Word: turgidly
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...problem with Fenton's score, Goldenthal found, was that it mirrored the tempo of the movie: slow, almost turgid. Like Elmer Bernstein, who enlivened the ponderous exodus of the Israelites in Cecil B. DeMille's The 10 Commandments with quick, sprightly march music, Goldenthal sought to spice up Jordan's dour vision of vampirism with a sprinkle of harpsichord here, a dash of rock there. "The performances were very slow and metered," he says. "Brad Pitt's delivery was whispery. What the music needed was horseplay, fire; I took any chance I had to get quick music in there...
Having quelled a jury mutiny and narrowly averted a mistrial, Judge Lance Ito took heed of complaints about the turgid pace of the O.J. Simpson murder trial. Ito told attorneys to speed up their questioning, tossed out some obstreperous spectators and even said the lunch break would be shortened. Testimony was largely taken up by the defense's exhaustive efforts to show that a police criminalist was both incompetent and an integral player in a complex police conspiracy against Simpson...
Barbra attempted to set her example, but she ended up looking like a flaccid puppet sustained by her brilliantly turgid teleprompter. Michelle Pfeiffer babbled for a while and told us that she tries to choose roles responsibly as an artist: sleeping with a hairy animal and meowing as a cartoon dominatrix seemed, to her mind, to fit the bill...
Ironically, he instead relies primarily on the Harvard folklore surrounding the Folklore department. I could just as easily deride the Philosophy department for studying turgid and archaic prose which may have been applicable centuries ago but has lost meaning in the modern world. But that would display a juvenile understanding of the subject...
...dilettante could see that they played better, with more control, even though this dilettante couldn't find excuse enough to use such sportswriterly terms as teutonic wedge and the like. (Had the gents from 3,660-m-high La Paz triumphed, I had worked up a sportsy, turgid sentence along the lines of "driven by the lungs of mighty Wurlitzers...