In the last 20 years, Lebrun has moved from drawings and wash paintings as direct and simple as those of the Renaissance to increasingly tumid and tormented shapes that at times .
The sex scenes in Body Heat are humid and tumid enough, but they are there to serve the symmetry of Kasdan's visual and narrative design.
Written in that vein, Love and Death in the American Novel is a tumid, quasi-psychoanalytic study in which Critic Fiedler tries to strip American literature down to a heavily .