turgidity

It hardly mattered, given the general turgidity of the playing.

It provides the turgidity by which the plant keeps itself in proper position.

He smiled slightly, glancing down at his own turgidity.

Restricted access to the water causes the plant to lose turgidity and wilt.

The latter contains fluid at a high pressure which maintains the turgidity and shape of the body.

As muscles lose tone and organs malfunction, a chalky turgidity sets in.

The Senate is deliberating the matter with extreme turgidity, deeming foreign affairs unimportant.

Healthy plant cells are turgid and plants rely on turgidity to maintain rigidity.

She is perhaps best when writing in short strokes, which reveal her clever employment of dramatic structures without lapsing into turgidity.

Limpid sententiousness is often more poisonous than ordinary turgidity.

Typically, nowadays, conductors try to offset the turgidity of Schumann's orchestrations with light, fleet performances.

In like fashion, my mystery lecture exposes the unconscious fear of obfuscation, turgidity, and other obstacles to clarity on the part of the speaker.

Its tight cropping and thin, form-modeling passages of paint show Chase's effort to move away from the turgidity of the Munich style.

If moisture decreases 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.

Ironically, it was Lera Auerbach's "Epilogue," a piece about exhaustion, that roused the evening from turgidity.

All an audience has to go by is the numbing turgidity of Mr. Clarvoe's prose: "It is high time someone taught God about justice."

As to the Finale, hardly Mahler's most inspired movement, listeners ought to be rewarded with an endurance medal if they can survive the 24 minutes of unrelieved turgidity.

He said he often explains: "With Bob, you can't get by with moments of laziness or failure of clarity or self-flattering turgidity.

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

He too had something marshy about him--the succulent moistness and turgidity, and the same brackish, nauseating effect of a marsh, where life and decaying are one.

What they say and write I have found to be characteristically stimulating and rewarding, not plagued by the turgidity that so often seems to be the norm in scholarly papers.

The New York Times assumed people would get so bored with the turgidity of their approach that no one could take it all in and realize they were rooting for the terrorists.

The score itself does not wear well: the "jazz" numbers, for all their liveliness, sound blandly reminiscent of Paul Whiteman, and Max's music has a late-Romantic turgidity.