edition) 2011-06-27T02:01:01.007Z A dozen strokes more and the two officers were in the midst of a sluggish, turgid stream, their horizon bounded by banks of mist. Rounding up the Raider A Naval Story of the Great War 2011-06-24T02:00:25.163Z Why had he forgotten the spots in the path where the puddles never dried between rains, only congealed to turgid glue? Caribbee 2011-06-05T02:00:16.273Z She picked herself up to race through the second set before a turgid third where both players failed to show a killer instinct and just sent down a succession of baseline bombers. Pavlyuchenkova downs Zvonareva to reach quarters 2011-05-29T11:57:15Z The descendant of Charles II. was not eager to battle for the vindication of a policy arising out of the turgid German morals of the oddest figure that ever sat on the throne of England. The Viceroys of Ireland 2011-05-24T02:00:11.197Z Should painters attach to a fair human head The thick, turgid neck of a stallion, Or depict a spruce lass with the tail of a bass— I am sure you would guy the rapscallion! Hoosier Lyrics 2011-05-20T02:00:38.353Z While the other officers were sweeping the mudflat fringed banks with their glasses Denbigh directed his attention towards the turgid channel. Rounding up the Raider A Naval Story of the Great War 2011-06-24T02:00:25.163Z Soon after the ice goes out, while the water is still very rapid and turgid, the alewives run up, and they are as good eating as smelts, though too full of bones. A Northern Countryside 2011-04-27T02:00:22.523Z Santiago's style as a writer of love letters might be a little on the turgid side, but he knew how to make himself clear. The Five Arrows 2011-04-21T02:00:45.940Z She was snow white, and her eyes were dull and turgid. First Person Paramount 2011-04-07T02:00:19.233Z It was the one moment of real quality in a turgid match. Tired Spurs hope Peter Crouch can be Real thing in Champions League 2011-04-04T06:01:03Z They were hippopotami, that literally swarmed in the turgid water. Rounding up the Raider A Naval Story of the Great War 2011-06-24T02:00:25.163Z The long theoretical parts are indeed turgid and in places downright stupid. Nazi craze 2011-03-17T09:13:05Z The World Cup in South Africa was a financial success, but the common conception is that the football was turgid. Mohamed bin Hammam targets Europe to help him unseat Sepp Blatter 2011-03-10T14:20:54Z No healthy green, but pallid, cream-colored toadstools, some bright orange, lavender, and purple molds, vivid carmine "rusts" and mildews, spreading up the banks from the turgid slime. The Mad Planet 2011-03-02T03:00:25.117Z He looked at the bulbous eyelids, the too-evenly tinted skin, the turgid veins in the brilliant eyes, and perhaps saw more than Mrs. Saumarez dreamed. The Revellers 2011-02-26T03:00:50.133Z To return to the Myra with their garments shedding streams of turgid water would never do, since they had no other clothes. Rounding up the Raider A Naval Story of the Great War 2011-06-24T02:00:25.163Z There was something new at the Abbey, something which spoke to him intimately, which was crowding his somewhat turgid brain with the one great imagining of his life. The Wicked Marquis 2011-02-24T03:01:06.123Z The turgid river splashed with Dutchmen, like a school of porpoises, making with what speed they could—for the water was exceedingly cold—towards the rock-bound shore. The Plowshare and the Sword A Tale of Old Quebec 2011-02-24T03:01:05.143Z He went past the thicket in which the great moths hid during the day, and past the pool—a turgid thing of slime and yeast—in which a monster water snake lurked. The Mad Planet 2011-03-02T03:00:25.117Z This is of course unfair – no doubt the selection of guests was entirely random – but this is what the turgid contortions of sexism-denial and racism-apologia do to your reasoning. Flagging Andy Gray and Richard Keys lack the pace for radio 2011-02-14T22:48:21Z This done the Myra took her big consort in tow, and against the now strong ebb-tide slowly crawled up the turgid river. Rounding up the Raider A Naval Story of the Great War 2011-06-24T02:00:25.163Z Fourth quarter earnings of £703m came in 3% below our forecast.In our view the turgid nature of Reckitt's categories is weighing on the group's revenue prospects and the base is already very high. Reckitt drops nearly 4% as fourth quarter profits disappoint 2011-02-09T09:37:00Z The larger creeks bore a turgid tide, level with their banks, on the surface of which tree-stems and branches, with differing samples of d�bris, whirled floating down. The Crooked Stick or Pollies's Probation 2011-02-06T03:01:00.547Z Actors and dramatic critics have often commented on the power that resides in Shakespeare's words to move an uncultured audience far more strongly than it can be moved by turgid melodrama. Comfort Found in Good Old Books 2011-01-31T03:00:11.907Z The fruit resembles a small cucumber, and when ripe is highly turgid, and separates almost at a touch from the fruit stalk. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 2 "Ehud" to "Electroscope" 2011-01-29T03:00:23.777Z The river, swollen with the late rains, rushed in mad haste on its course, its dark and turgid torrent rolling onwards with a low, sullen roar. No Surrender 2011-01-29T03:00:22.467Z As a London critic very neatly said, “With this dainty and delicate California desperado, Bret Harte vanquished forever the turgid villains of Ainsworth and Lytton.” The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z He could feel his liver, a hot turgid weight; even, mark its huge boundary upon the surface of his body. She Buildeth Her House 2011-01-04T03:01:05.167Z Should the young die or be removed during this period, the parents are liable to die, suffering severely from the turgid congestion of the hypertrophied walls of the crop. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" 2010-12-20T17:12:05.780Z What else did all that turgid stuff in The Times about "maximum faculties" mean? The Tower of Oblivion 2010-12-20T17:11:53.787Z Both sides were turgid in the first half, but in the second we were much more fluid. Championship Verdict: The Observer fans' network on Saturday's matches 2010-12-04T20:34:00Z "These early morning starts can be rather turgid affairs," said the commentator, very far from on-message, after 10 rather turgid minutes. Simon Burnton: TV's answer to the giant Curly Wurly 2010-10-17T23:06:00Z There were fewer turgid official speeches, more snazzy seminars and even an outdoor café for visiting nobs to chat in the unseasonably warm weather. Currency wars: Fumbling towards a truce 2010-10-14T11:20:00Z It is true that Capello was considered all but flawless on the way to a World Cup where his team suddenly looked turgid and antiquated. Kevin McCarra: Capello keen to regain old renown 2010-08-30T23:06:00Z “When we were all looking from afar, he had a curious ability to see meaning through the rather turgid documents that were our version of their reality.” Franz Schurmann, Cold War Expert on China, Dies at 84 2010-08-27T03:01:00Z The football, though, was about as appealing as an angry Chris Morgan and season-ticket sales for this campaign dropped, with one of the causal factors, anecdotally at least, the team's turgid style of play. Gary Speed must provide style as well as substance at Sheffield United 2010-08-17T12:00:00Z I've been fortunate with the matches I've been assigned to report on, but yesterday I was at Paraguay v Japan ... which wasn't quite as turgid as Slovenia v Algeria, but it was still pretty poor. World Cup day 20 - live! 2010-06-30T07:30:00Z New Zealand have started relatively cautiously; I guess they feel that, on this relatively turgid pitch, a total of 140 is par. England v New Zealand - live! 2010-05-10T16:54:00Z Speaking at an event to launch British Food Fortnight, the duchess said jokes about British food being "dull, turgid and over-boiled" were "utter rubbish". Duchess of Cornwall champions 'under-rated' British produce 2010-04-22T19:12:00Z The Communist Party’s turgid broadsheet, the People’s Daily, published an article on the top of its second page by the prime minister, Wen Jiabao. China's leaders: Hu, Wen?what, why and how 2010-04-22T00:24:00Z “Here I was — former general counsel of the Treasury, former general counsel of a Fortune 100 financial services company — asking my lawyer to help me through 100 pages of incomprehensible, turgid gobbledygook.” Trench Warfare on Financial Reform: Send in the Deputies 2010-04-17T20:00:00Z The contempt of some could be attributed to turgid performances many considered beneath their team, while for others it was Strachan's lack of a suitably "Celtic" sensibility. Barry Glendenning: Five things we learned this weekend 2010-04-12T13:41:00Z But Bangladesh's batting line-up commands more respect these days, and the pitches were so turgid that they drove everyone to distraction. England's deputy Alastair Cook stands down a happy and wiser man 2010-03-24T23:10:00Z Then the Backwater runs brown and turgid into the pond till the lilies tug at their green anchor chains and the Moat itself is lipping full of black, peaty water from the hills. Deep Moat Grange When, however, we place the shrivelled flower in water, the contracted protoplasm swells up again and refills the cells, which become turgid, and the flower revives. The Mechanism of Life You have but to scratch the surface of human misery anywhere in our cities and you find the turgid stream of alcohol. Victory out of Ruin It is easy to guess that Longfellow, in his “North American Review” article, drew from Dr. Chivers and his kin his picture of those “writers, turgid and extravagant,” to be found in American literature. