Einstein fares as badly under Father Callahan's rhetoric as he does under the turgid prose of Gillette.

Inside the turgid prose, important questions are struggling to get out.

Common symptoms include turgid prose and microscopic narrowness of topic.

It is written in a dense and turgid prose interspersed with military jargon and technical terms.

These insufferable allegorical groups sprawling round a dead hero are of the same class as the pompous and turgid prose of Doctor Johnson.

Gee makes the usual obeisance to Darwin, despite his lack of patience with the "Origin of Species" because of its "turgid" prose and "lengthy" sentences.

Much energy and much turgid prose are devoted to describing the nature of "vocal ecology," comparing the learning of vocal skills with the work of an organic farmer.

Others gripe that Dyson recycles her previously published magazine articles, writes turgid prose, and puts too much faith in the free market.

Its critics are mostly second-rate novelists who write turgid prose and "rave about demonstrably bad books."

But Harwood's style was turgid prose.