shaggy dog story
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In an interview last year, Prince Harry and his fiancee, American actress Meghan Markle, told their own shaggy dog story.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 18, 2018
What results is a sequence of face-offs, each of which feels as if it might make its own play without adding up to much by the end of the questing, shaggy dog story on view.
From New York Times ● Sep. 8, 2017
Shot on 35MM and featuring a score that similarly evokes a bygone era of filmmaking, “Inherent Vice” is a shaggy dog story of the most scruffy kind.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2014
The Guardian called it "" but the Express declared the "shaggy dog story" was ultimately "baffling".
From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2013
He was beginning to feel like a character in a shaggy dog story.
From Off Course by Kelly Freas
This particular shaggy-dog story gets very shaggy, and at times it’s not clear whether Buckley himself knows where he wants the narrative to go.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 4, 2022
“Licorice Pizza”: Paul Thomas Anderson’s shaggy-dog story of self-discovery in ’70s San Fernando Valley feels to me like a loose, easy-breathing culmination for Anderson, a virtuoso filmmaker here at his most tender and organic.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 8, 2021
I wouldn’t have dared say that out loud, but even then, I think, I somehow sensed that this was a climax that wouldn’t provide much resolution, a space-age shaggy-dog story.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 18, 2019
The moth joke is not a shaggy-dog story, one of those ambling anecdotes with no point.
From New York Times ● Aug. 30, 2018
You heard that big, long shaggy-dog story about exactly what happened and where everybody was supposed to have been at the time.
From Murder in the Gunroom by H. Beam Piper
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