Meanings of turgidity in English

The turgidity and luxuriance of art gradually passed into tameness and poverty.

The turgidity of the source material ultimately dragged Dragon Tattoo into the slush.

His odes have the turgidity without the grandeur of Gray's.

But the tendency to turgidity may proceed from debility alone.

There is nothing in them excessive, nothing overwrought, nothing strained into turgidity, obscurity, and nonsense.

In some of the provers active inflammatory congestion of the right lung ensued, with turgidity of the liver.

The phenomenal success to which he subsequently rose was characteristic of the prevailing turgidity and confusion of the popular mind.

Or they represent and share the turgidity of the minds they interpret, like some of the work of Walt Whitman.

Carlyle's weakest works are those that lose the honest simplicity of its style in a forced turgidity and affected roughness.

In his estimation, turgidity passes for eloquence, and simplicity is but another name for that which is weak and unmeaning.

All plant tissues are mostly water, and require a humid atmosphere to avoid drying out, losing turgidity, and damaging their internal systems.

No one can for a moment doubt that her feelings are real, but neither can the turgidity and bombast of her language be denied.

Turgidity was absent, but at a price.

He paced the floor in impatience while Mr. Turgidity blew the clouds of dust from precedent after precedent.

The turgidity and luxuriance of art gradually passed into tameness and poverty.

The turgidity of the source material ultimately dragged Dragon Tattoo into the slush.