as in swollen
enlarged beyond normal from internal pressure
turgid leeches having had their fill of blood
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Overhaul turgid cumbersome performance reporting to report performance in a clear dashboard with visuals to provide better public understanding of investment performance.
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Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Hartford Courant, 7 Apr. 2024
Damien is a reluctant Antichrist who takes ten turgid episodes to kind of maybe embrace his inherent evil in this single-season A&E TV series created by The Walking Dead’s Glen Mazzara.
—Josh Bell, Vulture, 5 Apr. 2024
But, somehow, Clarkson found the faint sliver of light in that otherwise dim forest of turgid inner turmoil.
—Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 7 May 2024
It was dismissed as melodrama and a history lesson, more an outburst than a play, neither art nor entertainment, as mechanical, medicinal, didactic, hermetic, clumsy, creaky, icy, turgid, empty, and labored—some of which remains true.
—Stacy Schiff, The New York Review of Books, 22 Dec. 2022
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Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Hartford Courant, 7 Apr. 2024
Damien is a reluctant Antichrist who takes ten turgid episodes to kind of maybe embrace his inherent evil in this single-season A&E TV series created by The Walking Dead’s Glen Mazzara.
—Josh Bell, Vulture, 5 Apr. 2024
But, somehow, Clarkson found the faint sliver of light in that otherwise dim forest of turgid inner turmoil.
—Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 7 May 2024
It was dismissed as melodrama and a history lesson, more an outburst than a play, neither art nor entertainment, as mechanical, medicinal, didactic, hermetic, clumsy, creaky, icy, turgid, empty, and labored—some of which remains true.
—Stacy Schiff, The New York Review of Books, 22 Dec. 2022
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