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The fact that protoplasmic material can exist in turgid form with such high percentages of water as these is due, as has been pointed out, to its existence as a colloidal gel. The Chemistry of Plant Life And when from her toil she lifted her turgid bosom, her sun-browned face with glossy curls surrounded, how then thy vesper fires, O Tuscany, did richly tinge with color her bold figure! Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. VIII He employs for this purpose the turgid cells of the plant Tradescantia discolor. The Mechanism of Life Finally we are wearied with a constant repetition of the same epithets and similes, and with turgid descriptions; even the grotesque exaggerations pall when we find them to be stereotyped. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" They are vastly important to comedians who may not be specially gifted for improvisation; and everything of the sort I found in their repertory was vitiated by the turgid mannerisms of the seicento. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi Volume the Second Losses of water from the protoplasmic gel decrease its "swollen" condition and so render the tissue soft and flabby; while increases in water content swell the gel and make the tissue stiff and turgid. The Chemistry of Plant Life Tried by the Boileau and Pope standard, his writings were pronounced turgid, strained, and extravagant. Young's Night Thoughts With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes His turgid discourses, where every metaphor seemed to have escaped from a store's price-list, were to them more fruitful of imaginative results than any poet's song. Carnival Reporters often give to their stories a wordy and turgid flavor by their refusal to repeat a word, preferring a synonym. The Style Book of The Detroit News An expanse of yellow, turgid water, at least a hundred and fifty yards wide, lay before them. Renshaw Fanning's Quest A Tale of the High Veldt We have seen how he speaks of Anselm; in the same tone, in the same florid, turgid, pedantic style he was constantly boasting of his achievements. Women of Mediæval France Woman: in all ages and in all countries Vol. 5 (of 10) Already his form is often turgid, amenable to no discipline, tends to lead him astray. A Novelist on Novels In a strain bombastic and turgid, but marked at times by flashes of real eloquence, he launched out into one of those rhapsodies which formed the staple of his popular addresses. Gerald Fitzgerald The Chevalier The speech of Leonard to the cursory reader may perhaps sometimes appear careless, and sometimes turgid and stiff. The Lusiad or The Discovery of India, an Epic Poem The turgid lip, the piggish eye, The nose in form of hook, The rings, the pins, you tell them by, The vulgar flashy look. Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) If the pains be false, the convulsion will be felt to render turgid the muscles of the abdomen, but nothing within it will at the same time feel hard. The Dog The river was much swollen and flowing over its rocky bed with turgid violence. Los Gringos Or, An Inside View of Mexico and California, with Wanderings in Peru, Chili, and Polynesia And the light broods over the stagnant pools of the yellow San Jose; and the turgid, muddy river flows pure gold. Through Our Unknown Southwest Clement professed to despise rhetoric, but was himself a rhetorician, and his style is turgid, involved and difficult. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 4 "Cincinnatus" to "Cleruchy" It looks like the composition of a young man: harsh and turgid in parts, but interspersed with some rather beautiful touches. English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century The creek, before clear and placid, quickly became turgid and agitated. Our campaign around Gettysburg Being a memorial of what was endured, suffered and accomplished by the Twenty-third regiment (N. Y. S. N. G.) and other regiments associated with them, in their Pennsylvania and Maryland campaign, during the second rebel invasion of the loyal states in June-July, 1863 "What's going to happen to the overflow?" he asked anxiously, peering at the turgid sea of faces outside. Telempathy Sara had ideas, but her mode of expression inclined to the turgid. By-ways in Book-land Short Essays on Literary Subjects The fine forms of classic beauty could never be cast in so rough a mould as his prose; and his turgid unmusical verses betrayed qualities of mind incompatible with the delicacy of poetry. Calamities and Quarrels of Authors His letter to Mr. Erskine, subsequently Earl of Mar, testifies, in its turgid, turbulent phrases, to a perfect passion of alarmed self-respect and vanity. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 3 (of 25) Even in that turgid moment, when she turned these speculations, guilty hopes, wild fears, in her mind, Isom’s eyelids quivered, dropped; and the sounding breath in his nostrils ceased. The Bondboy All really good music corresponds to such a standard; that is, if it is needlessly involved, abstruse, diffuse, or turgid, it is in so far not music of the highest artistic worth. Music: An Art and a Language I had heard enough revolutionary talk among my workmen fellow-passengers; but most of it was hot and turgid, and fell discredited from the lips of unsuccessful men. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 2 (of 25) Joseph Warton, who indignantly rejects it from his edition of Pope, asserts that “we have not in our language a more striking example of true turgid expression, and genuine fustian and bombast.” Calamities and Quarrels of Authors He concentrated a frowning gaze upon it—perhaps in falling into the soiled atmosphere of the earth it had lost its crystal gleam and burned with a turgid light. Wild Oranges Was it the night that made his pulses heavy and turgid? Hope Mills or, Between Friend and Sweetheart Compositions are rich and gorgeous but at the same time inflated, turgid and bombastic. Music: An Art and a Language He could not, indeed, shake off altogether the fetters of the conventional diction current in his day, and his style is often turgid and verbose. The Age of Pope (1700-1744) In criticising Tintoretto, men seem often unable to discriminate between the turgid and melodramatic, and the spontaneous and temperamental. The Venetian School of Painting It drove on tumultuously, and a mad turgid flood came on behind. The Greater Power Here it flowed a sluggish, turgid stream, so sullen, so heavy. The Twins of Suffering Creek The skies were turgid and black and the massed clouds, reflecting the lights of the great city below them, were permeated with an ugly, feverish, red glow. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, March 1930 I held her as though all life's turgid danger were powerless to touch us. Astounding Stories of Super-Science April 1930 Without any assistance from turgid rhetoric, or indignant denunciation, he depicted it in a manner so simple, yet so direct, that his audience shivered in response. Australia Revenged We remember that even Gibbon interrupts the turgid flow of his spirit to tell us in his Autobiography that he really could, and often did, enjoy a game of cards in the evening. The Book of Khalid Beyond him, to the right, following the river bank, the ground declined gradually towards a black-looking, turgid and overgrown swamp. The Twins of Suffering Creek A few hundred miles of tumbled Lowlands, embracing the turgid Nares Sea, whose bottom is the lowest point of all the Western Hemisphere—some thirty thousand feet below the zero-height. Astounding Stories of Super-Science September 1930 Here and there among the turgid muddle, out of the impact of unassimilated things, comes a spark of real poetry. Rosinante to the Road Again But it was a surging, turgid wind, instinct with compressed vigour of life. The Rainbow There was not a light gleam on the whole surface, and dark shadows seemed to crawl and twist about in the very substance of the heavy and turgid waters. The River Prophet Here they dropped to a walk as they splashed their way through the turgid stream. The Twins of Suffering Creek I do not at present recall what my recitation was, but it was probably Catiline's Defense or some other of the turgid declamatory pieces of classic literature with which all our readers were filled. A Son of the Middle Border Nothing to the turgid river, draining all effluvia from the yellow heart of this festering land. Peter the Brazen A Mystery Story of Modern China A turgid, teeming night, heavy with fecundity in which every molecule of matter grew big with increase, secretly urgent with fecund desire, seemed to come to pass. The Rainbow His gravity and sadness as he said it may have been not so much duplicity as a reflection from his turgid current of thought of the last two days. Somehow Good From that vision Beth would fly down the steps to the sands, and escape it in a healthy race with the turgid waves that came cresting in and broke on the barren shore. The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius The play was a turgid coagulation of illogical episodes lacking in all plausibility. Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905 Suddenly, maddened by the stubborn hindrance, the river grows black and turgid. The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin The former consists of distinct pustules, which appear on the fourth day of the fever, are circumscribed and turgid; the fever ceasing when the eruption is complete. Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life So far as could be seen at all through the turgid atmosphere of the room, it was a parallelogram of solid opacity crossed by a window-frame, with a hopeless tinge of Roman ochre. Somehow Good He succeeded in attracting notice by his personal beauty and by the rather turgid eloquence which was his chief talent. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07 The collar-pores are remarkable for their constancy; this is probably owing co the fact that they have become adapted to a special function, the inhalation of water to render the collar turgid during progression. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Poisons of the foulest kind pollute the water which flows down the turgid Conemaugh into the Allegheny River, whence is Pittsburgh's water-supply, and thence into the Ohio, the water-supply of many cities and towns. The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin The nipples of lactescent women are liable to become turgid at the sight of their young offspring. Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Like a thick miasmic cloud, as we read this great pagan critic, all the fogs and vapours of turgid hyperborean superstition are driven away from the face of the warm sun. Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations The style is nervous and replete with beauties, but, according to the corrupted taste of the time in which they were written, abounds too much with ornament, is often turgid and inflated. The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 6, June 1810 But if the tales should succeed in taking a child with them in their strange exploits into a strange land, they would surely fail to take him into the turgid human drama they picture. Here and Now Story Book Two- to seven-year-olds "Johnson's turgid style"—"What does not fade?"—Can any of your readers tell me where to find the following lines? Notes and Queries, Number 207, October 15, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. Swiftly that mass lost both movement and shape as it melted down into a pool of turgid purple slime. Zehru of Xollar It humps up under his nose, up and up, in bubbles, and the bubbles burst and run in turgid- 88 - streams down upon his shaggy beard. The Backwash of War The Human Wreckage of the Battlefield as Witnessed by an American Hospital Nurse The face was sometimes turgid and high coloured, at other times pallid and contracted. Cases of Organic Diseases of the Heart In what raptures have I seen an audience, at the furious fustian and turgid rants in Nat. The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Vol I, No. 2, February 1810 "I own I like not Johnson's turgid style, That gives an inch th' importance of a mile," &c. &c. Notes and Queries, Number 207, October 15, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. The queen's belly is very turgid before she begins laying the eggs of drones; but it sensibly decreases as she advances, and when terminated is very small. New observations on the natural history of bees The dominant style among mystics," says von Hartmann, "is metaphorical in the extreme—now flat and ordinary, more often turgid and emphatic. Essay on the Creative Imagination His countenance is turgid, and uniformly suffused with blood; his eyes are bright and animated; his lips livid. Cases of Organic Diseases of the Heart Ruadhthuill, therefore, is the red flood, and any one who has seen the red turgid waters of the Ruchill in time of flood will see that the name is significant of the thing itself. Chronicles of Strathearn "In what turgid melodrama does not just such an episode occur?" A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time There was a roar higher up the ravine, and a turgid flood, streaked with frothy lines, came pouring down the new channel, bearing with it small nut bushes and great clumps of matted grass. Prescott of Saskatchewan He watched the dark billowing clouds not from above but below reflected in the turgid green sheen of the expanding puddles that in this perennial rain formed of the ground a lake. An Apostate: Nawin of Thais Moore’s part is agreeably and feelingly written, and in a very different style from the ‘Life of Sheridan’—no turgid diction and brilliant antitheses. The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. I She was pushed roughly back into the turgid crowd and would have fallen had not an arm sustained her. The Secret Witness Never would he have more turgid, pent-up, tearing emotions to get rid of than now. Black Oxen Not a breath of wind blew, and the air was heavy and turgid. "The Pomp of Yesterday" Unlike himself or the one in the denim jacket who both had a golden brown complexion, his was a muddier, more turgid tone. An Apostate: Nawin of Thais The eloquence may be turgid, but the attitude is dignified. From a Cornish Window A New Edition Tips at first large, turgid, oval, touching at bottom, of a yellowish colour, and often spotted; lastly changing both their form and situation in a singular manner. An Account of the Foxglove and some of its Medical Uses With Practical Remarks on Dropsy and Other Diseases But his addresses are turgid, labouring, and not effective for their purpose. Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 2 of 3) Essay 3: Condorcet Seeing, then," says Harvey, "that the moderately tight ligature renders the veins turgid, and the whole hand full of blood, I ask, Whence is this? Fathers of Biology Insubordinate to France it certainly is, and intemperate; turgid, too, as any youth of twenty could well make it. The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. I. (of IV.) Shall gentle Coleridge pass unnoticed here, To turgid ode and tumid stanza dear? Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism After death, about two ounces and a half of water were found in the ventricles of the brain, and the vessels of the dura mater were turgid with blood. An Account of the Foxglove and some of its Medical Uses With Practical Remarks on Dropsy and Other Diseases But I couldn't help wondering— Morning dawned gloomily; there was a light mist hanging over the streambed, and much of the sky was turgid with clouds. Attrition If the pressure be now removed, the empty part of the vein will fill instantly and look as turgid as before. Fathers of Biology Miss Francis pierced his turgid explanation with a sharp spate of words in what I took to be German. Greener Than You Think He has the trick of joining the turgid and familiar: to buy the alliance of Britain, “Climes were paid down.” The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II Blood-vessels turgid with blood, and many of those of considerable size distended with air. An Account of the Foxglove and some of its Medical Uses With Practical Remarks on Dropsy and Other Diseases A turgid inflation in the tragic passages, a tendency to bombast, even more apparent in the man of forty-six than in the boy of nineteen, mar the calm strength of many of his scenes. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873 When twelve o'clock struck, Sir Ellis was still in the full flow of his turgid eloquence. The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 30, June 1893 An Illustrated Monthly Johnson is often turgid and pompous, often grandiose with an artificial and undesired grandiloquence. Dr. Johnson and His Circle He had least success in his lyrick attempts, in which he seems to have been under some malignant influence: he is always labouring to be great, and at last is only turgid. The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II The fourth glume is coriaceous, shining, turgid, broadly ovate, acute, paleate. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses And at his feet The world passed on—the surging crowd Of men and women, passionate, turgid, dense, Keenly alert, lethargic, or obese. The Book of Humorous Verse My thought is too turgid to receive the impress of them. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance The head is extended, the body profusely perspiring; pulse very rapid; soon great exhaustion becomes manifest; the mucous membranes become turgid and very dark colored, and the animal thus may suffocate in a short time. Special Report on Diseases of the Horse I did not want it, this furnace, this draught-maddened fire which mounts up my arms making them swell with turgid, ungovernable strength. Look! We Have Come Through! I was condemned to look upon them all with mercenary eyes, to turn their gladness into torpid prose, and speak their praises in turgid columns. Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War It is turgid—dark—all is confusion—spirits are assembling—they are spirits of unrest—there is no peace—no happiness. The Fighting Shepherdess Most of it is turgid, lumpy, fuzzy in texture, squalid in intellect. Pipefuls Kiss but then the dust from off my lips, But draw the turgid pain From my breast to your bosom, eclipse My soul again. Amores Poems Coulter scanned the full arch of sky visible through the curving panels of the dome, thinking the turgid thoughts that always came when action was near. Slingshot Its turgid waters were often rough enough to sink a rowing shell, and its busy traffic was a thing with which to reckon. A Labrador Doctor The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell His familiar style was dry and turgid: if the style exhibit the man, how I pity M. de Blacas! Memoirs of the Private Life, Return, and Reign of Napoleon in 1815, Vol. I For in the grey smoke of mist those treacherous pools crept noiselessly to my feet, and once I had almost walked blindly into an ice-clear turgid little lake. John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn With a sweep of his arm the man indicated the surface of the turgid flood. Prairie Flowers When full-grown, it is about 3½ inches in length, having the body large and turgid, and increasing in circumference from the head towards the opposite extremity. