• His focused glare was turgid with meaning elemental, undisclosed, sealed within his nature.

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  • Mr Greider, who journeyed far and wide, shares every tiresome detail in 528 turgid pages.

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  • His self-published 2005 novel, a turgid English-language romance spiced with commentary on Thailand, sold fewer than ten copies.

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  • But the match soon fizzled back to a turgid, one-paced affair littered with mis-placed passes and little sparkle.

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  • So turgid dross is great, because it offers the same sort of resistance as wading hip-deep through molasses?

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  • The era of the turgid, three-hour, presidential lecture broadcast live on state television, may not be quite over.

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  • He makes up for a lack of formal legal training by inhaling turgid court opinions and chatting up lawyers from both sides.

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  • Russell Crowe fights against Brian Helgeland's turgid script although, as the star and one of the producers, he must have been complicit in its development.

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  • Along with the invincibly pretentious and the implacably turgid, the Oedipal blather and the digital bats, "Batman Begins" summons up moments of great eloquence and power.

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  • But Leinster's pack continued to put Edinburgh under intense pressure in a turgid second half but fumbles just short of the line prevented a couple of tries.

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  • You come to hear Buffett's quips and Munger's turgid one-liners.

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  • Further, there would be a large number of young post-docs and researchers with metaphorical turgid erectile tissues ready to make a name for themselves overthrowing consensus (the dream of every doctoral student).

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  • Meanwhile, Zanu-PF continues to control the country's biggest-selling daily, the sycophantic and turgid Herald, along with all television and radio broadcasting, though some foreign radio stations manage to beam in programmes from abroad.

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  • With South Africa resuming 104 runs behind and nine wickets intact, it was either going to be a classic final day of intriguing action, or it was going to meander in rather turgid fashion.

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  • Granted, the Yankees are not a barrel of yuks, even in good times the culture of the team seems permanently trapped in the turgid middle of Alec Baldwin's "Glengarry Glen Ross" speech but humor must be welcomed amid stress.

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  • The media law has not been effective in addressing the genuine failures of the media in Hungary today - the protection of individuals from hate campaigns, the turgid tabloid torrent - but Mr Orban lost many friends when he tried to "make order" in the media.

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  • After the turgid fare of the previous two weeks it was a surprisingly open game, despite the wet conditions, but tries were at a premium and two Carter penalties, either side of a second Wilkinson kick, ensured the two sides went in level at the break.

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  • That journey started the day he was born on New Year's day 1992, the same day George Graham's "boring, boring" Arsenal were held to a turgid 1-1 draw by Wimbledon and in the same year that England finished bottom of their Euro 92 group and started their fateful 1994 World Cup qualifying campaign.

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