Turgid

Turgid and detached - homework masquerading as epic.

Inés of My Soul by Isabel Allende: Book summary 2010

Turgid, poorly written, and when the fifth conspiracy theory was introduced and dismissed on the same page as the previous four, my brain started to leak out of my ear.

Dan Brown: How Does He Do It? - by Joanna Penn | The Creative Penn 2009

Turgid sex-writing contest in honor of Bill O'Reilly

Boing Boing: January 11, 2004 - January 17, 2004 Archives 2004

As far as I can tell, that person would get an endowed chair and go on to write prose so chuckleheaded that it wins the Turgid N.

Archive 2004-07-01 2004

As far as I can tell, that person would get an endowed chair and go on to write prose so chuckleheaded that it wins the Turgid N.

Pilgrim's Egress II 2004

Turgid prose, but eventually the story itself carries the day.

languagehat.com: MORE BAD WRITING. 2004

Turgid obscurity is the general character of the composition, with now and then a gleam of genuine poetry, irradiating the dark profound.

Early Reviews of English Poets John Louis Haney

Turgid darkness was coming to the wrecked room, with little hissing flares spitting through it.

Wandl the Invader Ray Cummings 1922

Turgid Talmage must likewise unload; Talmage, who presumes to teach not only theology but political economy; who interlards his sermons with strange visions of Heaven, dreams of Hell, and still more wonderful hints on how to make a people terrestrially prosperous.

The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 1. 1898

Turgid rhetoric I call it, empty bombast, the wind of platitudes; sound and fury, signifying nothing, It was shameful, it was infamous, it was a perfect scandal!

Gathering Clouds: A Tale of the Days of St. Chrysostom 1831-1903 1895