Word: turgidity
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...wealth on immediate gratification and too little on investment for the future, too much on Government uses and not enough on private uses, too much on easy imports of energy from afar and not enough on hard-slogging development of energy at home. The consequences have been turgid productivity, leading to low economic growth; high budget deficits, leading to inflation; multiplying balance of payments deficits, leading to a weak dollar, which in turn reduces capital investment from abroad and holds back the expansion of jobs and real income...
...Hellman's Scoundrel Time will mislead younger readers into thinking liberal support of the House Unamerican Activities Committee was an inexcusable aberration (rather than a legitimate response to the Communist threat) with a long series of attacks on Hellman's own conduct during the '50s. In a long and turgid footnote, Trilling implies over and over that Hellman was a communist, and that HUAC was therefore completely justified in its witchhunt. The logic is shaky, at best...
...Wind to Shake the World is neither great literature nor incisive social commentary. Allen is a journalist, not a novelist, and his style makes this obvious. His prose moves fitfully at best, is downright turgid at worst, and is obviously better suited to the front page of a New England town newspaper than the inside of a classy $10 hard-back. Always the reporter, he is long on detail and short on interpretation. An endless stream of names, places, death tolls and other gruesome details flashes past, making the book itself a hurricane of facts that often leaves the reader...
...code is expected to be adopted at the next OECD conference of foreign ministers, scheduled for June 21. The question is: Will the code make any difference? The OECD has no power to enforce its injunctions. Furthermore, the code is written in such turgid bureaucratese that many of the 29 commandments are vague and imprecise...
...Oscar-winning vehicle of two years back. Like Lemmon, Reynolds is forced to reminisce fondly about the putative glories of eras past-ballplayers, bands, movies-and wrestle with a numbing dose of angst. Although Director Robert Aldrich (The Longest Yard) does all he can to enliven this turgid material with sleazy jokes, low-down sex and a little violence, he cannot manage to stifle Shagan's sermon. Aldrich is like a kid passing around a dirty magazine while the preacher drones on from the pulpit above...