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“Mostly I remembered the dense prose, and a sense of what...turgidity, if that is a word?”
“The next post in this blog is The hurled turgidity.”
“The previous post in this blog was The hurled turgidity.”
Where are the regulator types when you need them? (Jack Bog's Blog)
“And though the prose occasionally lapses into turgidity … these overwrought moments are more than made up for by the many gorgeous ones.”
The Lazarus Project: Summary and book reviews of The Lazarus Project by Aleksandar Hemon.
“When, for the first time in his life Jake can't get an erection, Maggie wastes no time taunting the Viagra salesman back to a truly tantalizing state of tumescence and turgidity.”
The Huffington Post: George Heymont: What's Love Got To Do With It? (VIDEOS)
“I was desperately hoping one of the cast members would uncap the little nipple on her back and re-inflate her to full functional turgidity, but it never happened and she continued to flop and flail her way through the entire show.”
“This marginalising of the bovine community must be countered by humanity acknowledging its own culpability in the over-production of methane; I am looking forward to our bishops taking the lead in repenting of their unrelenting turgidity.”
The Anglican Church of Canada and gaseous emissions « Anglican Samizdat
“EDIT: It looks like Quicksilver is so long that they had to split it into three parts to capture the full turgidity in paperback format.”
“The evil that men do lives after them, in Lytton's case in 27 novels whose perfervid turgidity I intend to expose, denude, and generally make visible.”
“It doesn't distinguish whether the writer has let one character run away with the story, or let flowery prose mask shallow characterisation, or spent so much wordage on describing the world that the pace of the book slows down to utter turgidity.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘turgidity’.
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-dity
absurdity, acidity, acridity, algidity, aridity, bifidity, calidity, commodity, crudity, discommodity, facundity, fecundity and 93 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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Consider the Lobster
By David Foster Wallace
percussive, discursive, lugubrious, docent, assiduously, berm, wag, bonmot, imbroglio, telegraph, fissile, rube and 220 more...
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Collage's Words
subtle, calamity, impale, qat, painterly, piebald, surly, nihilistic, repine, slake, larder, sepulchre and 349 more...
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My favourite english words
subjacent, invidious, virtu, overt, quadrangle, deliciously, antithetical, soporific, flummery, amusia, cakewalk, congruence and 65 more...
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bilby "The canvas swarms with actualities—plowing, planting, harvesting, sheep-herding, merry-making, rabbit-killing, love, labor, birth, death. Intimately involved with the hard, sordid strife of daily affairs are fine, if not always quite realized, phases of poetry and faith. The style, though tending always to turgidity, is strong and full; the movement, though at times nervous, is rapid; the pictures, though perhaps excessively panoramic, are always richly alive."
- Carl Van Doren, 'The American Novel'. Sep 20, 2009