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pressure. The pressure exerted by the osmotic flow of water is called turgidity. It is caused by the osmotic flow of water through a selectively permeable...

Plasmolysis is the process in which cells lose water in a hypertonic solution. The reverse process, deplasmolysis or cytolysis, can occur if the cell is...

Review: Nicole Kidman Plays Yet Another Miserable Rich Lady in Netflix's Turgid Murder Mystery". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on 5...

Cladonia turgida or the crazy-scale cup lichen is a species of cup lichen in the family Cladoniaceae. Cladonia turgida contains atranorin and fumarprotocetraric...

to this or any lower point a plant wilts and can no longer recover its turgidity when placed in a saturated atmosphere for 12 hours. The physical definition...

Epioblasma turgidula, the turgid blossom pearly mussel, turgid riffle shell, turgid-blossom naiad or turgid blossom, was a species of freshwater mussel...

of states of sea: its hydrostatic quiescence in calm: its hydrokinetic turgidity in neap and spring tides: its subsidence after devastation: its sterility...

rattle; the drums don't propel as much as struggle to disguise an all-too-turgid pace; and the rage is both unfocused and leavened with too much narcissistic...

persistent inability of the glans penis to achieve and maintain an erect or turgid state during sexual arousal, remaining soft and cold. This condition can...

also praising DiCaprio, wrote, "It's too bad J. Edgar is so shapeless and turgid and ham-handed, so rich in bad lines and worse readings." Eastwood starred...

might gratify me and delight me with all that they think and do – what a turgid life that would be. I've been offended all of my life, and it has strengthened...

offended by its content, some of which was described as "'unreadable', 'turgid', 'overwritten', and in parts 'obscene'". No Pulitzer Prize was awarded...

enjoyed Depp's performance. Mark Kermode described the film as "a triumph of turgid theme-park hackery over the art of cinema". In 2025, it was one of the films...

lies only in the things; and when they are not so, the language may be turgid, affected, metaphorical, but not affecting." The word eloquence itself derives...

joy". The Washington Post's Ann Hornaday stated that with "Hans Zimmer's turgid, over-produced score", the film "is an exceptionally unpleasant viewing...

18, 2018. Sarris, Andrew (July 26, 1999). "Eyes Don't Have It: Kubrick Turgid Finale". The New York Observer. Archived from the original on February 19...

Cannes Film Festival to generally negative reviews. Variety called it "a turgid and unbelievable neo-western", and Time Out wrote that "besides the implausibilities...

fling." Christopher Tookey says "It is hard to see why this incredibly turgid, cliche-ridden, melodramatic film garnered the critical acclaim it did."...

the Dallas Observer, Robert Wilonsky wrote that he found the film "too turgid to awe the nonbelievers, too zealous to inspire and often too silly to take...

7, 2025). "The Electric State review — Millie Bobby Brown founders in a turgid eyesore". The Sunday Times. Retrieved March 16, 2025.{{cite news}}: CS1...

and having no way to drain out, fills the venous spaces until they become turgid and engorged with blood. This is what leads to clitoral erection. The prepuce...

elocutionists. Euripides in the Hippolytus makes Theseus speak of the "turgid outpourings of many treatises", which have led his son to follow Orpheus...

strikes a poetic note worthy of its historical muse, it more often plays as turgidly overblown melodrama". Sophie Monks Kaufman of IndieWire gave the film an...

with "no discernible talent" (in the novel, Bloom's own work is called "turgid"). In a 2000 review of Wallace's work to date, A. O. Scott wrote in The...

weakest film in Grable's oevure, owing mostly to its mundane screenplay and turgid, uninspired, staging." In the 19th century, Molly Larkins, the girlfriend...

frequently inexact and contains too many anglicisms. Her style is awkward and turgid, very unsuitable for Tolstoi." On the Maudes' translation she comments:...

this leaf cover absorbs water rapidly, becoming turgid and pale green. The shape and colour of the turgid leaves show that the species is a window plant:...

endeavor from the start." The BBC's Mark Kermode described the film as "turgid and bloated," further deeming the director's cut "uniformly boring as opposed...

Review: Nicole Kidman Plays Yet Another Miserable Rich Lady in Netflix's Turgid Murder Mystery". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on September...

Contest. Rice accused Bulwer-Lytton of writing "27 novels whose perfervid turgidity I intend to expose, denude, and generally make visible." Lytton Cobbold...

topics. Automatic for the People dealt with "mortality and dying. Pretty turgid stuff", according to Stipe, while Monster critiqued love and mass culture...

Pulitzer board vetoed the recommendation, calling the novel "unreadable", "turgid", "overwritten", and in parts "obscene". No Pulitzer Prize for Fiction was...

later with the unmistakable hostility of a knife to the gut," and that "its turgid symphony of unexpected cameos, mournful cello solos, and implied sexual...

"voluminous lungs" and in 1769 by Giovanni Morgagni of lungs which were "turgid particularly from air". In 1721, the first drawings of emphysema were made...

Baroque period, working in Venice. His style gravitated over the years from a turgid and academic weightiness to a lighter, looser brushstroke. Celesti was born...

it more rooty-tooty; just lift the key because it was starting to sound turgid." Martin, Emerick and Richard Lush made the sped-up remix from take four...

at least, energize the film some way or another. The tone is often just turgid ... Yet, for all its problems, the film is often sincere, often earnest ...

osmotic pressure decreases. When a cell is fully turgid, its OP is equal to TP and DPD is zero. Turgid cells cannot absorb any more water. Thus, with reference...

Cox concurs with this point, stating that The Devils "could have been a turgid tale of human rights versus intolerance", but instead became something "much...

2024). "K-drama Queen Woo Part I review: Jeon Jong-seo, Ji Chang-wook in turgid period drama". South China Morning Post. Archived from the original on August...

the feeling, there exists only the urge of the spirit of nature, the turgidity of immediacy. On the other hand, if feeling is lacking, there remains...

comic is the phrase Eat flaming death, supposedly derived from a famously turgid line in a World War II-era anti-Nazi propaganda comic that ran “Eat flaming...

Porter awarded the film their "turkey" rating and criticized it for its "turgid direction" and "contrived plot". Leslie Halliwell also panned the film as...

asleep in the embrace of the Liberal Party; 'querulous', 'doddery' and 'turgid' are some of the epithets applied by other journalists. It is inevitably...

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millimeters long and densely overlapping, which gives the shoots a swollen, turgid appearance. It is visually similar to the circumboreal ribbed bog moss (Aulacomnium...

stars and wrote, "A cast of stars proves unable to lift this derivative, turgid terrorism thriller." Released under Lionsgate Premiere and Grindstone Entertainment...

is reduced. The eggs themselves come out abnormal, fragile and lacking turgidity, and the lower the pH, the less likely the eggs are to eventually hatch...

Hydraulic brakes Artesian well Blood pressure Hydraulic head Plant cell turgidity Pythagorean cup Pressure washing Explosion or deflagration pressures are...

position in the water using buoyancy typically from gas filled lacunaa or turgid aerenchyma cells. When removed from the water, such plants are typically...

worst films over the last 10 years. David Rooney of Variety called it: "A turgid erotic thriller that plays like Zalman King-meets-vintage Brian De Palma...

update on the erotic thriller formula will be sorely disappointed by this turgid incarnation, hobbled by stale plotting and a curious lack of sensuality...

controlling the folding and unfolding of the leaf. What is observed is that the turgidity of the bulliform cells often coincide with the folding activity, though...

the primacy of desire's social investments over its familial ones: "the turgid little boy has already plugged a desiring-machine into a social machine...

coastal habitats, retaining water and nutrients in its slightly thickened, turgid leaves. However, genetic analysis is consistent with feral origin of this...

osmotic pressure, water diffuses into the cell, and the cell often appears turgid, or bloated. For cells without a cell wall such as animal cells, if the...

London called it "sapping and unbelievable melodrama ... an unforgivably turgid lecture about political correctness." American Film Institute Award for...

more detailed physical attributes than overall size (e.g. round, sharp, turgid, thin) Colour – adjectives denoting colour or pattern (e.g. white, black...

dialogue and humor. He concluded: "We're left with something gorgeous, turgid, and emotionally impenetrable – less a movie, more an Imax screensaver."...

month. His rare talent and appealing personality even shine through this turgid melodrama." Bosley Crowther, writing in The New York Times, described Rebel...

"All done during the debacle that is Brexit and the rise and fall of the turgid Trump episode in the US. These songs reflect my take on the whole sorry...

fatalism (Hobbes, Molinos, Spinoza, Hegel). Themes of the empty and the turgid included the Middle Ages, imitation, tedium, the novel, narcotics, Alexander...

certain, the author's major intentions. Out of Dreiser's often murky and turgid tale of the Twenties—now the present—the stream of words in "An American...

coelom and the radial water canal. In addition, the pressure creates a turgidity that physically supports the regenerate's shape until skeleton and muscle...

