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39 examples of Turgid in a sentence

In more turgid prose, but closer to the truth, was the father of modern capitalism, Adam Smith, and he said this.
What a tedious turgid boring mess.
I tried to read this dull and very turgid novel years ago, but was unable to finish it.
What is left is a turgid melodrama which takes an age to get started and even longer to finish.
All of this would be almost acceptable if this movie was not a turgid, boring chore to sit through.
The dialogue is turgid.
In fact, aside from the above mentioned cameos this entire movie is really quite stale and turgid with characters that couldn't get offed quick enough for my liking and an unfortunate lack of any real interest.
Comparing this incompetent, turgid, humorless mess to "Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid" is like saying that "Gigli" is like "Citizen Kane".
A real let down, the novel is such a brilliant stomach churning journey into madness but this made for TV movie style nonsense is turgid and painfully slow.
Alas, the script is deliberately turgid and sordid, and the overall effect leaves one with a downcast spirit.
Plenty of 'right-on' artistry for small, small audiences but enough well-connected backslapping to ensure future commissions for turgid playrights.
Even the occasional good performances (Antony, Rufus' first number, Martha's The Traitor) are spoiled by the context of the rest of this turgid blabla.
Another turgid action/adventure flick from the Quinn Martin Productions factory.
The turgid pace of this movie numbs us to any shocks that it might provide.
Instead it's just turgid, dull, and routine.
The picture is balky with turgid sequences, a wobbly narrative and confusing editing (always slanted to point up the artistic excesses).
Everything shouts 'amateur', from the crumby script (bizarre premises, limited coherence and predictable endings; the turgid lighting, sound and hand-held wobbly camera angles; the coy and passe sexual inneundo and references; the patchy and unbelievable dialgoue to the Z rate acting.
I can hardly believe that this inert, turgid and badly staged film is by a filmmaker whose other works I've quite enjoyed.
This gloriously turgid melodrama represents Douglas Sirk at his most high strung.
I was prepared for a turgid talky soap opera cum travelogue, but was pleased to find a fast-paced script, an underlying moral, excellent portrayals from all the actors, especially Peter Finch, amazing special effects, suspense, and beautiful cinematography--there's even a shot of the majestic stone Buddhas recently destroyed by the Taliban.
Anyone who has already seen a Herschell Gordon Lewis film will probably know more or less what to expect from this one; bad acting, terrible production values, a turgid script etc etc.
What is it about this turgid piece of rubbish that attracts such high praise?
This is a turgid melodrama, very loosely based on a Maugham story and designed to appeal to people during the Second World War.
This turgid celluloid clunker is something I will soon forget.
Almost all of Hitchcock's films in the 1940's were masterpieces --- except for this turgid potboiler.
Nobody in the public asked for this film to be made and when released in 3 cinemas... none of which were in the western suburbs because the distributor knew already nobody West would see it... it was a compete financial failure again again again wasting public taxpayer funds which were spent 'creating' this turgid drivel..
One of the greatest casts ever assembled help this, otherwise turgid, melodrama to chug along for over two and a half hours, (three, if you are unlucky enough to catch the US video version), but they still can't manage to lift it above the level of a second rate television movie.
The script serves as an age-biased loaf of stale bitterness regarding ageism, to which any dodgy Benny Hill-script seems vital and fresh; the characters are archetypical in the worst sense of the word, the story never brings anything interesting or lucid to the screen, and there are more chances of you being hit by lightning while reading this than there are comedic lines found in this vapid, turgid and fake implausibility; collect a billion monkeys, tie them to typewriters and I shall pay you 1000 US Dollars if even one of them should come up with anything less comprehensible.
After a sprightly animated credits sequence, and the potentially interesting caviat that retired persons need to be stimulated by worthwhile adventures (even going so far as to become "expendable" for their services), this turgid tale fails to give us any undercover excitement.
No wonder Flynn drank his way through this turgid Western.