Assertion: work | /r/HasProperty | cast in turgid dialogue form
Facets:
value: decidedly
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: The work is cast in a decidedly turgid dialogue form, perhaps in imitation of Galileo, perhaps merely as a relic of Boyle’s youthful literary proclivities; its chief value in its day, aside from its main message, was the wealth of chemical experiment that, like the “Essay on Nitre” showed the chemist how to employ corpuscular terms in chemical explanation and also presented new chemical facts.