Word: turgid
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...until the very end of the turgid sessions did Comrade Gomulka uncork his surprise: he had edged 14 of his most bitter enemies off the important 75-member Central Committee. These were the hardcore, Moscow-First group who had tried to keep Gomulka out of office in the first place, and determinedly opposed the bloodless revolution that brought Poles a measure of freedom in 1956. Gomulka also beefed up the party's nine-man Politburo by adding two of his friends to its ranks...
...first half of the program consisted of Hindemith's Symphony in E-flat, composed in 1930. This is a turgid, tense work, and it received a rather turgid, tense performance. There were some passages of technical finesse and sparkle, particularly the wind sections of the last movement; but most of it was pretty dogged. Aside from some intonation problems, the notes were faithfully gone through, showing effort but very little imagination; as a result, the big, well-scored passages sounded good, the small, thin sections were dull...
David Landon's three poems, all partaking of the dominant love motif, are slightly more complex. The best, "Quattrocento," is cleverly constructed and involves some striking visual imagery. "Beneath a Sky" is not as well developed as the others: its images are forced, its phrases turgid, and the adjective "fishy-stinking" is enough to make any reader stop right there...
...course a great writer in good form can make much meaning of scanty material. But O'Casey rather plainly hasn't, in this particular instance, and the Charles Playhouse fights a vain battle in trying to elicit dramatic tension from a turgid situation that O'Casey has told in a talky...
...uneasy stirrings of Afro-Asian self-determination cast a harsh glare on the turgid cataract of independence and democracy, per se, as they sink their roots ever deeper into the rich brown soil of the ancient Fertile Crescent, that strife-ridden slice of the mordacious Middle East which includes the Bedouins of Syria, the Riffs of Jordan, the fiercely patriotic people of brave little Israel, the Nomads of the Saudi-Arabian wastelands, the oil-rich sheiks of Kuwait and the curvaceous cuties of the Cairo Casbah, not to mention the nubile Nubians of the nether Nile, the nemesis of Nasser...