Word: turgidness
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...participants-demonstrators and police alike." The Walker study explains that the "extremely obscene language was a contributing factor to the violence" and "its frequency and intensity were such that to omit it would inevitably understate the effect it had." Since the report is otherwise couched largely in the turgid prose common to bureaucracy, the insertion of so many pungent Anglo-Saxon expletives relating to or synonymous with copulation creates a surrealistic effect...
...GLASS BOOTH. Actor-Author Robert Shaw introduces some precarious psychologizing and implausible "what-if" elements to an Eichmann-like situation in a rerun of the victimization of the Jews and Nazi guilt. Donald Pleasence enlivens an otherwise turgid evening with a memorable performance...
Then, a few years ago, the paper began to wilt. The exposes became rarer, the style more turgid. Weary of the 40,000-word weekly grind, Dugger turned to more leisurely writing, including a soon-to-be-published book about Lyndon Johnson. His most gifted cronies took off in other literary directions. Robert Sherrill baited the occupant of the White House with The Accidental President and Gothic Politics in the Deep South. Larry King began a successful career as a freelance writer and gadfly. Perhaps the greatest loss was Morris, who headed for New York in 1963, wrote North Toward...
This time, however, the plot was rather more turgid. For one thing, if the Administration was anxious to portray U.S. Steel as a model of industrial statesmanship, the company did not care for the role. U.S. Steel made it clear that its price increases fell far short of covering the cost of the 6% labor wage-and-benefit package negotiated last month, warned that other price changes would be coming from time to time. Aiming a lance at the White House, the company said it was "almost, but not quite universally recognized" that steel prices do not cause inflation, insisted...
Meanwhile, the platform committee, under the direction of Sen. Everett Dirksen, is drafting what one member admitted would be a document cloaked in ambiguity, vagueness and turgid prose. Platforms tend to be like that: in 1932, for example, both parties had almost identical platforms, although their candidates differed markedly on the issues...