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turgid leeches having had their fill of blood
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Only one Test has resulted in a draw since Stokes and McCullum joined forces on the back of a particularly turgid period during which England had won only one game in 17 under a far more conservative management duo of skipper Joe Root and coach Chris Silverwood.
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Paul Newman, New York Times, 12 July 2025
That was one of the weaknesses of Bryan Singer’s joyless and swiftly forgotten 2006 effort, Superman Returns, while by contrast, distancing itself so strenuously from the Donner model was the fatal flaw of Zack Snyder’s turgid Man of Steel in 2013, though that doom-and-gloom saga has its champions.
—David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 8 July 2025
After a frigid, turgid April (.147 average), everything’s starting to come to life again for one of the good dudes in the game.
—Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 19 June 2025
Before getting sunk by a turgid love story — the kind of cinematic dead zone Thalberg would have blue-penciled in the screenplay stage — The Last Tycoon provides a good sense of what a producer actually does.
—Thomas Doherty, HollywoodReporter, 20 Apr. 2025
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Paul Newman, New York Times, 12 July 2025
That was one of the weaknesses of Bryan Singer’s joyless and swiftly forgotten 2006 effort, Superman Returns, while by contrast, distancing itself so strenuously from the Donner model was the fatal flaw of Zack Snyder’s turgid Man of Steel in 2013, though that doom-and-gloom saga has its champions.
—David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 8 July 2025
After a frigid, turgid April (.147 average), everything’s starting to come to life again for one of the good dudes in the game.
—Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 19 June 2025
Before getting sunk by a turgid love story — the kind of cinematic dead zone Thalberg would have blue-penciled in the screenplay stage — The Last Tycoon provides a good sense of what a producer actually does.
—Thomas Doherty, HollywoodReporter, 20 Apr. 2025
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“Turgid.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/turgid. Accessed 25 Jul. 2025.
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turgid
adjective
tur·gid
ˈtər-jəd 
1
: being in a swollen state
2
: exhibiting turgor
a turgid plant cell
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