lengthiness

Example Sentences

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The lengthiness of that process aside, there isn’t the faintest hint of legal violations — nor does the New York Post’s story suggest as much.

From Washington Post • Aug. 11, 2022

And often lengthiness can be the absolute soul of wit, as in Proust or Dickens.

From New York Times • Feb. 21, 2019

Even the lengthiness weights and certifies a story that, if told concisely, could merely seem lurid.

From Time Magazine Archive

He highly approved of brevity in preaching, and used to say that the chief fault of the preachers of the day was lengthiness.

From The Spirit of St. Francis de Sales by Camus, Jean Pierre

His allegiance to Balzac remained unshaken, though he was conscious of lengthiness when he read him aloud.

From Life and Letters of Robert Browning by Browning, Robert