A turgid version of something that doesn't actually belong to them.
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I feared, in the first minutes, a tone of turgid solemnity.
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She looked more defiant than solemn, her features turgid with angry confusion.
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The website looks more like Expedia than some turgid public splash page.
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What happens next is by turns tense and turgid, unsurprising and appalling.
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But used to excess, it can render prose turgid and, at worst, unreadable.
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They sure as hell aren't bringing in new fans via their turgid storylines.
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His ruminations about them, turgid phallic references aside, are enlightening, if rather bleak.
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Do you find a turgid penis staring back at you more often than not?
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Trump's demonization of Mexican immigrants as rapists and criminals dips into this turgid pool.
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As well meaning as this movie is, it is also a turgid, muddled one.
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And it's never met a scene it couldn't make even more turgid and portentous.
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A turgid communiqué summarising the outcome of the four-day conclave contained few other revelations.
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It was long branded untranslatable, a view reinforced by a turgid rendering published in 1931.
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Not half as impressive as "15 Horsepower Citroën," indeed, it feels rather turgid by comparison.
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Most have little time or patience for attending political rallies, or wading through turgid party manifestoes.
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Even the individual turgid with blood wouldn't be of much help for ID-ing the host.
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The next day the European Commission's turgid daily press briefing was broadcast live on Catalan television.
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ZIMBABWEANS tuned into their turgid state broadcaster on Sunday night expecting the news of a lifetime.
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Otherwise it's just some turgid thing that one has to do when you get to 50.
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At its best, Pallbearer's infusion of fresh harmonic blood into doom's turgid circulatory system is exhilarating.
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It limped on in fringe meetings, failing states and the turgid liturgy of the Chinese Communist Party.
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LSE emerged from what was a troubling 2017 with a 47 percent profit jump despite turgid markets.
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Lurid yet turgid, the movie is a tale of doomed puppy love, Nazi eugenics and sexual sadism.
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Indeed, Mr. Tillerson was often uncomfortable navigating the choppy and turgid waters of the Washington political scene.
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Many World Cup draws have been turgid affairs, overloaded with dignitaries and dragging on far too long.
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What's most remarkable is that it took two directors to yield a work this turgid and inept.
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That turgid style appears to be incrementally changing in the wake of Diaz-Canel becoming president in April.
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Then it fills this squid orb with its own ink, becoming "an unpalatable, turgid ball," Dr. Caiger said.
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" Many remained unfinished, he said, after he decided that they were "dreadful, turgid illustrations of some wonderful theme.
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That they come across as turgid landscapes of expressionistic phallic fecundity may be more than a side issue.
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But it can be turgid and long-winded; parts are dedicated to prophecies of the kind Popper thought nuts.
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And given the way things started off, I agree that they'd probably be thrilled with turgid at this point.
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And their bile is not made more credible by the substantial misogyny with which they lard their turgid script.
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Aside from the fact that their opponents were turgid, Spurs' first home win over United since 2001 was quite magnificent.
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Everything is drab and rather exhausting as these florid documents struggle hard to communicate what turgid "punk aggression" was about.
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Conspicuously absent are Xi Jinping's turgid works, such as "The Governance of China", a must-read for any party apparatchik.
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Yet, in context, they accomplished the more earthbound dramaturgical task of nimbly developing character or advancing plot without turgid exposition.
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Arsenal is still 8 points out of fourth place, behind all of its main rivals and locked in turgid form.
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"The DC universe so far has consisted of four films… that are dark, turgid, nihilistic, and often confusing," Donovan said.
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But they're often subject to a particular vocabulary, and sometimes that vocabulary is a little repetitive — and a little turgid.
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Meanwhile, the rest of the directors have been largely caught in the crossfire that is the result of the turgid distrust.
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The leadership campaign struggled to attract public attention, possibly because there were 14 candidates, often turning the debates into turgid affairs.
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" As Harding explained in clear if turgid prose, "America's present need is not…submergence in internationality, but sustainment in triumphant nationality.
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As such, the Croats went out of the competition prematurely, the first of several teams to be lured into Portugal's turgid trap.
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Like two other influential professors, John Dewey and Thorstein Veblen, both of whom were his exact contemporaries, Boas was a turgid writer.
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"This can manifest in a few ways: either they will start to look a bit tired â€" somewhat softer, and less turgid.
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Dull grays associated with brutalism were employed by Esteban Cortazar and Miu Miu, while turgid browns flooded the runways at Givenchy and Hermès.