New York Times called it "a beautifully mounted film" with "a curiously turgid and uneven attempt to generate a war romance". Crowther wrote, "It is not...

Schwarzbaum of Entertainment Weekly, gave it a "D" rating and called it a "turgid and lifeless movie adaptation", opining that "those who have read Gabriel...

writing on Lister's student cohort in 2007 described some of his essays as "turgid". In 2013, Worboys revisited Lister's writing, by examing it from three...

fruits get the typical variety colour, remaining turgid, suitable for oil extraction. 9: Senescence 92 Overripe: fruits lose turgidity and start to fall....

Finnerty, Mike (29 October 2023). "Ballina Stephenites pip Breaffy in turgid Mayo decider". RTÉ. Retrieved 2 December 2023. Gannon, Colm (30 October...

upon a pointless, trashy yarn, and the best that he has accomplished is a turgid pictorial grotesque...he tried to bluff it with a very poor script—and failed...

shrinking, similarly in hypotonic solution, bacteria undergoes plasmotysis or turgid state. This plasmolysis and plasmotysis kills bacteria because it causes...

reception of the album has tended to focus on its thematic bleakness and the turgid noisiness of its instrumentation. Like the three albums often referred to...

to socialism's negative reputation among many more conventional people. Turgid language. Those who pepper their sentences with "notwithstandings" and "heretofores"...

to its "predictable, abbreviated campaign". He described the story as "turgid", with the player's suspension of disbelief "derailed" by "cornball villains"...

is that the bunch of newcomers put in some exuberance into the otherwise turgid film." There was almost universal praise for the music of the film by debutant...

Scream lands about halfway between the pretty-good 2018 Halloween and the turgid follow-up Halloween Kills." Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian gave the film...

game a D−: "Welcome to 'Hollywired', where you play turgid, half-baked videogame adaptations of turgid, half-baked movies. About the only interesting thing...

the cytoplasm, water moves into the cell and the cell swells to become turgid. Osmosis also plays a vital role in human cells by facilitating the movement...

According to Tudor, that style could "degenerate into almost incomprehensible turgidity", but his desire for detail and capacity for close observation made him...

topics. Automatic for the People dealt with "mortality and dying. Pretty turgid stuff," according to Stipe; Monster, meanwhile, critiqued love and mass...

Houghton Mifflin Books 1986, S. 50. "Here was the new Koran of faith and war: turgid, verbose, shapeless, but pregnant with its message." Steiner, George (1991)...

2019). "The Art of Racing in the Rain review: Dog's life is a formula for a turgid tearjerker". Evening Standard. Retrieved April 11, 2020. "Review: Dog tale...

mulling more anxiously than any one else." Crowther wrote that the film "turgidly unfolds on the screen", and is "one of the bulkiest blunders to come out...

without detractors; critic S. T. Joshi has said the workshop can encourage a "turgid [and] clotted" prose style. Robert Penn Warren, 1947 Pulitzer for All the...

and pretentious" and characterized Vidor's work as a "vast succession of turgid scenes". While The Fountainhead opened to negative reviews upon initial...

the final film, Anna Murdoch of The Age called Baxter's introductions "turgid". Last Breakfast in Paradise by Meg Stewart Out of It by Ken Cameron The...

with fake hair saying silly things ..." and "a self-important director's turgid attempts to make grand statements about America." Nicolas Cage said Kilmer...

the movie from dragging." Arthur D. Murphy of Variety panned the film as "turgid melodrama at its worst ... Considering the vast carnage, it is a measure...

with an average rating of 3.92/10. Guy Lodge of Variety called the film a "turgid, tension-free revenge thriller". "Screenwriting Interview: Joseph Gangemi"...

PlayStation 3 version a score of two out of ten, saying, "Basic combat is dismal, turgid stuff, yet accounts for almost all the action." In Japan, however, Famitsu...

one of the characters on the show itself described the storyline as "a turgid supernatural soap opera." Whereas the show initially dealt with the difficulty...

moments of levity where the film comes alive", but felt things were "so turgid and lethargically paced that even the leads seem bored most of the time"...

delivery of local anesthesia. It also makes the target tissue firm and turgid from absorbed water, which can aid certain procedures. It was originally...

of pulverizing mediocrity, our boys continue to wrestle with an all-too-turgid identity crisis — they still can't decide whether it's stupider to aspire...

Philip Dunne. He later recalled reading the original novel "in horror, turgid stuff, long speeches about Welsh coal miners on strike." William Wyler,...

pretends to carry on the business, though he has substituted a pompous, turgid rigmarole of bombastic platitudes for the neophyte ritual, so that the last...

term Fedspeak (also known as Greenspeak) is what Alan Blinder called "a turgid dialect of English" used by Federal Reserve Board chairs in making wordy...

project". Jason Gorber of RogerEbert.com panned Tesfaye's performance as "turgid" and "terrible", while Stephen Rodrick of Variety considered Tesfaye lacking...

negatively to the film and said: "It's too bad J. Edgar is so shapeless and turgid and ham-handed, so rich in bad lines and worse readings." He praised DiCaprio's...

the funniest pieces of true scholarship in a field dominated mostly by turgid prose and ineffective attempts at humor". Stevens's subject was the infield...

with critics such as Dionysius of Halicarnassus rejecting the History as turgid and excessively austere. Lucian also parodies it (among others) in his satire...

her sense in ballads with this song. Stylus was mixed calling the song "turgid and humdrum," but "taken at times by an exhilarating slickness." Dave Donnely...

program". The extremism scholar George Michael wrote of it as a "750-page turgid tome", while journalists Kevin Flynn and Gary Gerhardt said it "laid out...

Dhar, Debanjan (1 May 2022). "Ananta (The Eternal) [2022]: 'KIFF' Review – Turgid, Lifeless & bereft of a fundamental clarity". High On Films. Archived from...

recreation of pre-revolution Cuba by using it as a disconnected backdrop to a turgid romance." Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade...

to be". It’s also breathtakingly unoriginal and – lyrically at least – turgid, repetitive and so damn holy I could scream. — Tony Tyler, reviewing the...

Tropical acidweed Desmarestia tropica Galápagos Islands, Ecuador Undetermined. Turgid blossom Epioblasma turgidula Southern Appalachians and Cumberland Plateau...

are dreadful." Erlewine summed up his review calling the songs a "murky, turgid mess, too concerned with atmosphere and narrative to reel in a listener...

Stone ranked Tonight the fourth most disappointing album ever, calling it "turgid" and feeling "oddly rushed". Nevertheless, many commentators have shown...

wrote, "because this is a novel that is empty of style and color, it is turgid with story. It is a cat's cradle of unrealized characters, 25 or so stick...

called the movie "harmless but negligible", with a "misconceived script and turgid direction." Since its initial release, the film has garnered a cult following...

Hospital (1973) and Inseminoid (1981). The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "A turgid piece of nonsense, filmed for the most part in what appears to be Epping...

of Variety gave the film a negative review, stating "A talky and mostly turgid attempt by British director David Yates to build on the epic vision he brought...

10 May 2022 – via National Library of Australia. "V.F.L. Teenager taunts turgid Tigers". The Canberra Times. Vol. 59, no. 18, 185. Australian Capital Territory...

effective" urban fantasy, but criticized the later scenes as "cliché-ridden and turgid". Seeing the film as an attempt to emulate The NeverEnding Story (1984)...

stated that the law "invites misinterpretation", observing that it is "turgid and repetitious", and that "[i]ts central provisions seem contradictory...

morals, politics, history, and literary criticism. Although it was often turgid, rambling, and inaccessible to most readers, it ran for 27 issues and was...

well-intentioned ladies would not write books about homosexuality. This one is turgid, unreal and so ghastly earnest. It takes the hero – soi-disant – three hundred...

loss." Freelance music writer Jeremy Simmonds described it as "somewhat turgid". Ian Hyland from Sunday Mirror gave it nine out of ten, commenting, "Not...

remarking that it is a "precise album that flits between bombastic and turgid" and "is very fun". On his list of the ten best albums of 2013, Nick Catucci...

calling the book "stylistically clumsy" with "layers of tone-deaf dialogue, turgid description, and unyielding plot"; he awarded a D rating. Also criticizing...

reciprocally while the coelomic fluid serves as a hydroskeleton by maintaining turgidity of the earthworm. When the circular muscles in the anterior segments contract...

The British philosopher Roger Scruton saw Adorno as producing "reams of turgid nonsense devoted to showing that the American people are just as alienated...

