overlong

Example Sentences

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Aside from being terribly boring and overlong, “Cars” represents Pixar’s first blatant step toward becoming a capitalist behemoth, an animation studio that would continue to prioritize money over media to this day.

From Salon • Jun. 6, 2026

Although the score, by the rock band the Rescues, is a cut above most Broadway pop, the musical is nevertheless overscaled, over-earnest and overlong.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 28, 2026

I wish the same could be said about his overlong dream-logic interludes, which tantalize as peeks into Frankie’s psyche but eventually feel like style filler.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 11, 2025

The momentum was frequently torpedoed by waffly, overlong video interludes - but Usher's magnetic stage presence just about held the concert together.

From BBC • Mar. 30, 2025

Last night, we et Squab — which he left overlong on the Spit — we might as well have dined on Sandals — and I saw him cease chewing.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson