单词 | turgidity |
例句 | Such work demands abundant creativity, performance skill, discipline and that elusive thing called talent to pave the way — and keep pretentiousness and turgidity at bay. Risk-taking Seattle theaters offer wild surprises 2011-12-01T00:35:04Z The clichéd story line pursues turgidity with a relentless determination. Review: ‘The Duelist’ Is a Good Shot. A Very Good Shot. 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z Rated R. Violence, nudity, drug use, language, turgidity. Review: ‘Future World,’ With James Franco, Is Present-Tense Wretchedness 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z In a piece as graceful and zesty as the Ravel, the slowly accumulating strength of the orchestra could be taken for turgidity. The Boston Symphony Finds Surprises and Strengths in New Music 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z “Just from a scientific, botanical perspective, there’s no way that a plant can lose that much of its turgidity — the positive water pressure that keeps its stem rigid,” she explains. What do Trader Joe's flowers really need to stay alive? (Hint: Not the latest TikTok hack) 2023-05-03T04:00:00Z Every so often an academic article liberates itself from the bonds of turgidity that characterize scholarly prose, and instead welcome readers with a refreshing gust of literary flair. No, you don't have a "lizard brain": Why the Psychology 101 model of the brain is all wrong 2020-05-17T04:00:00Z There was his batting, notable for its skill and tenacity but also for its turgidity and self-absorption, tending towards selfishness. Ashes 2019: England v Australia, fifth Test day one – live! 2019-09-12T04:00:00Z My problem with the initial San Francisco production was its rhetorical turgidity. Tony Kushner’s ‘A Bright Room Called Day’ gets an animated staging by The Williams Project 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z We propose that turgidity and rigid cell walls, typical of plants, impose constraints that are specifically modified for a given developmental process. [Report] A Spatial Accommodation by Neighboring Cells Is Required for Organ Initiation in Arabidopsis 2014-01-09T18:56:44.097Z Ditto Germany 2006, where group games were followed by knockout stages characterised by timidity and turgidity. Where does South Africa 2010 rank compared to other World Cups? 2010-07-11T14:14:00Z Her nature was not capable of really understanding turgidity, but she did better than most people inasmuch as she avoided forming wrong judgments about it. Manslaughter Their guardian cells or lips, which are soft and delicate, like those of the green pulp within, by their greater or less turgidity open or close the orifice as the moisture or dryness varies. The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools The serenity and calm of Plato and Aristotle are gone, and in their place we have turgidity and extravagance. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy It has been reported that the stems of grasses and cereal plants become stiffer in the presence of ample calcium, but this may be due to greater turgidity rather than to strengthened cell-walls. The Chemistry of Plant Life What remains, is a species of pseudo-emotion which must be characterized as lachrymose hysteria or turgidity. Sketch of a New Esthetic of Music In listening to Chopin we are never conscious of turgidity, of diffuseness, of labored treatment of material. Music: An Art and a Language He too had something marshy about him—the succulent moistness and turgidity, and the same brackish, nauseating effect of a marsh, where life and decaying are one. The Rainbow I realized where the contents of the bottle had gone by the sententiousness of my friend's phrasing, the slight turgidity, so to speak, of his articulation. The Motor Pirate No one can for a moment doubt that her feelings are real, but neither can the turgidity and bombast of her language be denied. Mary Wollstonecraft Occasional turgidity of phrase and unidiomatic handling of language do not conceal the simplicity of the process by which Mr. Carlyle pierces through obstruction down to the abstrusest depths. Critical Miscellanies, Vol. I Essay 2: Carlyle In some of the provers active inflammatory congestion of the right lung ensued, with turgidity of the liver. Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure As to the style, it is so praiseworthy that we will not specifically censure occasional defects,—for the most part, slight turgidities notable chiefly from their contrast to the prevailing simplicity of the narrative. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 117, July, 1867. But the tendency to turgidity may proceed from debility alone. Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4 There is sometimes an obscurity in her fancies, and a turgidity in her language. English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction Never did men speak so much to say so little; the empty verbiage and swollen emphasis swamp any truth there may be beneath their monotony and their turgidity. The Psychology of Revolution There is nothing in them excessive, nothing overwrought, nothing strained into turgidity, obscurity, and nonsense. Literary and Social Essays High turgidity and weak development of the mechanical and supporting tissues are the anatomical cause of this deficiency, the bast-fibers showing thinner walls than those of the parent-type under the microscope. Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation The phenomenal success to which he subsequently rose was characteristic of the prevailing turgidity and confusion of the popular mind. Great Fortunes from Railroads Or they represent and share the turgidity of the minds they interpret, like some of the work of Walt Whitman. Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism Carlyle's weakest works are those that lose the honest simplicity of its style in a forced turgidity and affected roughness. Study of the King James Bible |
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