Word: turgidity
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...FRANCISCO, July 13--Thousands of delegates, alternates, and visitors at the 28th Republican National Convention made the six-mile trip to the Cow Palace today to listen to a full bill of bounteous and turgid oratory. An obvious disinterest pervaded the opening session of the convention...
Legaldygook. Such presumptuousness would appall other professions, and some lawyers pooh-pooh the whole idea. The average law review, scoffs Yale's iconoclastic Law Professor Fred Rodell, "sounds like a 33-r.p.m. disk played at 78," a cacophony of "turgid, legaldy-gooky garbage." Nonetheless, law reviews-most notably those published by Chicago, Columbia, Harvard, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Stanford and Yale-are more influential than ever. A law-review job shapes a man's entire later life. Usually tapped at the end of freshman year, recruits are chosen by the outgoing editorial staff purely on the basis of class rank...
...very glad that I had this experience for it has taught me to understand homosexuals a little better. It has also taught me why Freud was so fond of quoting the old proverb, 'Nothing human is alien to me.' "Before Weston finishes, he manages to construe a few more turgid moralisms for readers in the "square world...
Arevalo's writing is turgid, and his often-undocumented charges still become tiring. The real truth about Latin America is not so apparent
Arevalo's writing is turgid, and his often-undocumented charges still become tiring. The real truth about Latin America is not so apparent