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I guess the 11-year-old me was more into Chris Evans-approved turgid dad rock than some weird, warbling progressive art rock.
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Maybe it's badly worded enthusiasm, and appealing to a presumed audience of gearheads, but it slows driving games down, makes them stuffy, turgid.
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Arthur: Computer hacking notwithstanding, the Democratic Convention looked a bit turgid on paper, even if that's not how it's working out in practice.
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Old Trafford's ramparts were breached under David Moyes, while the place was practically torn apart during the turgid reign of Louis van Gaal.
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But "Vikings" also has a jazzy vitality that sometimes is missing from the more turgid "Thrones," a little more pep in its step.
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This time the five-storey-high turgid penis is bright blue and painted on the side of a building in Kungsholmen island, Stockholm, Sweden.
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That's effectively the heart of the thesis of this petite book, which numbers just over 200 pages of eminently readable if occasionally turgid writing.
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A huge, four-storey mural of a turgid penis popped up on a building on Broome St. in New York City on Christmas Eve.
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This makes Damnation more intriguing for the fillips around its edges than for its central plot (which is a little turgid at the start).
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But the failure wasn't because of his turgid prose, or the murky ethics of interviewing a fugitive and letting him review the article before publication.
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He transformed a side known for turgid defence into one feared for its swashbuckling attack, by supplementing an experienced British core with flamboyant European youngsters.
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While many will blame Portugal for the turgid nature of the grand finale, the French created remarkably little of worth at the Stade de France.
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Miller and Hardy (the dream team of Olivia Colman and David Tennant) are still working together three years after the turgid events of Season 210.
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Knowing that Stage 2 is coming, you can relax a little during Stage 1; your inner editor will diligently revise the clumsy, turgid bits later.
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Instead of a land of the moon, Nicole Garcia's mostly turgid, occasionally risible period piece, largely set in the 1950s, initially takes us to Lyon, France.
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Neither its history nor its setting suggested anything as dark and claustrophobic as Korn's primal howl of a debut, or the many turgid albums that would follow.
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That, having been unceremoniously discarded by the club, Pellegrini has decided to take his dastardly revenge and plunge Guardiola into the turgid mire of Europe's second tier.
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It concluded with a pledge by Mr. Tillerson to fix the department's turgid email system and improve medical leaves and travel arrangements — bureaucratic problems that underwhelmed many.
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Punk begat New Wave, which congealed into the turgid bolus of synthesizer-heavy '80s rock — until the icebreaker of Grunge brought yet another return to the basics.
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Still, the small cast — also including Roe Hartrampf as, well, I can't really explain it — sings Geoff Morrow's turgid Andrew Lloyd Webber-like songs at thrilling throttle.
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Four decades of turgid pronouncements show a simple vision: good policies from the central government produce a unified people, along with a prosperous, contented and loyal nation.
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It was a little rough around the edges, but the scale was welcome, as was the shift away from the increasingly turgid Assassins versus Templars secret society scramble.
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An actually urgent message from the Canada Arts Council that had for whatever reason wound up among the turgid, sweaty-palmed, grammatically flawed emails of the spam folder.
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The video also highlights efforts by China's Communist Party to turn to foreign actors, cartoons and even rap to try to deliver its ideas in less turgid formats.
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No—Spielberg's descent into old-man-yells-at-cloud territory became apparent in the last two weeks as he's entered the public eye to plug something beyond turgid historical dramas.
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The Global Times is a jingoistic tabloid that tackles topics shunned by rivals, even though it is a subsidiary of the Communist Party mouthpiece, the important-but-turgid People's Daily.
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Spoiler: there's a lot of stuff about how you shouldn't send a sweaty, grainy photo of your turgid boner, the skin pulled back to the base to emphasise the length.
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Later in their careers, as Ms. Ahrens and Mr. Flaherty took on big-boned projects like "Ragtime" and "Anastasia," they produced big-boned songs that sometimes struck me as turgid.
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Smith sprinkles James's distinctively fresh early style with just the lightest pinch of turgid fussiness — the language is pitch perfect — and his insights into James's character and mind are flawless.
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Oxford University Press; 224 pages; $27.95 ONE OF the most important essays written by Mao Zedong was also one of his more turgid, a work published in 1937 entitled "On Contradictions".
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L) emerged from what was a troubling 2017 with a 47 percent profit jump despite turgid markets, helping to ease lingering concern over management upheaval and its aborted Deutsche Boerse (DB1Gn.
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At Sunderland, too, the turgid football only tells half the story: in recent seasons they've hired a fascist, protected a child abuser, and seen their manager threaten to slap a woman.
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I work hard to write literate English, but I began to wonder if the turns of phrase I labor over are turgid or if they obscure the action in my novels.
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Sometimes the game in the Premiership can be turgid and quite slow for the fans, and with this new format there should be more focus on the skills and the speed.
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As the NBA has adopted a loose, fluid style based on ball movement and precision shooting, the NCAA has gotten slower and more physical—the pace is turgid and offenses are anemic.
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While I delight as much as Dr. Kramer does in scrutinizing studies for flaws in design and execution — he talks effect sizes, dropout biases, additivity — his writing is maddeningly turgid in places.
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Directed and written by Woody Allen, this film was not well-received by critics or fans, with one film reviewer calling the film "turgid to the point of ridiculousness and absurdly anachronistic."
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By comparison, the singular gaudy mane and turgid bearing of Eustis's Caesar are unmistakable; it's clear why some viewers might find his onstage death to be an act of petty liberal vengeance.
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These are pretty and colorful, but they are hung in the middle of a dark, turgid night sky: a sort of dream of happiness set against a world of doubt and sorrow.
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Now we've got a remix to put some new life into the turgid single, but I don't think Kanye saying "I'm the new Steve" and "I'm the new Walt" does it any favors.
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The party produced a turgid manifesto that alienated voters with an ill-thought-out plan to make rich homeowners pay more for social care—a plan that was quickly dubbed the "dementia tax".
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To the relief of her supporters and the tabloid commentariat, May makes a strong start with a win over Bosnia & Herzegovina, this despite a turgid performance in which Ryan Bertrand gets the only goal.
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A few hundred Dutch fans did show up at Energa Stadium on Wednesday, tucked into one corner, where they and 40,000 more optimistic Polish fans watched a mostly turgid exhibition on a sloppy field.
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Suddenly galvanized into action against the turgid, tired party elite that had ruled since a Soviet-led invasion crushed reform in 1968, Czechs and Slovaks rallied by the hundreds of thousands to demand change.
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While the game itself was utterly turgid – misplaced passes, wayward shots and clumsy touches defining the entire 90 minutes – Villa did at least manage to avoid a new club record of 12 consecutive defeats.
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Three hours of pro wrestling each and every Monday, followed by two on Tuesdays with Smackdown, makes for turgid viewing, especially when they're produced by a company so prone to seasonal doldrums as WWE is.
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It is there in the welcoming arms of strangers, in the turgid and rotten beat of Shangri La, pumping through to the atmosphere of the main-stage and meandering in-and-out of the campsites.
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The turgid language in these dull corporate reports is actually sprinkled with important clues about major problems — and there is a way to get an inkling about them without actually having to read every word.
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It will "study several important issues on the upholding and perfecting of the system of socialism with Chinese characteristics and the promotion of the modernization of state governance," Xinhua said, using typically turgid party phrasing.
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While commending the beauty and majesty of Wagner's compositions, Mr. Gutman also took pains to analyze his nonmusical activities — notably his profuse, turgid and virulently anti-Semitic writings, which would become a lodestar of Nazi ideology.
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Charter schools have the independence to try new approaches tailored to their communities and can adapt more quickly than schools that are part of a turgid bureaucracy, yet they are also held accountable for student outcomes.
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But, until he died, he allowed us to inhabit his righteous and turgid, pure and debased universe, which he filled with the true and fake news of who we were, if only we would listen. ♦
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This may be the real tragedy of the entire, turgid affair: that while the politicians of the Brexit pantomime fight to stab each other in the back, more Britons are pushed toward even less palatable characters.
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A self titled 21970 debut LP set their stall in fine fashion, but it was 22008's Come My Fanatics that really hit home, its turgid doom imbued with sleazy cosmic reach and a blackened punkish energy.
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Because here, along the banks of the Bagmati river — turgid and brown before the onset of the monsoons — is where the devout send their dead to the next world in accordance with the teachings of the Vedas.
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With many voters viewing a fourth term for Merkel as almost inevitable and turned off by a turgid campaign - occasionally punctured by heckling and tomato hurling in protest at Merkel's refugee policy - pollsters say turnout may be low.
