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My prose is turgid, it just hasn't got any energy. -- Carol Ann Duffy
The political scene is already so turgid, it doesn't need more of that from me. -- William Shatner
The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms. -- James F. Cooper
The fact that the talk may be boring or turgid or uninspiring should not cause us to forget the fact that it is preferable to war. -- Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.
A common defense among obituary-fanciers such as myself is that the obit is not about death at all. It is about life. This is true since an article about the condition of deadness would make for turgid reading at best. -- Tom Rachman
My prose is turgid, it just hasn't got any energy -- Carol Ann Duffy
Forms of expression always appear turgid to those who do not share the emotions they represent. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Rebel children, I urge you, fight the turgid slick of conformity with which they seek to smother your glory. -- Russell Brand
Some have a violent and turgid manner of talking and thinking; they are always in extremes, and pronounce concerning everything in the superlative. -- Isaac Watts
Prune what is turgid, elevate what is commonplace, arrange what is disorderly, introduce rhythm where the language is harsh, modify where it is too absolute. -- Quintilian
The writing you allude to is a form of dissent, but it's also expressive of the need to evolve beyond what is turgid and stale in contemporary fiction. -- Rachel Cusk
For some strange reason we don't go to charming, light movies anymore. People expect a movie to be heavy and turgid, like "American Beauty." We've become a heavy-handed society. -- Pauline Kael
Heresy is usually quite sophisticated, actually has a meaning, and is to be taken very seriously. It is therefore to be carefully distinguished from turgid, pretentious, badly-written Bullsgeshichte, to use the technical German theological term. -- Carl R. Trueman
Heresy is usually quite sophisticated, actually has a meaning, and is to be taken very seriously. It is therefore to be carefully distinguished from turgid, pretentious, badly-written Bullsgeshichte, to use the technical German theological term. -- Carl R. Trueman

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