Here is the sample of [Whitman’s] obnubilate, incoherent, convulsive flub-drub.

Colonel Lucas: ... When you find the Colonel, infiltrate his team by whatever means available and terminate the Colonel's command. Willard: Terminate the Colonel? ... Civilian: Terminate with extreme prejudice.

The colonel and his sponsor made a queer contrast: Greystone [the sponsor] long and stringy, with a face that seemed as if a cold wind was eternally playing on it.

HTF did you manage that?!