[Experiment 6-2-6]

reached as a modus vivendi.

You know, this is a family site.. One shouldn't use words that offend..

Seriesly, why does one describe an article as "turgid"?

[moog]

Seriesly, why does one describe an article as "turgid"?

Because it is dig-(a) rut spelled backwards.

[BIRDS]

I didn't author that comment, use the word "turgid" to describe this piece, but I do agree that it is (Sullivan's article) turgid. As in, Sullivan goes into seductive mode about all things homosexual by pretending not to...it's the sly, misleading, and quite perverse (as in, "turgidly" so) problem that is the Sullivan personality. Next he'll write that "the gay culture invented Christmas" or something similarly self-pitying seeking and utterly distorted, in a pungent, turgid perspective of subtle manipulation into accepting the counter as truth. It isn't and never has been, nor never will be but it's amazing how many people are seduced into believing Sullivan's creepy nonsense.

[ExGeeEye]

turgid \TUR-jid\, adjective:
1. Swollen, bloated, puffed up; as, "a turgid limb."
2. Swelling in style or language; bombastic, pompous; as, "a turgid style of speaking."

Turgidity of prose may be in the eye of the reader. I personally found the tone "wistful", from the point of view of the writer; "alas for the poor dead days of happy faggots ambling through second-hand book shops."

Beyond that, meh...