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But by the end of his life Kubrick had little stretch left: He didn't extend himself to fit his material, he contracted his material to fit his turgid tempos.
To a subject that is treated in the most turgid fashion by linguists and with unusually irresponsible scholarship by many other commentators, Bill Safire brings just the right, literate, human touch, often funny, ever lively, and always friendly, informative, and entertaining.
There is much to interest and amuse the reader in Mother Tongue , and I find it a pity that teachers do not use books like this to introduce students to the wonders and humor of language to reinforce what I hope is their own enthusiasm for the subject in place of the turgid texts they are stuck with.
For one thing, LawGuy's answers were clear and prompt, while the actual lawyers' answers could be turgid, filled with statutory language, including formal citations, sometimes posted long after the question appeared.
The Libyan leader's new Escape to Hell and Other Stories rants at a fictional land called "Amelica" in prose that is "turgid."