Original sentence: Topographic Oceans is often held up as an example of all that was felt by many to be wrong with 1970s progressive rock, being described with adjectives such as 'directionless', 'pretentious', 'self-indulgent' and so forth
Edited sentence: Topographic Oceans was often held up as an example of all that was felt by many to be wrong with 1970s progressive rock, being described with adjectives such as 'directionless', 'pretentious', 'self-indulgent' and so forth