Bookseller. 16 July 1977. p. 73. Waugh, Auberon (30 July 1977). "Glib Jilly in turgid mood about love". Liverpool Daily Post (Welsh Edition). p. 4. Walker, Tim...

and Science Fiction) when rejecting a story. Campbell sent lengthy and turgid analyses, Gold sent abusive little notes, and Boucher’s rejection slips...

of glycogen to glucose increases the internal osmotic pressure and the turgidity of palisade cells in the inner peridial cup. Analysis of the glebal carbohydrates...

nutrients are carried to, into and throughout the plant. It provides the turgidity by which the plant keeps itself in proper position. In addition, water...

(11 November 2020). "The Millennium Dome Heist with Ross Kemp review – turgid true crime with TV's top hardman". The Guardian. Anderson, Justin (28 June...

their feeding tentacles at maturity, and after spawning, losing their turgidity and becoming weak. Barratt, I.; Allcock, L. (2014). "Onychoteuthis banksii"...

Extinct due to loss of all habitat through impoundment or channelization. Turgid-blossom pearly mussel Epioblasma turgidula Southern Appalachians and Cumberland...

points raised in the film." Plaintiff Dimmock complained that "no amount of turgid guidance" could change his view that the film was unsuitable for the classroom...

Rye"". In its positive review, Billboard described the song as "a twisty, turgid ballad" featuring "a piano-pounding riff", "Rose's signature howl" and "one...

into two opposing helices. The glycoproteins are stored in vacuolated, turgid cells, which are covered with caveolae on their cell surface. The angle...

stages. The next game was away at Ibrox Stadium against Rangers. Unlike the turgid affair earlier in the season, both teams tried to get the win in this game...

anoxia), many cryptobionts (such as M. tardigradum) take in water and become turgid and immobile, but can survive for prolonged periods of time. Some ectothermic...

"inward-leaning singer/songwriter roots", stating "it's impossible to disguise the turgid tuneless folk-rock swirl at the heart of Nobody's Daughter". Amanda Petrusich...

Bound with his earlier novel, High Priest, which is blessed with another turgid blurb: "No woman could resist his strange cult of lechery!" High Priest...

"voluminous lungs" and in 1769 by Giovanni Morgagni of lungs which were "turgid particularly from air". In 1721 the first drawings of emphysema were made...

Retrieved 20 June 2025. Waugh, Auberon (30 July 1977). "Glib Jilly in turgid mood about love". Liverpool Daily Post (Welsh Edition). p. 4. "Pru's problems"...

published. Nevertheless, the necessity for popularization of Marx's frequently turgid prose remained — a need finally addressed by Engels with the publication...

give The Falling a big-screen sheen that obscures its movie-of-the-week turgidity." Finbarr O'Reilly of the National Post was more positive, writing that...

deems the longest track on the album, "If I'm Dreaming My Life", as a "turgid interlude" between "Survive" and "Seven". Similar to other tracks, the lyrics...

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where Valentin Khorounzhiy of The Race described his weekend as "truly turgid, amid balance struggles manifesting what the team described as strong understeer...

aperture. The shell is not distinctly "obscurely carinated" but rather turgid below the suture, occasionally so swollen as to appear obtusely subangular...

modulates potassium and sodium uptake within the guard cells, which then lose turgidity, closing the stomata. Auxins are compounds that positively influence cell...

to their competence or authority. What they mostly have in common is a turgid prose style that, as a Governor of the BFI, I have come to recognise with...

Latin) The shell is narrowly perforated and streptaxiform, with a ventrally turgid, short, and obese shape that is almost equally high as it is wide. The shell...

the fruit too early in the morning; the turgor is high then, and handling turgid fruit releases the peel oils and may cause spoilage. Shelf life of Key limes...

summed up: "This is a fine return to form for Merchant Ivory after the turgid 'Jefferson in Paris,' their previous biographical outing." Kenneth Turan...

the "commercial shlock" of the source material, "being light instead of turgid" and "outward-looking instead of narcissistic". He applauded the portrayal...

found the film "a vulgar, shrill, deeply shallow—and, at 2 hours and 22 turgid minutes, overlong—addendum to a show", while The Daily Telegraph's Sukhdev...

Benjamin (February 12, 2016). "Midnight Special review – close encounters of a turgid kind". the Guardian. Midnight Special at IMDb Midnight Special at Rotten...

pores are largest when water is freely available and the guard cells become turgid, and closed when water availability is critically low and the guard cells...

GAA website. Retrieved 28 July 2026. "Ballina Stephenites pip Breaffy in turgid Mayo decider". RTÉ Sport. 29 October 2023. Retrieved 28 July 2026. "St Gerald's...

and then plumbed ludicrous depths, gone from being completely gripping to turgid as hell, thrown up single scenes of startling brilliance then followed them...

Shakespeare was primarily an entertainer carry the ball, but things get pretty turgid when the focus is on those who seem cowed by appearing in an adaptation...

Oakland Press considered the musical "hugely uneven", the first act being a "turgid mess" but the second act "far superior" and "more concise". Both the Chicago...

Reed of the New York Observer also awarded zero stars, calling the film "a turgid, pretentious, and incomprehensible existential joke." David Edelstein of...

a flabellate (fan-shaped) leaf. flaccid Limp; tending to wilt. Compare turgid. flexistyly Depending on the degree of maturation of the stamens, the style...

It has been found in variety of habitats, brackish pools or flowing to turgid waters, in the Upper Roe River and one of its tributaries. The distribution...

The reviewer found it to be a "Crude women's prison melodrama" with a "turgid script that rambles coyly on about lesbianism, flogging and the kinky pleasures...

natural-philosophical odes, as well as an Anacreontic ode. According to A. Kahn, "the turgidity of the Lomonosovian ode derives from a propensity to create semantic clusters...

decision to only remix "D'You Know What I Mean?", concluding that "this turgid collection is the ultimate expression of Be Here Now: as bloated and indulgent...

the composer's first opera and it shows, mainly in the clumsy prosody, turgid instrumentation that often obscures the words, ineffective vocal lines,...

(November 10, 2022). "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever Review: Ryan Coogler's Turgid Marvel Sequel Has No Time for Joy and Buckles Under Its Own Weight". Above...

best director award went to the Mexican filmmaker Amat Escalante for his turgid, violent shocker "Heli," which, among other staged atrocities, features...

the same maladies as the cheapies that came before: muddled storytelling, turgid pacing, unconvincing acting performances, and an overall sense of filmmakers...

the media industry, including television news. One reviewer called it a "turgid mess" which is not even bad enough to be good: "Unfortunately, this book...

in their growing medium which results in older growth failing to remain turgid and shriveling. They should be provided a balanced fertilizer when in active...

on 25 June. The match was described by BBC Sport's Saj Chowdhury as "a turgid affair", and noted as a game that "won't live long in anyone's memory" by...

much too random." Tim Goodman of The Hollywood Reporter said, "It was a turgid affair, badly directed, poorly produced and featuring an endless string...

and has changed his writing style for the worse over the years, with a "turgid, clotted" writing stye promoted by the likes of the Iowa Writers Workshop...

whether she's singing a rosy "All I Do Is Dream of You" or one of the most turgid torch songs, "All or Nothing at All." Her best feature is "When Sunny Gets...

Between his stylish handling of sensational nonsense and Mr. Marton's turgid floundering around a serious theme, Mr. Fuller's wild little movie has a...

(water taken might be used for photosynthesis or by the cells to maintain turgidity). To measure transpiration rate directly, rather than the rate of water...

sap to the top of a tree, Grew proposed that the parenchymal cells become turgid and thereby not only squeeze the sap in the tracheids but force some sap...

instrumentation feels more like an homage than a thoughtful reinvention, with turgid vocals bringing the song down." The music video for "Little Dark Age", directed...

harsher, rating the film half a star out of four, calling it "superficially turgid" and that its "strangely impressive originality doesn't even come close...

was less impressed: "I found at least half of [Unknown Pleasures] to be turgid and monotonous, and the vocals heavy and melodramatic—Jim Morrison without...

itself to blame for its shortcomings: for every exciting moment there's a turgid interlude which drags the overall experience down. While these distractions...

1985 was the single, "6 Days on the Road", in July. Their third album, The Turgid Miasma of Existence, appeared in June 1986. It was produced by Steedman...

[presentation] of a formula subject". Sify wrote "At best, Sivapathikaaram remains a turgid chronicle of our corrupt political system that leaves you with undeniably...

swollen to an enormous corpulence, with its countenance beyond measure turgid and suffused with blood; while the napkin in which it had been wrapped appeared...

aims at, therefore the film oscillates [...] between popular ballad and turgid comic book, historical recreation and inquiry, the Western genre and committed...

