Word: turgidity
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...baiters are, in the Hamlin-Barbour opinion, "zoophiles," animal lovers "whose arguments are always based on sentiment and not on reason." Their accusations formed a "long and rather turgid tirade. ... It is not worth while to attempt to analyze or discuss the charges made. They are not worth the time it would take...
...Commons (both recent Prime Ministers) tried to convince the House, last week, that they had intended and longed to go to Washington while in office but were prevented by "circumstances." Brief and in comparatively good taste upon this sour-grape theme was kinetic Liberal David Lloyd George. But turgid, bumbling Conservative Stanley Baldwin was long-winded, unsporting. He congratulated Mr. MacDonald on having "taken the first moment that had been possible in recent years to make his visit. It could not have been done by any Government until the actual time he went!" Mr. Baldwin even suggested, "although...
...tterdammerung is a turgid opera by Richard Wagner, the composer to whose music most Nordics are married and buried ("Wedding March,'' ''Death March" from Lohengrin...
...Maddened by things he heard over the wire, the husband finally went out to slay the other man. This story has now been made into a sound cinema. The unseen lover appears, but to no advantage. Jeanne Eagels as the wife employs a ridiculous English accent, the action is turgid, the photo-graphs dull. Silliest shot: Frederic March taking time out to suppress his justifiable jealousy...
...both. The small element of moral fervor in the reconstruction policy of the North following the Civil War was overwhelmed by the constitution of the storm of hatred engendered by the war. Anyone who can even faintly remember the political campaigns of the post-war period with their turgid oratory and their violent editorials is aware that hatred of the South was the chief political asset of most successful candidates. The ferocious denunciation of every Democrat as a friend of rebels, the continued waving of the bloody shirt, the cartoons of Thomas H. Nast, the editorials of Petroleum V. Nasby...