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Quotes About Turgid

The political scene is already so turgid, it doesn't need more of that from me.
~ William Shatner
My prose is turgid, it just hasn't got any energy.
~ Carol Ann Duffy
The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms.
~ James F. Cooper
Too many memoirs focus on childhoods and it's a bit turgid.
~ John Cooper Clarke
Heresy is usually quite sophisticated, actually has a meaning, and is to be taken very seriously. It is therefore to be carefully distinguished from turgid, pretentious, badly-written Bullsgeshichte, to use the technical German theological term.
~ Carl Trueman