Sentence examples for turgid prose from inspiring English sources
turgid prose and eccentric arrangement of entries.
Mr. Kilpatrick railed against turgid prose in "The Writer's Art" (Andrews, McMeel and Parker, 1984).
They are, to be sure, a peculiarly boring breed of romantic, speaking in turgid prose rather than poetry.
In exile in the West from 1974, his gloomy philippics and increasingly turgid prose aroused more bafflement than appreciation.
More frequently a single word — "ugh!" — would signify turgid prose or some other stylistic or grammatical boo-boo.
Despite the turgid prose, the wooden dialogue, and the fact that the apes exhibit more complexity than the humans, the Tarzan novels have become a solemn cultural fixation.
He peppered his lectures with puns, rhymes and enigmatic pronouncements, like, "Thinking is what we already know that we have not yet begun," or, "Oh my friends, there is no friend" Many readers found his prose turgid and baffling, even as aficionados found it illuminating.
Not all of the pieces work: like I said, Der Nister's turgid, flowery, evocative prose is basically incomprehensible.
The main problem is unnecessarily turgid and overwrought prose.
From such turgid lust and swollen prose a perversion is born, as well as a slow-burn Velvet Underground song.
The prose turns turgid, by contrast, when he tries to work out his own feelings as if his long apprenticeship had failed to take hold.
