Usage examples of "turgid" in English with translation to Russian

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Let's not get into one of those turgid, categorical imperative arguments. Давай не погружаться в эти напыщенные категорические, безапелляционные аргументы.

Only communist rulers could force millions of people to buy their complete works, filled with wooden ideas written in turgid prose. Только коммунистические правители могли заставлять миллионы людей покупать полные сборники своих работ, заполненных неживыми идеями и написанных напыщенной прозой.

In more turgid prose, but closer to the truth, was the father of modern capitalism, Adam Smith, and he said this. Пафосной прозой, более близкой к правде, высказался отец современного капитализма, Адам Смит.

The brief effort at a rhetorical gesture by some in the Obama administration who floated the turgid phrase “strategic reassurance” was risible and did not last. Попытки кого-то из сотрудников администрации Обамы сделать риторический шаг навстречу Китаю, пустив в оборот помпезную фразу о «стратегической уверенности», не привели ни к чему и быстро прекратились.

Kolnai seems to have read every turgid treatise – most written by third-rate thinkers – extolling the martial, self-sacrificing, blood-and-soil virtues of the Land of Heroes, and damning the materialistic, liberal democratic, bourgeois societies in the Lands of Merchants (that is to say, the West). Колнаи прочёл, кажется, абсолютно все высокопарные трактаты, написанные в большинстве случаев третьеразрядными мыслителями, в которых превозносились ценности Земли героев – воинственность, самопожертвование, «кровь и почва», а материалистические, либерально-демократические, буржуазные общества Земли торговцев (то есть Запада) проклинались.

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