Word: turgidity
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...Left is that the world is in the midst of profound cultural and political changes and that the church should make sure that whatever society emerges is Christian in tone and outlook. To a man, its adherents admit to being followers of Karl Marx-not, they explain, the turgid economist of Das Kapital, but the youthful, philosophical Marx who protested against man's alienation in a dehumanized industrial society...
Generally, Catholic educators have relied on religious texts based on the 1884 Baltimore Catechism - a turgid compendium of factual questions and answers that the student was expected to learn by role. Last week the Paulist fathers introduced a new catechism that puts dogma in language that children, rather than theologians, can understand. More important, it tries to relate the student's intuition of the divine to his own youthful experience...
...would you believe Joe Masteroff, John Kandor, and Fred Ebb? These three are responsible for the book, music, and lyrics to Cabaret, in which Miss Lenya struggles through turgid material of a sort usually left to the likes of Molly Picon...
CAPABLE OF HONOR, by Allen Drury. Drury's style is often turgid, but his reportorial eye is in keen focus in this novel about chicanery in high places...
CAPABLE OF HONOR, by Allen Drury. Drury's fictional sense is often turgid, but his reportorial eye is in fine focus in this novel about chicanery in high places...