Time Out said it was for "indulgent Belmondo fans only", and called it a turgid effort "from the time when the star could churn out any old rubbish and...

racemes, measuring 5 to 12.5 cm in length. The pods are stalked, smooth, and turgid, featuring a blunt apex and a tapered base. Ripe pods exhibit a dark brown...

Times, however, criticised the series debut, describing it as "wilfully turgid". Episode 2 The Daily Telegraph's Singh dropped her rating for the second...

makes unappealing propaganda with florid images ... stentorian vocals and turgid melodies." The New York Times opined that Contenders "offers a thoughtful...

surprise us, delight us for a second or two – and then we’re back to the turgid story." News 18 estimates the film's budget to be ₹87 crore (US$9.0 million)...

that Come My Fanatics... was when Electric Wizard "really hit home, its turgid doom imbued with sleazy cosmic reach and a blackened punkish energy." and...

Review: GARM WARS: THE LAST DRUID, Mamoru Oshii Delivers Magic Dogs Amidst Turgid Fantasy". twitchfilm.com. Archived from the original on April 5, 2015. Retrieved...

unspeakable, and the cast mainly to be pitied as they labour through a morass of turgid situations. What exactly the vengeance of She has to do with it all never...

2022). "Padovani's late try gives Italy historic Six Nations win against turgid Wales". The Guardian. Retrieved 4 February 2023. "Le Gallois Josh Adams...

"MAGA rap" scene. Writing for Vice, Drew Millard described MacDonald as "turgid", and wrote that he rose to fame by "taking the undercooked platitudes of...

he did not take away the natural element in his pieces by giving them a turgid and confused style, and if he did not darken their beauty by an excess of...

floor with arched windows is heavily rusticated and the upper storey is turgid with ornate details and statuary. The central hall is set between two-storey...

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route, Burgoyne authored a proclamation to the Americans, written in the turgid, pompous style for which he was well-known, and frequently criticized and...

"Rockstar" as the best tracks on the package amidst the lifetime supply of "turgid cheese" present on the compilation. All lyrics written by Chad Kroeger and...

ticking." Joe Rivers, of No Rip Cord magazine called it "an unforgivably turgid album that is bad in practically every way imaginable." "GARY GO". Official...

he concedes that these "occasional shafts of light" were surrounded by "turgid nonsense". At the beginning of March 1833, Thom intervened in the case of...

Hutton and sees it as involving several stages. First, Hutton's long and turgid Theory of the Earth (1795) was popularized by his friend John Playfair (1802)...

indicating "generally unfavorable" reviews. Variety dismissed the film as "a turgid and unbelievable neo-western." Time Out criticized the film, stating that...

and described it as, "little more than a meditation on death, offering a turgid reminder that the end is inescapable for us all and can be devastating for...

can see in the diagram [where is the diagram?], when the cell is in its turgid state, the leaves are horizontal, and cells are filled with water. So when...

noted his disbelief that public interest in the trial extended through the turgid DNA section of the trial. He has used his status to work on issues of judicial...

are dry, flattened, obliquely winged or irregularly discoid, hardly ever turgid, and globose (spherical) or subglobose, with a brown or black phytomelanous...

works on Christian Identity, which scholar Jeffrey Kaplan described as "turgid and derivative", he founded the Christian Identity group the Sword of Christ...

was given by John Coleman of the New Statesman, who called the film a "turgid sword-and-sorcery fable, with Ralph Richardson in a backdated kind of Star...

were being butch over on the terraces". He continued, "Hymn-like dirge turgid in the extreme, strictly for the hard-core who never got round to throwing...

cosmopolitan, in the upper inter-tidal. Echiniscoides sigismundi becomes turgid in freshwater, but can survive up to three days, resuming normal activity...

tongue-in-cheek humor that is several notches in quality above the usual turgid, Italian-made spectacle. The striking cinematography, filmed in garish Eastmancolor...

wings of the stems are comparatively thin, although in age becoming more turgid, with rather variable margins, either straight or somewhat undulate, obtuse...

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document which he signs. If he signs an agreement running to 60 pages of turgid legal prose on the assurance of his solicitor that it accurately reflects...

effectively in the past; its confused reactions to NAFO may stem from its "turgid ideological propaganda about Ukraine". According to the cyber warfare unit...

with former US Ambassador to the UN John Bolton calling it "pedestrian, turgid, and uninspired" and US Congressman Dennis Kucinich "Once we are committed...

production is lowest-calibre Doctor Who". He summarised the serial as "a turgid quagmire of vapid characters, amateur dramatics, mirthless antics and clattering...

feels both weighted by history and infinitely lighter and spryer than the turgid slop that all too often passes for hard rock these days." The Village Voice...

make the movie, and it turns out like Gunslinger, or any other Corman film—turgid, insipid, clichéd, confusing, every opportunity for artistic expression...

there are some bluntly effective scenes, but unfortunately the story is turgid with typical Odets dialog. The author seems to be in love with the sound...

firmaly leathery. The seeds are oblong, 2.2–2.7 mm (0.087–0.106 in) long, turgid and tan with an aril. Acacia erioclada was first formally described in 1855...

great modern PR flubs". Upon revisiting the music, he said it was "not the turgid slog [he] remembered" but that it was ultimately an "extremely generic album...

also cools the leaf and supports its structure through the pressure of turgidity. In 2022, attempts to mass-produce artificial leaves to replicate this...

beautiful. Sight and Sound, viewing the film at Venice, dismissed it as "turgid and disappointing". Upon release in the UK, a 1967 review in the magazine...

his weakness and sent him to sea in a yacht, were common property of the turgid journalism of 1902. He had been coasting along all too hospital shores for...

record that puts everything else into perspective. Compared to all the turgid, overstrained rock that's been clawing its way from America these past years...

lodiculae or glumellulae. These lodicules are the organs that, when they become turgid, determine the opening of the antecio or floral box during flowering, allowing...

Cole notes that Brodsky's "own translations have been criticized for turgidness, lacking a native sense of musicality." After the Russian annexation of...

Took wrote, "Her anecdotes of past marriages combine the lurid with the turgid as the narrative flashes back on leaden wings to the turn of the century...

heroes." British reviewers were more critical with The Times calling it "a turgid concoction which draws no life from the Holmes/Freud confrontation and seems...

November 20, 2021. Retrieved October 15, 2022. "'Whispering Friends' a Turgid Drama; George M. Cohan Less Skillful Than Usual in His Comedy of Human Relationships"...

that successful, although it covered its costs eventually. It was a rather turgid film but we didn't have much experience as film producers then... It was...

are enough to stop me in my tracks, never mind his letters—that slovenly turgid style describing endless business deals, with a seduction every hundred...

as Pietrino Gambara Film critic Roberto Curti referred to the film as "a turgid, verbose and violent melodrama", in which the "only memorable asset is John...

Retrieved December 7, 2024. Bray, Catherine (December 6, 2024). "Mary review – turgid bibical tale has you rooting for Anthony Hopkins' hammy Herod". The Guardian...

Me’–the rest of the band back Garside with an awful slosh of uninspired turgid sub-metal shite that nearly sank [the band] without a trace first time around...

During its first shows, the play was constantly improved from being a turgid drama to having a more comedic tone, evolving from a play that was panned...

Ellwood of Entertainment Focus described Knowles' version of the song as a "turgid" ballad that doesn't "add too much to the record". Serving as the sixteenth...

production’s overall approach, describing Yaël Farber’s interpretation as “turgid” and arguing that it “leaves some fine actors stranded in the desert.” She...

The Washington Post called it "an exercise in ego" and criticized its "turgid prose" but ultimately agreed with the decision to publish it. Former George...

Mirror panned "Wrap Your Arms Around Me" as being too close to ABBA's "turgid old ballads." "Wrap Your Arms Around Me" was Fältskog's second solo single...

Torre, Nestor U. (February 7, 2014). "Xyriel kept things on even keel in turgid teleplay". INQUIRER.net. Retrieved December 8, 2023. PR. "Coco, Kim reunite...

surliness to be abnormal and painful to watch. Roger Ebert deemed it "a turgid melodrama with the emotional range of a sympathy card", citing the formulaic...

a grass plant. Tuber – an enlarged stem or root that stores nutrients. Turgid – swollen. Twigs – Vascular bundles – a strand of woody fibers and associated...

their fronds; being entirely dependent on water pressure to maintain turgidity. As a result, these fragile ferns grow optimally where the air is moist...

Valo's performance, but criticized the material backing him as "dull" and "turgid backwash". NME also described Dark Light as "wimpy", giving the album 40...

Doctor Zhivago, complete with a tacky Maurice Jarre score. Tedious and turgid." Leslie Halliwell wrote "Worthy but extremely dreary realist melodrama...