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As they have since the first NPC convened in 1954, delegates stay heroically awake as turgid speakers drone on; they applaud enthusiastically on cue; and they approve, without exception, the laws, budgets and government reports put before them.
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Formerly the U.S. chief performance officer and deputy director for management at the Office of Management and Budget, Cobert started work at the OMB in 2013 and worked to streamline the government's turgid process for acquiring information technology.
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"Please Give" opens in a radiology office, with breast after breast—young, old, black, white, huge, tiny, saggy, turgid—laid out on a mammogram machine, in a display of realism unlike any other cavalcade of boobs in cinema.
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But Ryan's support is nevertheless a big get for Trump, who has been struggling to line up endorsements from congressional Republicans understandably worried about what their party's turgid nominee will do to their own reelection chances this fall.
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Though Jews often refer to themselves as "people of the book," the canonical books they studied and prayed from into the 1970s were often dense with undifferentiated Hebrew and Aramaic typeface and translated in inflated or turgid English.
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OSCAR DESPARD Dublin If Britain's new home secretary has the stamina to read the same piece of Ayn Rand's turgid prose twice a year he might have what it takes to reform the dysfunctional Home Office (Bagehot, May 5th).
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Even sharing a stage with a naked Alan Cumming, the swimming pool steals the show in "'Daddy,'" the turgid new play by the seriously talented Jeremy O. Harris, which opened on Tuesday night at the Pershing Square Signature Center.
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It has been downhill since, with inflation sliding back to the turgid levels the Fed has fought against since the 2007-2009 financial crisis and recession, and the central bank poised to reverse course with rate cuts this year.
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Aguirre, the Wrath of God ends with a conquistador, played by Klaus Kinski, on a motionless raft in the middle of a turgid river, surrounded by dead bodies and squirrel monkeys, raving about the empire he still plans to construct.
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That elixir grants Rogers barn-door shoulders, a chest that seems like it could stop an oncoming train, biceps that can curl helicopters, and a butt so turgid and round that it threatens to redefine the idea of American exceptionalism.
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Every four years, a giant swath of the American population fixates on a worldwide competition that fuses turgid nationalism with the hypnotic chaos of humans flinging themselves into the air and landing on tiny metal slivers atop a slick, glassy surface.
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Not only did he kick things off with some truly exquisite hypocrisy at Old Trafford, his team responded to accusations of dullness by manufacturing a turgid 1-0 win courtesy of a route-one goal kick and flick-on combo.
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"Everyone likes to make the comparison to Cliffs Notes," he said, referring to those yellow-covered books that many a student in the US used and uses to work around reading turgid texts, or at least to help understand them.
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Straight audiences will likely never have heard of Brent Corrigan, and gay audiences will die of exposure slogging through turgid, sexless dialogue waiting for a glimpse of any male body part that isn't a pair of rapidly pumping ass cheeks.
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In its turgid statement, the party also announced changes to the Rules on Intra-Party Political Life, first introduced in 1980 to prevent any cult of personality after Mao's rule plunged the country into anarchy during the 1966-1976 Cultural Revolution.
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Cheer focuses on a competitive sport that fuses turgid, erotic tribalism with the body-breaking violence of muscular humans flinging tinier, lighter humans into the air and then catching them — callused hands atop thickly taped wrists, clawing into triceps and ankles.
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It is essentially a cliché now to point out that the turgid question, "How will you pay for it?" seems to only get applied to left-wing priorities—never to endless war, or to the cost of maintaining the status quo.
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The show featured turgid, realist portraits of Hitler; wobbly brown landscapes of fields and churches; Norman Rockwell–esque Aryan domestic scenes; and monumental homoerotic Soviet statuary — all considered by the Nazi Party to be appropriate works of art for the German Volk.
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The critical recognition she craved mostly eluded her — her best-selling novels "The Fountainhead" (1943) and "Atlas Shrugged" (1957) were lurid, melodramatic, full of implausible characters and turgid harangues — and as her fame and notoriety grew, she retreated to the safe harbor of her acolytes.
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Mr. Spicer's ties, on the other hand — like many of those sold under Mr. Trump's own label — continue to be thick and shiny: "turgid pieces of silk," as Mr. Sullivan said, in colors like an outlandish lime green or purple covered in polka dots.
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Back in January, LA-based label and blog The Astral Plane unveiled its debut solo release in Switzerland-based producer SHALT's Acheron EP, which took an almost philosophical approach to speculating on the promise of artificial life extension by means of turgid, concussive beats.
