longish

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As do most of the main characters, Nicholson gets a longish theatrical monologue to remind us that there’s a hurting person in there somewhere, and, really, she does a great job of it.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 28, 2025

When the original One City, One Book program premiered in 1998, it bore the longish but highly descriptive and aspirational title, “If All Seattle Read the Same Book.”

From Seattle Times • Sep. 15, 2022

The novel was turned into a mini-series for French television in 1966, but the breathless sprawl of a longish feature film may serve it better.

From New York Times • Jun. 9, 2022

To show what I mean, let me quote a longish paragraph from her latest book, “Esmond and Ilia,” a double portrait of her parents during the first years of their marriage.

From Washington Post • Jun. 8, 2022

Luce in his leather chair, with his longish hair and ankle boots, was the kind of adult a kid might open up to.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides