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Indeed, the scholarly journals have been overflowing with turgid prose for decades, and it is particularly refreshing to know that comment on virtually any aspect of language can still be offered in language that, glowing with respectability, cleaving to the well-turned phrase, punctuated by the provocative pun, can be so engagingly presented.
While he certainly can be eccentric, solipsistic, and turgid, at his best moments West is shrewd, courageous, and inspirational.
It's a turgid welter of pornography (the rudest schoolboy kind) & uninformed & unimportant drivel.
The Libyan leader's new Escape to Hell and Other Stories rants at a fictional land called "Amelica" in prose that is "turgid."
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.