Described by Dave Bradley as “a mix of Moonbase 3 and Jupiter Moon, but more turgid than either," io9 described it as: The best science fiction show you've...

isn't the player's chops so much as their range– few bands successfully mix turgid and tense as they do, disdaining solos and remaining heavy." Most of the...

meaning they would have to travel to Gloucester in the quarter-finals. A turgid forward battle resulted in a 21–15 defeat for the Blue and Blacks. Two weeks...

critical review of Endgame, in which he described most of the songs as "turgidly overlong and underfed". Newbound called Endgame one of the most punk inspired...

avoidance is maintaining water supply and sustaining leaf hydration and turgidity with the purpose of maintaining stomatal opening and transpiration as...

Slate magazine, saying, "Here we glimpse a possible fusion between the turgid routines of MoveOn.org and the filmic standards, if not exactly the filmic...

meaning they would have to travel to Gloucester in the quarter-finals. A turgid forward battle resulted in a 21–15 defeat for the Blue and Blacks. Two weeks...

wrote: "By turns suspenseful, intellectually exciting, wildly melodramatic, turgid, and bombastic, Barker's novel is charged—in its complex development and...

initially bewitching throwback to the French New Wave and Cocteau turns into a turgid and frequently laughable pseudo-philosophical locked-room argument between...

women." Leonard Maltin wrote, "Despite its stellar cast, this is a mostly turgid adaptation of the Tolstoy classic ... " Leslie Halliwell gave it one of...

underground with his friend, a plant that makes lamps glow. However, the turgid narrative voice clashes with Rossamünd’s gentleness as he ponders moral...

other cells enters the guard cells by osmosis so they swell and become turgid. Because the guard cells have a thicker cellulose wall on one side of the...

until it reached number one on 3 May. Record Mirror described "Geno" as "a turgid eulogy with few redeeming features", stating that they believed Dexys Midnight...

Haworthia maculata, showing distinctive red-purple, spotted, normally turgid leaves, with tiny bristles on margins and keels. The highly proliferous...

maturity", while Stuart McCaighy of This Is Fake DIY regarded the song as turgid. Fiona Shepherd of The Scotsman dismissed lines such as "Flowing into your...

Gazdziak of Engine 145 rated it two stars out of five, calling "Country Boy" "turgid" and "polarizing", also criticizing the three versions present on the EP...

career." Mark Beaumont of NME was highly negative of the album, calling it "turgid bargain-bin fodder", with "a cesspool full of anonymous squidge-rawkers"...

criticized for both its mediocre sound and visual effects: The audio is a turgid sonic sludge. The visuals are even worse, with director Tony Palmer jerking...

saccharine as I'll Stand By You and a good deal more engaging than the turgid See The Day." The song received comparisons to ballads by 1990s girl groups...

capable of stinging humans. The shell is generally elongated conical to turgid is shape, with an elevated spire and a definite shoulder. The shell has...

Sensor for studying the relationship between water content and leaf cell turgidity potential and leaf thickness. Plant leaf characteristics including water...

wrote in Variety that "Monarch plays out an OK premise to results at once turgid and ridiculous." and describes McKenna's performance as "hammy". In 2014...

dismissed it as "risibly turgid" track which was "rightly rejected" from Infidels. Oliver Trager similarly called the song "turgid", opining that it "didn't...

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his status to the President, which he did at the earliest opportunity. Turgid and legalistic discussion on the matter occupied much of the Senate's time...

vulgar.' The Outlook spoke of how in the novel 'melodramatic situations and turgid rhetoric are the rule'; 'the mixture of sentiment, high-flown language,...

that "The flashback within flashback narrative gets way too clumsy and turgid, the thriller twist absolutely pointless [....] appears much too crafted...

taken all that seriously, because it gets lost in the concentration on the turgid relationships." Canadian film critic Jay Scott said "It is a film so fragmented...

relationships" between "posh" and "non-posh" men results in a novel that is a "turgid composite of his previous works." Reviewers uniformly note the importance...

pop art partook of a trend toward "openness and clarity as against the turgidities of second generation Abstract Expressionism." But Greenberg claimed that...

Nugent in his review for The New York Times called the film "... a rather turgid wartime triangle ... its characterizations are blurred, its motivation is...

presentation, glossy product." Phil McNeill of Number One wrote, "'Invisible' is a turgid song brought to life by Alison's brilliance. When someone writes Alison...

clothed to feature-length proportions. The result is a spun-out and sometimes turgid melodrama in which the macabre suspense never really clicks into place;...

attributed to someone else, usually Lockhart), his novels were regarded as turgid, his verse as light, his short tales and articles as ephemera. This situation...

Existing Part 1, Nor the Plans to Make One" "Multi-Variational Stimuli of Sub-Turgid Foci Covering Cross Evaluative Techniques for Cognitive Analysis of Hypersignificant...

jets and misters. Restricted access to water can cause plants to lose turgidity and wilt. NASA has provided funding for research and development of new...

Baháʼu'lláh's later works are "with only a few exceptions, increasingly turgid, repetitive, and visibly lacking in the linguistic brilliance and poetic...

the See You on the Other Side album: "The track burbles and grinds with turgid glee and warped sensibility." Virgin Media called the song "undoubtedly...

saying of The Polite Force, "I didn't enjoy the sessions which seemed to me turgid and unsatisfying. I don't like the album." All Egg members also played and...

Leatherface, combined) is so downright depraved, so tantalizing in its turgid storytelling and squalid scenarios that words cannot begin to describe its...

alive". espnscrum. Retrieved 21 March 2023. "All Blacks on course after turgid victory". espnscrum. Retrieved 22 March 2023. "Ireland prevail over ill-tempered...

Prior to this one SEC official complained, disclosure was "legalistic, turgid, and opaque": The typical compensation disclosure ran ten to fourteen pages...

These remarks echo general criticisms of his prose, which has been called turgid and in which intelligibility is compromised by very long sentences and missing...

Renter wrote: "Every known ingredient of the chiller finds a place in this turgid story of Soho side street." Picturegoer wrote: "This murder mystery melodrama...

emotional turmoils" coupled with his "queer streak of genius", resulting in a "turgid outpouring of his own emotional life, put into fictional form" which demonstrates...

college freshman." Clifford Terry of the Chicago Tribune described it as "turgid as well as ludicrous, drawing upon the device of meshing fictional and historical...

Araya at her best". Antonio Guastella from Nocturno described it as a "turgidly retro" and more socially engaged variation of Pavoni's previous effort...

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felt were too liberal. Baker was then dismissive of "what he saw as the turgid style of American journalists." In 2009, a year after their appointment...

boring and repetitive. Anna Broinowski calls On the Art of the Cinema "turgid, whimsical and clunky". David-West, however, points out that the work shows...

Alex Clifton, writing for In Review Online, called the album "a mostly turgid, mediocre affair" even when it was not "peddling Lewis's particular propaganda"...

to be overwhelmingly moving and Boulez gets playing from the too-often turgid Bayreuth Festival Orchestra that makes the music crackle and blaze with...

to some other volumes of the official histories which were thought to be turgid and stilted. Part of Kippenberger's work involved the production of what...

review of the film, Ann Hornday, from The Washington Post, called the score "turgid" and "over-produced". Jonathan Broxton of Movie Music UK commended the tracks...

Iredale, 1930 Shell characters (living and fossil species) The shell is turgid to conical in shape. The protoconch is paucispiral, and the spire whorl...

The spire is longer than the aperture. The nuclear whorls are smooth, turgid, the subsequent turns carrying a rounded low keel, usually in front of the...

that the role could go to Frank Burns. Discovering that the documentary is turgid propaganda, Pierce and McIntyre destroy the film at night by exposing it...

Ben Kitto, writing for Riot Magazine, was critical of the EP calling it "turgid". Kitto further critiqued the production of the record saying that "the...

has been described as "an unholy mesh of The Doors' dire delivery and the turgid tones of the Stooges, Captain Beefheart and Public Image." Petridis notes...

Websnark called the "Oceans Unmoving" storyline "long, laborious, [and] turgid", and the "Oceans Unmoving II" storyline, which ended in 2006, "mind-numbingly...

porn pusher," but then "the script wanders well out of its depth into some turgid ruminations about artistic integrity versus commercial opportunism, simultaneously...

of Radcliffe says only that "[t]he poem runs to several hundred pages of turgid and morbid rhyming couplets." Radcliffe 1826a, p. 91. McAuley 2007, p. 125...

Critic Bosley Crowther of the New York Times criticized it for being "turgid." He praised Brando's performance, however, saying: It is a role that calls...

that I found it almost unreadable because of its lack of focus and very turgid writing." Lovecraft passed his copy of The Dark Chamber to several of his...

mould". However, he felt that the song then "degenerates into a bit of a turgid plod in which Queen entirely neglect to insert a chorus [and] Mercury striv[es]...

which is regulated by proton pumps to make surrounding guard cells either turgid or flaccid. A deficiency of potassium ions can impair a plant's ability...

