Sentence examples for turgidity from inspiring English sources

Yet at the same time he is admired on the right for backing a referendum on Britain's EU membership, and as an early voice calling for the abolition of the 50% top rate of income tax seen by Mr Johnson as a disastrous symbol of hostility to wealth-creators.Yet Mr Johnson's campaign has been cautious to the point of turgidity.

Affected parts lose their turgidity and droop.

A history written by Vaṣṣāf (died 1323) is the most notorious example of turgidity, but even his style was surpassed by some later writers.

Once primitive plants began to invade the land, however, modifications for support, nutrient and water absorption, turgidity, and reproduction were required to compensate for the absence of an aqueous environment.

Furthermore, as long as there is a sufficient number of water columns left, the tree will still be able to obtain sufficient water to maintain the turgidity of its leaves.

It is composed of an association of fibres, mainly collagen, with materials known as glycosaminoglycans, which are capable of holding a large amount of water, thus maintaining the turgidity of the skin.

The expansive feel is reminiscent of latter-day Oasis, without their blank turgidity.

M Night Shyamalan must have thought he'd endured the worst reviews of his career for his 2006 movie, Lady in the Water ("This cloying piece of claptrap sets a high-water mark for pomposity, condescension, false profundity and true turgidity" – Wall Street Journal).

Almost all bacteria have an external cell wall that maintains the shape and turgidity of the cell and affords protection.

The opera is a fitfully inspired creation, wavering along the fine line between tragedy and turgidity, but, on a primal, Pucciniesque level, it hits the mark.

A few critics and others saw the show as part of a new, object-oriented wave of Pop art and, as such, a bracing alternative to the turgidities and bombasitudes of neoexpressionism.