long-windedness
Example Sentences
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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
The latter applies to Abraham Ibn Ezra, who might have said with the poet, "I avoid long-windedness, and I become obscure."
From Rashi by Szold, Adele