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 451 Volume 18, New Series, August 21, 1852 The beginning, say the Critics, ought to be plain and simple; neither embellished with the flowers of poetry, nor turgid with pomposity of diction. Parodies of Ballad Criticism (1711-1787) A Comment Upon the History of Tom Thumb, 1711, by William Wagstaffe; The Knave of Hearts, 1787, by George Canning Her dark face grew turgid with impotent anger. The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance Define the following words and use them in sentences: railed, maundered, coxcomb, parasite, conclave, turgid, folio, overture. Teachers' Outlines for Studies in English Based on the Requirements for Admission to College No amount of reasoning, however sound, would have moved the turgid intellects of those miners. Hollowmell or, A Schoolgirl's Mission It is no progress, therefore, to worship the turgid and obscure, whether in words or music, or both. Spirit and Music He was so sure of this that he not only produced yards of turgid verse, defying every law of construction and metre, but he even had some of it printed. The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert The Very Young Man stood ankle deep in the turgid little rivulet, a tightness clutching at his chest, and with his head whirling. The Girl in the Golden Atom A broad expanse of turgid water met their eyes, broken here and there with a few objects such as treetops. Afloat on the Flood At certain seasons heavy rainstorms occur, and a veritable deluge descends upon the cracked ground and fills the dry river-beds and arroyos with a turgid flood. Mexico Its Ancient and Modern Civilisation, History, Political Conditions, Topography, Natural Resources, Industries and General Development This may be airy, light, and gossamer, or turgid and obscure: it may be commonplace or ponderous. Spirit and Music Young is sometimes turgid, with a good deal of bad taste; but he abounds in real poetry, and in strong truths most forcibly expressed. Advice to a Young Man upon First Going to Oxford In Ten Letters, From an Uncle to His Nephew It is happily compounded in about equal parts of turgid fine writing, vulgar jauntiness and indiscriminate slang. The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume I (of X) - Greece Now by your wanton work my girl appears With turgid eyelids tinted rose by tears. The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus He was up in the saddle with the last word, and gone, galloping into the pitchy black smoke that swirled like a turgid flood from burning Ascalon across the square. Trail's End In the very page to which he refers, Elmham, in his turgid manner, assures us that at Henry's coronation the tumultuous clang of so many trumpets made the heavens resound with the roar of thunder. Henry of Monmouth, Volume 2 Memoirs of Henry the Fifth The picture is overdrawn for modern taste, but making due allowance for Mountjoy's turgid efforts to emulate his master's eloquence, enough remains to indicate the impression made by Henry on a peer of liberal education. Henry VIII. Simply stated, it would have been far more solemn and impressive than this turgid, insincere account with its large words, its forced note of tragedy and its split infinitive. The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume I (of X) - Greece It was a brief letter, turgid, almost fierce in its tone. Jane Journeys On But his style was too often prolix, sententious, and turgid—faults which marked nearly all the writing done in this country in those days. John Quincy Adams American Statesmen Series Up past the brown Maricopas they worked, across the turgid Gila, skirting Lone Butte desert; up, up and on until in the distance glistened the bald peaks of Silver range. Horses Nine Stories of Harness and Saddle This was seventeen years before Goethe published his first part of Faust, a book which by its exquisite poetry was to extinguish for all self-respecting Germans Klinger's turgid prose. George Borrow and His Circle Wherein May Be Found Many Hitherto Unpublished Letters Of Borrow And His Friends When the weather cleared on April 27, the ocean was turgid, plainly tinged river-color by inland waters; but ground swell of storm and tide rolled across the shelving sandbars. Vikings of the Pacific The Adventures of the Explorers who Came from the West, Eastward But to the calmer judgment of later generations this celebrated oration seems turgid and overstrained. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" A verbose and turgid message has come over from Capri. Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 His turgid odes, stuffed with classical allusions, in praise of Anne and Elizabeth, are still committed to memory by pupils at educational establishments. Russia As Seen and Described by Famous Writers Some hundred odd souls were gathered there, where the stern-wheel steamers that ply the turgid Skeena reach the head of navigation. North of Fifty-Three And from above, in spite of the turgid quality of the liquid, they could see what did rest on the bottom of that oval. Star Hunter Down the yellow and turgid path of swollen waters each spring went huge rafted masses of logs manned by brawny fellows who at other times never saw the world that lay "down below." A Pagan of the Hills I held her as though all of life's turgid dangers were powerless to touch us. Brigands of the Moon It is a peaceful end to a turgid career.... The Loom of Youth I saw a fathomless, a bottomless abyss, which yawned beneath the turgid waves. A Journey to the Centre of the Earth Down in those turgid depths he made out a straight ridge running with a trueness of line which could not be nature's unassisted product. Star Hunter Fast is as fast must be, without being either supersonic or turgid. Treachery in Outer Space For some reason he disliked the thought of swimming that stream, of having his skin laved by the turgid water with its brown sheen. Star Born Strange craft, large and small, rode down the turgid sweep. Old Kaskaskia Forcible and energetic in style, her strain never becomes turgid or diverges into commonplace. The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century At the same time, the volume of any limb increases as the peripheral parts of the body become turgid with blood. Scientific American Supplement, No. 1178, June 25, 1898 More than once, in the empty rambling talk which he poured forth in a turgid stream during their infrequent meetings, he had told her so, with extravagant phrase and gesture. An Alabaster Box Though it had an oily, flowing current, there was a suggestion of stagnant water with unpleasant surprises waiting beneath its turgid surface. Star Born The veins on her forehead grew turgid, her lips seemed to swell, her hair seemed to move as she talked. The Portion of Labor Lastly, it began to dawn upon Tom that "Francesca: a Tragedy" was a somewhat turgid performance, and on me that a holiday on Sunday was demanded by six days of work. Dead Man's Rock Don’t you find him too declamatory, too turgid, too unnatural, even in his best tragedies? Dialogues of the Dead My couch! that oft hath woo'd me to repose, 'Mid sorrows vast—Love's iv'ried hand hath stole Griefs turgid stream, which o'er thee it doth roll, That hand which good on all but me bestows. The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch When he ceased to be witty, sarcastic, or vituperative, he became turgid. Political and Literary essays, 1908-1913 The river at this point is turgid and rocky, and there are two or three rapids almost worthy of the name of falls. Herzegovina Or, Omer Pacha and the Christian Rebels Opulence, self-indulgence, good-nature, and a certain element of fanatical fire mingled in the atmosphere of the postmaster's office, and made it somewhat turgid. The Mormon Prophet One of the lawyers made a long, turgid, "profound"—and musty—argument; proceeding like a draft-horse from mile-post to mile-post, until the alert mind of the judge was almost frantic with impatience. The Young Man and the World He is grandiloquent and turgid to an extent which often obscures his meaning. Anglo-Saxon Literature He complained that nobody who had read it observed that it was touching, not remembering that even the most tender feeling fails to touch us, when it has found stilted and turgid expression. Critical Miscellanies (Vol 2 of 3) Essay 1: Vauvenargues Ignorance that is content with itself is turgid and saturated. The Secret of a Happy Home (1896) Most modern readers will be surprised that any sensible people could think otherwise than Dr. Johnson did of such a farrago of highflown sentiment clothed in the most turgid language. The English Church in the Eighteenth Century It sometimes rose in a turgid flood, but more often it sank and delivered up its ghost to such an extent that a man could have held it in his hat. The Furnace of Gold The judge, his opponent, was a rather turgid man whose speech had abounded in flights of denunciation and whose appeal had been made frankly to prejudice and party rancor. The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush His stiff, turgid style makes his works in many places most difficult to understand, as the present translators have found to their cost, and he was therefore practically unreadable to the general public. Autobiography of Friedrich Froebel translated and annotated by Emilie Michaelis ... and H. Keatley Moore. I do not: I find them turgid and tumid no end. A Cynic Looks at Life |
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