Word: turgidity
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...support Ionesco's theme except on a purely historical level, and although history has universal appeal, Ionesco's themes are tortured by the spirit of what the Germans call "Trummerliteratur," or "The Literature of Ruins." The subject is specific and dated, the tone relentlessly grim and the dialogue turgid and frenetic, desperately trying to solve a psychological puzzle that perhaps has no answer...
Liat Kaplan's direction creates a slick synchronicity between characters, keeping the emotion at a dramatic rather than melodramatic level. In places, this results in woodenness, but it is kept to a minimum even in the potentially static second and third acts. Even in the most turgid moments of the plot the emphasis on appropriateness and refinement does not give way to the hackneyed and postured acting that has labeled opera in the minds of many as a dramatic dead...
...singularly lacking in charm. Filipacchi's labored prose fails to update the idiom. There are no signal insights; little that is fresh or new. Filipacchi transforms what could have been a fascinating treatment of dealing with the consequences of dark, neurotic visions and succumbing to temptations into a turgid mess...
...issue that Lani Guinier attacks in her writings -- the tyranny of the majority, as James Madison described it -- is neither obscure nor an unworthy target. But it's small wonder that few people are familiar with her scholarship. Turgid and ambiguous, Guinier's writing is not the stuff of bedtime reading. A case in point is her 48,948-word article in the Michigan Law Review of March 1991, titled "The Triumph of Tokenism," which Clinton singled out last week in explaining why he was withdrawing her nomination. "Many of her analyses I agree with," he said, but he dismissed...
Bysshe (Christopher Shea) and Byron (Jonathan Rigby) meet for the first time in the summer of 1816. Emigres to Switzerland, they seek an escape from "the turgid cesspool" of England. Still a young idealist, Bysshe is slightly in awe of the older, cynical Lord Byron, already world-weary at the age of 28. Bysshe believes he can transform the world with words. But his growing disillusionment with this possibility torments...