 That the air was heavy with the breath of these swine,  The breath of turgid summer, and  Heavy with thunder's rattapallax,  That the man who erected...

the comfortable." The reviewer criticized the writing style as sometimes "turgid" but concluded overall that the analysis was "thoughtful and useful", but...

to slightly oblique or ellipsoid with dimensions of 6 x 5 mms; they are turgid and black. It inhabits the open forest, sharing its habitat with other local...

or the tragedy of a Mayerling." Picturegoer called the film: "Somewhat turgid," adding "To take the best things in this production first, one must praise...

a mixed review, stating that it was "a sometimes compelling, sometimes turgid program that feels equal parts emotional rescue and public relations coup...

of Alone Again Or "and the vaguely hummable Gigolo," saying "the rest is turgid at best, and plain boring at worst. Such was their lack of inspiration that...

album being on a new album, "it's business as usual: mid-paced blues-rock, turgid Dadrock arrangements and lyrics so vague as to be absolutely meaningless...

trick pony." Less favourable were Trouser Press, who bemoaned the "more turgid experimental approach." At the end of 1980, it was named the year's 32nd...

the "frothy French romance evolves into a more serious drama" it "turns turgid, causing a jarring tonal shift." Josh Kupecki of The Austin Chronicle rated...

keel petals each roughly 3 cm (1.2 in) long. The fruit is an inflated, turgid legume pod up to 13.5 cm (5.3 in) long by 4.5 cm (1.8 in) wide. The fresh...

branches, which occurs on the Baja California peninsula, differs by its turgid thallus with larger branches, 2–5 mm in diameter, and further differs in...

I could play well and I was just going to go for it. I have played some turgid stuff this week, but that was by far my best tonight from 3‍–‍1 down." The...

a 10 yard Curtis Samuel run and two field goals. The second half was a turgid affair with Houston eventually getting on the board and ending up scoring...

Follicles: 3/4 inch long by 1–1 and half inch diameter, broadly lanceolate, turgid, glabrous. Seeds: 2 inch long, broadly ovate, pale, smooth and shining,...

rapper as great as Bun has managed to turn out an album as consistently turgid and leaden as this." The album's lead single, "Countin' Money", which features...

stoma is regulated by the opening and closing of its two guard cells: the turgidity of these cells determines the state of the stomatal opening, and this...

One could easily imagine Mirah being just another songwriter, singing turgid ballads about loneliness over an acoustic guitar (and indeed there is the...

system. It is cast in Marxian terminology but stripped of some of Marx's turgidity and excess verbiage." Early in Reich’s graduate career at Harvard, John...

the expense of Sporting". "FATE OF BOTH TEAMS HUNG IN THE BALANCE AFtER TURGID DRAW". "Clifford, Romeo on target as Dempo overwhelm Mumbai FC". "I-League...

tree-top and sea-side ninja battles are not enough to enliven the whole turgid affair," adding that "Shinobi offers a more compelling scenario and characters...

important contributions from Guido Reni and Ludovico Cigoli and painted turgid figures of Prophets in the pendentives and a schematic Virgin with St. Gregory...

useful source material and is a good crime story" but criticized it as "turgidly written". Although critical of the book's title, Klaus Vondung called the...

the whorl and the rest on the beak and the siphonal canal. The former are turgid where they cross the ribs, and in the interspaces have one to three much...

detumescence, tumescent, tumid, tumidity, tumor turgeō turg-  –  – turgid, turgidity, turgor umeō um-  –  – be moist humid, humidify, humidity, humidor...

results, all said." Richard Lawson of Vanity Fair wrote "Benjamin Wallfisch's turgid, discordantly sentimental score is at its most glaring when Rain and Andy...

2023). "'Someday We'll Tell Each Other Everything' Review: A Heated But Turgid May-December Romance". Variety. Retrieved 17 February 2023. Mintzer, Jordan...

Philip K. Scheuer of the Los Angeles Times wrote: "[T]he going is sometimes turgid and draggy when it should be actionful. However, the picture has its moments...

Maker described their performance as "a fresh wind blowing in the midst of turgid dishonesty"; he added: "There they were – a dozen or so people with happiness...

da Motta, 1991 Shell characters (living and fossil species) The shell is turgid in shape with a low domed spire. The protoconch is multispiral. The anal...

and a half stars while describing the album's material as "mundane" and "turgid". All tracks are written by Elliot Bergman and Natalie Bergman except where...

the evaporation of water from the surface of the grapes, which remained turgid, keeping the bunches "as if newly picked from the vine" for over three months...

Siskel of the Chicago Tribune awarded 2 stars out of 4 and called it "a turgid film" consisting of "two Joplin successes and a whole mess of failures....

Express. 8 November 2007. Retrieved 8 August 2012. "Ivors' late goals flatter turgid Tipperary". Irish Independent. 26 April 2000. Retrieved 2 August 2012. Murphy...

York Times, critic Frank Rich praised Rivera but described the show as "turgid" and "sour," filled with "phony, at times mean-spirited content" and "empty...

Katherine St. Asaph felt that "too much of Long Live the Angels just feels turgid [...] Sandé sings, well and interchangeably, over a dozen tracks of stately...

embarrassment". Theatre historian William Torbert Leonard said it was a "turgid adaptation" that "failed to enchant even the curious". In an assessment...

protoconch. The suture is distinct, and the whorl in front of it is slightly turgid, with the anal fasciole being more or less constricted in front of it. At...

the most convex, angled at the periphery, not descending at the aperture, turgid underneath, and slightly funnel-shaped with a dark ring around the umbilicus...

there isn't". The Scottish Daily Record went so far as to state that "This turgid tale of Sixties London isn't just bad - it's quite probably the worst film...

he did not take away the natural element in his pieces by giving them a turgid and confused style, and if he did not darken their beauty by an excess of...

stands in stark contrast to other Dudleya, as it has extremely thick, blunt, turgid leaves and a pale, desaturated inflorescence. The leaves of this species...

measuring 1.5 to 3 cm in diameter. When the plant becomes desiccated or loses turgidity, sunken rings appear on its surface. It develops a strong taproot that...

which is regulated by proton pumps to make surrounding guard cells either turgid or flaccid. A deficiency of potassium ions can impair a plant's ability...

the film is that it was mostly shot in Syon House." Kine Weekly wrote: ""Turgid, espionage melodrama ... the interiors are truly magnificent, but unfortunately...

and "Families" but believed the overall instrumental sound to be "heavy, turgid, synth-laden, indigestible, lumpy" and the vocal sound "quavery, unstable...

number of the "smooth jazz" greats here, without the studio slickness and turgid lack of imagination. ... The music on Expansions is timeless soul-jazz,...

operational LST. Few could sleep between supper and midnight 4 May because of the turgid tropical heat and the noise from preparing the LCAs. Across the boat decks...

grammatical correctness, and a desire to avoid the commonplace have produced a turgid and affected style, which, aggravated by rhetorical exaggerations and popular...

" However, Swan found "the background material is much better than the turgid game mechanics it supports ... The character creation system is time-consuming...

very acme of...rant", and the whole poem was "infected with inflation & turgidity". Many modern critics find themselves between these two viewpoints, Richard...

which becomes olivaceous on the base. The form is rather depressed with turgid whorls, about six in all. The nucleus is white, blunt, imperfect. The base...

questioned itself like Zweizz is doing here, and in a BM scene so awash with turgid, unthinking revivalism (and lame bands), it’s nice to know the fringes of...

ISBN 978-0-521-27207-0. Bruning, B.; Phillips, B. L.; Shine, R. (2010). "Turgid female toads give males the slip: A new mechanism of female mate choice...

publication (i.e. science fiction) might have impaired his ability to write the turgid prose typical of academic discourse, and decided to practice with a spoof...

Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic said that "while it can seem a little turgid at times, it's an ambitious project that often pays off in intriguing songs...

Instrumental Sify labelled it as a "big bore", citing "it is one of the most turgid and regressive movies in recent times. There is no semblance of style or...

from the note of B♯b3 to F5. "Get Me Bodied" progresses on a lurching and turgid beat. Its instrumentation includes drum patterns, surging horns, and synthesizers...

mantle cavity, and folds its fins tightly against the mantle to form a turgid ball. The squid may ink into the mantle cavity, making the ball opaque....

section on the UK's history, which was described by the Guardian as a "turgid, abysmal piece of writing," filled with "factual errors, sweeping generalisations...

called the novel a "very fine, sentimental, and improbable story, written in turgid and affected language," and praised the moral of the story, which "teaches...

yeah, yeah, yeah'". Conversely, Variety's A.D Amorosi called the song turgid and said it "goes nowhere". The song's official video was released on May...

relatives though, by its very rounded leaf tips and its extremely swollen, turgid leaf faces. Rosettes are usually solitary, as the plant rarely forms offsets...

a dancelike tune. The writing is richly colorful without ever sounding turgid, and the solo part combines clarity and eloquence with the sort of dizzying...

