Word: turgidity
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...murmuring Cures the diseases of men, blows away the stupor of the wine, Sharpens sight and hearing, and refreshes the body . . . The Woman's Wind, the common people's wind, rises from the streets And narrow lanes, carrying clouds of dust . . . Now this wind is heavy and turgid, oppressing man's heart. It brings fever to his body, ulcers to his lips, and dimness to his eyes. It shakes him with coughing; it kills him before his time. To our Los Angeles Woman Wind, we resign ourselves...
...Arabs in revolt against their Turkish oppressors, was just the kind of lonely, romantic figure of danger the British needed in World War I to offset the unrelieved, anonymous four-year horror of the Western Front. His saga became legend. Hailed by many as a masterpiece, his own monumental, turgid and mystic Seven Pillars of Wisdom became the bible of a widespread cult of Lawrence admirers, whose most romantic ideals were justified when their unpredictable hero renounced the world at the pinnacle of his fame to join the R.A.F. as lowly Aircraftman Ross...
This year, however, the University has failed to produce those upheavals which lend themselves to the turgid word and the stuffy phrase. One could, perhaps, be pompous about the No Liquor at Football Games rule; we have been, as a matter of fact. But it is easier at this point to admit candidly that 1954-55 has been a year of inconsequentialities and review it with that in mind...
...clarify the complex yet essentially conventional form, he began crescendi long in advance of their final culminations. Thus a sense of gathering sonority and mass brought the structure more clearly into focus. And by avoiding the extremely show tempi some conductors favor, he made overall textures far less turgid...
...Henry W. Fowler's Modern English Usage, Britons never coined the verb "to fowlerize." But in official circles, at least, they are beginning to use "to gowerize." Its source is leathery Sir Ernest Cowers, 74, a retired civil servant who has been waging a relentless war against the turgid prose called officialese. Last week, from Sir Ernest's new book, The Complete Plain Words (Her Majesty's Stationery Office), thousands of readers both in and out of the service were learning what gowerizing is all about-"to say what you mean in simple words instead of words...