long-windedness
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Paradoxically, a 560-page memoir is a safe space in which at last no one can accuse him of long-windedness.
From Washington Post • Oct. 30, 2022
He generally resisted the epic long-windedness of nineteenth-century German prose, but here he makes an exception as he verbally acts out the condition of universal flux.
From The New Yorker • Oct. 7, 2019
Hall and Oates then took the stage for speeches so brief they seemed to be a shot at the E Street Band’s long-windedness.
From Time • Apr. 11, 2014
Will he gain the same obedient reaction during PMQs, where he has criticised many backbench MPs for the long-windedness of their inquiries?
From BBC • Jan. 26, 2011
He took, perhaps, some of his machinery from the Aminta of Tasso and from the other Italian pastorals, but he emulated the Amadis in the interminable series of adventures and the long-windedness of his treatment.
From A Short History of French Literature by Saintsbury, George