Christiansen, "Morgen und Abend, Royal Opera House, review: 'beautiful but turgid'", Daily Telegraph website, accessed 16 November 2015. Tim Ashley, "Morgen...

that is wisdom." The tone of Job 28 is calm, quite different from the 'turgid emotions of Job's speeches' both in the preceding (27) and in succeeding...

publishers [did] her a disservice in presenting this rather routine and turgid book as though it were Gone With the Wind," when it was actually a "well-researched...

William Blackwood published Stevenson in his magazine, but found his writing turgid. On economic matters, Blackwood's followed a High Tory line, exemplified...

Thompson, which is dedicated to Lord Le Despenser, and written in a strain of turgid and senseless flattery, appeared at London in 1777 (4to). Ward 1900, pp...

W. W. Beling gave us a "View of Dutch Canal". It depicted the charm of turgid yet placid waters, greenery and tender coconut palms. The "padda" house...

frame with dark red portasanta balusters. The railing was enlarged and the turgid balusters were added in the 17th century. This balustrade was copied by...

Monterosato, 1923 Shell characters (living and fossil species) The shell is turgid in shape with convex sides. The protoconch is paucispiral. The whorl tops...

as well as the substance of his teachings, (actor Jean Claude) LaMarre's turgid take has very little to offer dramatically or inspirationally." At its widest...

of the '80s. But the singer just as often gets bogged down in treacly, turgid emoting that will please his devoted fans but will turn away those casual...

tubercular Having tubercles. tumid Swollen; inflated; e.g. of a stipe. turgid Tightly swollen, e.g. from hydrostatic pressure of endosmosed water. From...

walls. There are about 2-3 cells in the costa. The leaf cells are very turgid and irregularly round-like hexagons. These leaf cells are unistratose which...

against Dublin who hadn't won a championship title since the 1980s. In a turgid match, Canavan scored eleven of Tyrone's twelve points in the, but still...

Weekly, Dimitri Ehrlich wrote, "Featuring saccharine sentiments set to turgid arrangements, the seamlessly produced, soulless ballad 'Brokenhearted' is...

hostility, but which the historian J. P. Kenyon attributed to his appallingly "turgid and incoherent" prose style. From 1675, Tonge was acquainted with the fervently...

Ugly Pop, Divorce Records, Reluctant Recordings, Broadway to Boundary, Turgid Animal, Endless Latino Members Nic Hughes Jeremy Van Wyck Isabel Ford Past...

two minds about the rules, writing, "The rules can only be described as turgid in style and form, but once you've struggled through the unbroken chunks...

Caged Demonwolf also has a humorously unfortunate tendency to speak only in turgid, long-winded, and unnecessarily alliterative speeches, which often obscure...

magazine said Wright is a "remarkably gifted wordsmith whose talent makes turgid facts not only digestible, but also generates a hunger for more" and commented...

provide context and bring newcomers up to date. But it's also complicated and turgid, sort of like a lecture from a professor who left his sense of humor in...

olivaceous periostracum. The suture is distinct but not channelled. Whorls are turgid and evenly rounded. The aperture is nearly equal in length to the spire...

Samuel Chew and Richard Altick declaring: "[Coleridge's] addiction to 'turgid ode and tumid stanza,' clogged with pompous rhetoric and frigid personification...

Fantastic Movie Musings and Ramblings, Dave Sindelar criticized the film's "turgid pacing", lack of plot, and underdeveloped scenarios. Dennis Schwartz of...

completely forgotten the book, and, on rereading it, found the writing "lush and turgid", using more adverbs and adjectives than he would at that later date, and...

"forceful, emphatic score". Richard Lawson of Vanity Fair called the score "turgid". Tim Grierson of Screen International wrote "Volker Bertelmann's thundering...

Baltimore Sun, September 23, 1964, p.26 "'Man From U.N.C.L.E.' Debut rated turgid, predictable bore", by Cynthia Lowry, AP feature in Wellsville (NY) Daily...

– via Newspapers.com. Mantle, Burns (November 12, 1926). ""The Squall" Turgid Melodrama of Spain". Daily News. New York, New York. p. 137 – via Newspapers...

the whole description is so loaded with rarely used technical terms and turgid sentences about unessential things, that it would be difficult for an ordinary...

compulsive enough", Jurassic Park "sure as hell makes a fine change from the turgid and unimaginative stuff we are used to getting from big licenses. Even Spielberg...

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yellow and twice the calyx with linear pods linear of 12–18 lines long, turgid with 9–15-seeds per pod. Lotus creticus has been found to engage in nitrogen-fixing...

Championship for the first time in over 30 years. Belying the fixture's turgid reputation, fellow Australians Stuart Law and Andrew Symonds have both made...

Blackburn Rovers with Ali Al-Hamadi scoring the only goal of the game. A turgid game against Millwall looked to be heading for a goalless draw before the...

semi-Byzantine Egyptian Nonnus (about AD 400). He wrote in an affected and turgid style, in the classical form of the hexameter; he abounds, however, in brilliant...

song in Record Mirror, journalist John Shearlaw wrote "Why then is this turgid, beatless, tuneless, production-less mere germ of an idea (that could turn...

changing into a Jay-Z black colored Roc Nation T-shirt, boasting, over turgid beats and cyber-synths, about his Twitter feed "f***ing with some anthems"...

produced by the osmotic uptake of water into the laticifer cell resulting in a turgid cell. When pierced the cell bursts and latex travels quickly through the...

During their transplant saga I nearly donated a kidney myself to end the turgid tale. Get rid of 'em." Fans called for the family to be axed, and an editorial...

portentous epigrams that the shipwreck scene almost came as comic relief. The turgid business ended in a welter of gore and iambic pentameters that surely left...

written music to accompany that best case scenario, rather than the tame and turgid melodrama the film actually is; as such, his contribution is likely to be...

2022. "Padovani's late try gives Italy historic Six Nations win against turgid Wales". The Guardian. 19 March 2022. Retrieved 21 March 2022. "Dupont to...

that is, its author admits practically everything and justifies it in turgid surges of clotted prose as necessary and even praise-worthy". A more positive...

the Sea. Reviews of the book come out mixed to negative because of Dash's turgid prose. Lorraine notes to Dash that she has a new year's worth of students...

desert surfaces and polar exposures. When shoots are fully hydrated and turgid, the photosynthetically active lower cells are prominent, and the hyaline...

ratings. In a 2006 review for The Guardian Philip French called the movie "a turgid romantic comedy" and an "embarrassing affair". A review for the BBC called...

and elegant style of the '60s and '70s doesn’t need to be an exercise in turgid nostalgia." Edouard Morton of theDwarf.com.au caught their live gig in May...

" Muir, in book on the films of Hooper described it as a "heavy-handed, turgid muddle of a movie that isn't thrilling or even particularly erotic (though...

universally admired. Edgar Allan Poe described the style of writing as "turgid pretension". During 1840, Ainsworth simultaneously wrote The Tower of London...

Poem I", a ten-minute epic that "puts 'November Rain' to shame with its turgid bombast", and embraces all "the genuine traits of '80s rock without discrimination...

major disappointment – not just compared to the original, but on its own turgid terms. It's hard to say if the concept is mortally wounded – the beauty...

"translucent score". Marjorie Baumgarten of The Austin Chronicle called it "a turgid musical score". David Ehrlich of IndieWire listed it as one of the best...

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and Spanish migrants. She found however that the style and language were turgid and indigestible, and that parts that should have been fascinating were...

like a political treatise than a poem", and simply "unreadable". The word turgid is regularly used to describe it, and the scholar Russel Blaine Nye went...

transformation" and noted its influence on Barney, but described it as "overly turgid". The English professor Kathryn Hume noted that the novel was the product...

"[Hewett's] four-volume opus consists in large part of detailed and somewhat turgid recitation, of names, dates, committees, inscriptions, salaries and some...

Years 1928–1959 David Quinlan rated the film as "poor", writing: "Dreary, turgid drama: seems much longer than it is." TV Guide called the film "a poorly...

whorls, of which the first whorl and a half are white, polished, smooth and turgid. The subsequent whorls of the shell have a dull surface. The earlier whorls...

Minister Margaret Thatcher but finds his secretary disdainful and his briefs turgid and devious. Furthermore, Sir Robert Armstrong, head of the civil service...

