Word: turgid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...diplomats, this turgid language was as clear as a Hull curse. It meant that: 1) the U.S. would not recognize the revolutionary regime of Bolivia's new President, Major Gualberto Villarroel; 2) the U.S. blamed Argentina and Nazi Germany for putting the Villarroel junta in power; 3) a hemispheric united front was being formed to smash it. An even stronger blast against both Bolivia and Argentina was scheduled for this week...
...being sold to service men in cheap editions. The simplified form makes Plato's ideas easier to understand, and more of it can be covered in an hour than in the original translations. Richards believes that technical books, income tax forms, and other generally turgid writing, can be improved through the use of Basic...
...Paramount) is a dull, none-too-faithful account of the career of Dan Emmett, author of Dixie, and one of the four Original Virginia Minstrels of 1843. Even the personality of Bing Crosby as Emmett, plus the great historic theme song, plus Technicolor, cannot enliven the picture's turgid progress through three conflagrations, too many minstrel shows leading to fame & fortune in New Orleans. When Crosby sings, fans will not be critical. But much of the time he is engaged in crude, unconvincing romances with Marjorie Reynolds and Dorothy Lamour. And most of the time the minstrelsy is just...
...Salathiel Albine with muscles "like fluid oak wood" and the movements of "a young male panther" sets the superscale that marks the whole work for good and bad. And in his eager use of sentimental aspects of the Scottish border novel, Allen is capable of sinking to turgid depths, of causing a betrayed girl to cry out passionately against her ducal seducer...
Murphy's friend, General Giraud, is a typical product of a French military system which forbids officers to vote but does not necessarily keep them out of politics. In a turgid study of the fall of France (TIME, Jan. 25), Giraud inveighed against corruption in politics, the lack of principle in business, the domination of trade unions, the collapse of home life. Like others stunned by the French retreat from greatness, Giraud tended to blame industrialization, showed no sympathy for materialistic individualism. His proposals for homespun reforms were in close sympathy with Marshal Pétain's attempts...