Sentence examples for turgid speeches from inspiring English sources
The phrase "turgid speeches" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe speeches that are overly complex, pompous, or inflated in style, often to the point of being dull or difficult to understand. Example: "The politician's turgid speeches failed to resonate with the audience, leaving many feeling bored and disengaged."
In his more agitated and turgid speeches, Hickey tells us about how he infected Evelyn with a sexually transmitted disease, but she forgave him, and how Evelyn's love drove him to kill her.
It was the opening night of a film festival and, after some turgid speeches, guests gathered under the stars to watch a biopic of Patrice Lumumba, the Congolese independence fighter who overthrew a brutal and despotic regime.
But Wright's book is swollen and stilted, four hundred pages of stagy set pieces and turgid speeches, and although its moral rage has an undeniable force, it also demonstrates a high-handed disregard for the business of ordinary existence.
These subjects are worth probing (and a cameo appearance by Oscar Wilde anticipates the ideological land mines that lie ahead), but not in turgid speeches and static drawing-room scenes that confine the conflict to the upper classes and drain the life from the story.
Although he published several volumes of turgid speeches, it is difficult to discern any coherent ideology - other than an obscurantist desire to uphold what he termed "Helleno-Christian civilisation", the preservation of traditional Greek values against corruption by secular, western influences.
The young debater was roughly escorted out by security, and after some turgid speeches from other panellists, the Mogg took to the stage.
In his trial summation, six minutes of Gary Cooper giving a completely unhinged, turgid speech, he actually says, "The world is perishing in an orgy of self-sacrifice." Whatever finishes off mankind, it won't be an excess of self-sacrifice.
There were fewer turgid official speeches, more snazzy seminars and even an outdoor café for visiting nobs to chat in the unseasonably warm weather.
His speeches had been turgid, his delivery wooden.
Turgid as it was, his speech moved the gentlemen of the school board.
The biblical cadences of Jackson's and Lee's speeches are augmented by a turgid, Americana-flavored score (by John Frizzell and Randy Edelman) that plays almost continuously throughout the movie.