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maneuvers, and is placed on leave pending reassignment. The author utilizes a turgid bureaucratic style of phraseology for the many memoranda that are a part...

resulted in the cancellation of his contract; other volumes were thought to be turgid and stilted. Since 1993, some volumes have been reissued by Willson Scott...

critics have to come, and they will tell me that she is unwomanly, unnatural, turgid,—the creation of a morbid imagination, striving after effect by laboured...

his name as one of the denizens of the celebrated Goon Show, and awkward, turgid scenes of moral conflict." Allmovie noted, "a stellar supporting cast enables...

Cardiff was still finding his feet with this, his second film. It's a rather turgid tale about a grown-up wartime evacuee who returns to England to clear his...

startling or revolutionary", but expressed concern that its "sometimes turgid text" and sheer scope could "overwhelm general readers", and thereby prevent...

just the way Susann would... almost perfectly capturing glamorous Jackie's turgid but E-Z reading prose style and ultrareliable mix of sex, glitz, dope 'n'...

Plants (2010, Tape Drift Records) Horseback / Locrian with Horseback (2011, Turgid Animal) Locrian (2007, self-released) – includes Setting Yr. Jetta on Fire...

protagonist, whom Wallace calls unlikable, he says the novel's prose is so "turgid" that it distracts "us with worries about whether Mr. Updike might be injured...

2007. Retrieved 29 October 2007. "UNKLE: War Stories". The A.V. Club. A turgid modern, progressive rock with superficial hip-hop sheen. [August 2007, p...

experience dehydration symptoms (dry mouth, low urine output, loss of skin turgidity) as while as vomiting, nausea and fever, and the usual RVT symptoms like...

her play a dual role on The Love Boat. The Los Angeles Times called it "turgid". Cameras Are Rolling Again in Old County Courthouse Los Angeles Times 5...

near Yemen in western Mauritius. This plant had short, wide, compact, turgid leaves. It also bore unusually massive, robust, and multi-branched inflorescences...

the course of a play, he has a destiny. Although he seeks to escape the turgid atmosphere of the preparatory school, he also believes that he must actualize...

conducted by Miss Scarborough." The Musical Times described the piece as "turgid". However, it was performed again at Bournemouth Symphony Concerts the following...

residents were evacuated as the main street was under more than a metre of turgid, muddy water, and the same thing occurred all along the Macquarie River...

visible on the periphery, crossed by two strong spiral cords, more or less turgid at the intersections. The whorl above these cords is somewhat excavated...

astonishingly scathing one-star review of the album in NME, decrying it as "a turgid, tuneless, completely crass piece of mix and match nu-metal" and describing...

resistance against drought stress.[citation needed] The leaves remain somewhat turgid even under very low leaf water potential, due to osmotic adaptation by synthesis...

thick, in contrast to that of Niebla eburnea, a similar species that has turgid to slightly inflated branches with a mostly smooth cortex, 65–150 μm thick...

it "a wretched production in which pseudo-classic propriety mingles with turgid diction". Hogan 1968, p.1597 Internet Archive Jerningham 1882 A Biographical...

linear-lanceolate, older leaves are oblong-lanceolate and much more wide and turgid at the base. Leaves are 7 to 11 cm long, and older leaves are 4.5 to 5.5 cm...

the saints' lives were ignored at first, partly due to their florid and turgid language, but his more traditional prose works set in the underworld of...

of the whole adventure is lethargic and insipid." Variety called it a "turgid drama with indifferent acting, flat dialog and uneven lensing." Filmink...

consolidation of Benét's strengths as a seduction artist. Arriving after the turgid turmoil of Hurricane, this is frankly a relief, as Benét demonstrates a...

and Steve Walwyn creating an extra depth that obviates the need for the turgid, monotonous rifferama that lesser bands perforce adopt" (Paul Suter, Sounds...

uninteresting dramas that’s been on television for a while", "drab" and "pretty turgid human drama." Kevin O'Sullivan writing for The Daily Mirror said, "Hermione...

a few years before and we were playing them all again. But instead of a turgid process of replication we found ourselves reigniting the flame we had then...

less enthusiastic. Lugosi biographer Arthur Lennig considered the film "turgid", and AllMovie awarded it 2+1⁄2 out of 5 stars. The Silent Command was Lugosi's...

was characteristic of his writing then, Jarrett's string parts are mostly turgid and thick-set, indulging in weird, sliding microtones on "Windsong", weighted...

Daniel Olorumfemi Fagunwa. This magical folkloric adventure novel, full of turgid rhetoric and featuring the main character of the legendary Yoruba hunter...

that the release of the album was "a shaft of light through some pretty turgid folk times and [marked] Gaughan's first full emergence as a premier league...

Aquila (a friend), and himself, under the name Arnoldus. The style is turgid. 'Northern Memoirs' was written in 1658, put together in 1685, and not published...

and "Route 66". Sandy Robertson, writing for Sounds, described it as "a turgid four-sided video soundtrack".[clarification needed] Jimmy Guterman, writing...

with a firmer, smoother thallus lacking any farinose covering, and with turgid, fusiform ascospores that are three-septate with one or more additional...

Charleston hoped Madge's return to the serial would be a counter to the "turgidness" of her "really sad" death in 2001. A subplot of the 30th anniversary...

violent goings-on in the Cold Comfort Farm territory." Kine Weekly wrote: "Turgid tabloid crime melodrama, with drab farm background. ...The picture, cut-price...

image cadenzas and concept improvisations seems to be unavailable to the turgid, thick-rimmed cells of his poetic imagination, and the poems seem more a...

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wide, not very deep. The sculpture consists of about six strong, short, turgid ribs obsolete in front of the periphery and on the last half of the body...

Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic said that "while it can seem a little turgid at times, it's an ambitious project that often pays off in intriguing songs...

however; Kaeuper moans that "I fear that some readers who struggle through its turgid prose and allegory gone to seed—244 pages in Anglo-Norman French—may think...

woozy keyboards and futuristic synths. "Gangsta?", finds him boasting, over turgid beats and cyber-synths, about his Twitter feed "f***ing with some anthems"...

that his company (along with his coffee) was far preferable to discussing turgid Marxist tracts and Baudelaire poems, which had been the case with the FLQ...

Protestant), was Macready's unluckiest misjudgment. Believing the gloomy, turgid affair to be a work of 'fine thoughts expressed in massive language', he...

anticipated. It is not the fault of the principals, but simply that the somewhat turgid screenplay and the implausibilities of this meller are too much for the...

and curatorial impulses admirable, ... the work, however, is too often turgid and uncritically adoptive of Western artistic frameworks". At the same time...

similarly critical of the province, describing the display against Connacht as "turgid nonsense", adding "There's no point in talking about Munster's attack, that...

The Student, was negative in his review, calling "Slow Motion Kisses" "a turgid, plodding excursion, losing itself in its self-indulgence with all the atmosphere...

"reduc[ed] the play’s ambiguities and resonances to something charmless, turgid and unmoving." In The Observer, on the other hand, Fiona Maddocks called...

Verhältniss zur Wissenschaft (Heidelberg, 1822), describing Hinrichs's work as turgid and difficult to follow. Hinrichs was convinced that philosophy was superior...

of Indiewire rated it D− and wrote, "Tiresomely told, uninteresting, and turgid, Electric Slide is as insipid as it gets—a meaningless movie about almost...

presented as an allegory of patience and the meaning of life. From the turgid air and the layered cramped and blackened hut in which he is condemned to...

Indestructible Metallic Alloy. Perth: Acidic Books, 1979. A formidable hodge-podge, turgid and confused -- yet remarkably similar to the present work. Professor Gebstadter's...

for the Record Industry Freek Records tUMULT Crucial Blast Heavy Blossom Turgid Animal Utech Not Not Fun, Matching Head Second Layer Posh Isolation Neurot...

David Barbe and drummer Malcolm Travis, Mould's sound is dense but never turgid," wrote Mat Snow for Q. "Better still, his melodic instinct to head for...

sense of their parts as Chris and Ruth, but untidy direction, plus a loose, turgid script, beats them in the end. Novelettish dialogue and cheap settings are...

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or less excavated. The suture is distinct, the margin in front of it is turgid, giving an effect as if minutely channelled. The excavated area forming...

that "ran out of gas". Biographer Jeffrey Meyers called it Poe's "most turgid and opaque poem". "Al Aaraaf" includes names Poe would later reuse: Ligeia...

of Lord Cloncurry. The style of the latter was 'puerile, involved, and turgid,' revealing a defect which the author never overcame. But his next book...

Snooker Scene magazine, described Thorburn's performance as "successful if turgid". Kirk Stevens won the first frame against Willie Thorne but lost the next...