Word: turgidity
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...author's career at Radcliffe was indeed a trying period--she still seems tense over it. Unfortunately, she assumes that her life here was typical, and that is doubtful indeed. Most 'Cliffies are not morally bullied by dead Puritan ghosts. Few girls I know make "turgid references" to the "totality of experience," nor do many sing themselves "to near collapse" over Bach. Radcliffe is not a four-year trauma for everybody, nor, as Miss Sayres claims, do "even the gentlest girls have turbulent private lives...
Such last week was the setting for Communism's most serious public rift since Tito's defection from Moscow. Instead of turgid rhetoric, there were revelations about Communism's recent past that rivaled the purge trials of the 1930's. Instead of parrotlike unity, there was the thrust of conflict between Red China and the Soviet Union. With typical Communist indirection, Moscow and Peking used tiny, insignificant Albania as the symbol of the quarrel and as their ideological whipping...
...suggesting that The End of It might be just another attempt to ring the bell of Adano with a ballpoint pen. But he has collected his material with all the thorough absorption of a Walter Lord assembling data on the voyage of the Titanic, and after a turgid beginning in which the book nearly founders in the rhetoric of Why and Wherefore, he writes closely and often superbly, offering on the side a fascinating lesson in tactical warfare...
...improvement, on education, not on testing, as with the single term paper. Knowing that each paper will not count so heavily in terms of a grade, the student is encouraged to write more daringly and imaginatively. He has the chance, also, to purge his writing of that turgid idiom, Scholar-speak, a variant of English considerably less clear and lucid than Time-style...
...nuclear war that would wipe out Italy and Britain (where the U.S. has missile bases) if the West attempted to preserve its access to Berlin by force. But he also announced blandly that war over Berlin was unlikely, noted that negotiations were "opportune and possible." In a turgid, 15-page answer to the July 17 U.S. note on Berlin, Khrushchev again expressed a willingness to sit down and talk about a German peace treaty. The message, significantly enough, omitted his previous threat to sign a treaty with East Germany alone...