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Taken together, the camera's floating pans and the droning music's synthetic, choir-like sounds (the only audio in the film) conjure a transcendent atmosphere that reinforces emotional associations about the highness of high political office — and how that turgid experience is quaintly manipulated these days.
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And when Warner Bros.' first handful of superhero movie efforts in this new era were turgid, gritty messes (think Batman v Superman, Suicide Squad, etc.), a future of superhero cinema hopelessly divided between overly sugary and overly gloomy films seemed like it was about to happen.
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As the books of musicals have lurched forward in sophistication, the story of a town that awakens in the mists of Scotland only one day out of every century has come to seem both weird and trite, an impression only enhanced by revisiting the turgid 1954 Vincente Minnelli film.
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Anyway, by the end of the season, the colonia had fallen to the drug lords who'd been threatening it, in increasingly turgid fashion, over several episodes — but it didn't matter, because Nick and his new girlfriend Luciana (Danay García) had led "their people" to safety just over the US border.
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Mr. Yi's earliest well-known article for an economics journal, published in 1990 in the China Economic Review while he was still an assistant professor at Indiana University, had a turgid title that might prove especially useful: "Inflation and Price Instability: An Empirical Study of the People's Republic of China."
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Read more: Hilton Als: How Rachel Weisz Helped Save My Life Ethan Hawke is wonderful, and I'm glad most people (the academy excepted, though I'm sure they'll come around when he plays a scarily accurate Mike Pence in a turgid "satire" of the Trump administration in 2028) now agree with me about that.
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In a panel from the new Batman: Damned No. 1, written by Brian Azzarello with art by Lee Bermejo, the superhero's penis, seemingly tired from a night of trying to solve the Joker's murder, is seen leaning to Batman's hard right, resting behind a pair of turgid thighs and just below a chiseled waist.
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Then there's what I consider to be Sausage Party's seminal moment — an enduring, turgid food orgy where several types of foods are in, on top of, or pounding against each other — root vegetables rubbing their growths, carb-on-carb sex, grits fucking the hell out of crackers — while moaning enthusiastically like first-time performers in a cheap porno.
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That series has struggled to find a storytelling foothold ever since the end of its first season, and a significant part of that struggle is rooted in how it abandoned its season one premise — a time-traveling Ichabod Crane solving paranormal cases with a modern police officer (Beharie) — in favor of lengthy dives into turgid backstories and monster hunting.
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It's almost as if host James Corden's silly, staged tumble down the stage's luminous stairs was a portent of things to come: there were mic problems during Lady Gaga and Metallica's collaborative performance, and then there was the issues that plagued Adele's turgid, monstrously bad cover of George Michael's "Fastlove"—the issues themselves mirroring the mic problems that also torpedoed her performance during last year's ceremony.
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The novel opens in 1816, as Mary Shelley, on the cusp of writing what is to become her magnum opus, is holed up in a lakeside villa with her lover, Percy Bysshe; turgid stepsister, Claire; Claire's bit on the side, Lord Byron (who comes across as a 19th-century mansplainer extraordinaire); and Byron's doctor, the wannabe author Polidori (credited with writing the precursor to "Dracula").
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Alright, fair enough, this isn't an actual remix per se, but anyone who thinks that pairing the denim-clad granddaddies of turgid two-chord pub rock with the world's most absurdly successful arena-sized hardcore act—fronted by a bloke who emits all the potent sexuality of a thick erection quivering at the point of orgasm—is anything but a 10/10 idea needs to take a long hard look at themselves.
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The past few years have seen dance music creep further and further into ubiquity, and with LCD Soundsystem, Disclosure, and Calvin Harris all enjoying headlining slots on the main stage and four out of eight stages dedicated almost entirely to dance music, it's fair to say that the scales have tipped in favor of the untz untz untz—and that's even accounting for the heft of Guns n Roses wheezing through a turgid performance on the other side.
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Y'know, as he ploughs through a second turgid decade of journeying towards self-awareness — while continuing to be paralyzed, on the business, civic and, well, human being, front, by rank indecision about which people and points of view to listen to (Pro-Tip: If someone makes money selling lies and/or spreading hate you really shouldn't be letting them yank your operational chain) — leaving his platform (the would be "digital public square", as he kept referring to it today), incapable of upholding the healthy standards it claims to want to have.
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