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• He furnishes handholds and issues both exhortations and admonitions: Readers are told, in effect, that there will be passages of extreme difficulty and complexity (and of plain longueur), but they are simultaneously assured that the effort will be rewarding and worthwhile. Literary Companion
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• It's a fast-moving, hip and cynical tale with no longueurs and has a real cinematic sweep to go with its expert choreography.
• Philip Roth, in a 1973 New York Times essay on baseball, called "its longueurs and thrills, its spaciousness, its suspensefulness, its heroics, its nuances, its lingo, its 'characters,' its peculiarly hypnotic tedium. NYT > Home Page
• It's to be expected, of course, that in a film of this length and ambition there will be missteps and longueurs.
• That's how opera fans go about their business, collecting wayside works for the inevitable Wagnerian longueurs.
• Moi je mettrais une bonne note a c'te film meme s'il traine en longueur et qu'effectivement a la fin c tellement gore qu'on lache deux sec 'le scenar' pour se concentrer sur la remontée de son pitit dej '! Pinku-tk Diary Entry
• Even if there are occasional longueurs, the show's visual wit and intelligence remain impressive.
• The work has its longueurs, but it is worth waiting around for this inexpressibly limpid and lovely solo.
• Martina Hingis, welcoming Sharapova's return to form after a disturbing longueur, described her this week as "a great competitor, so strong in the mind". Reborn Maria Sharapova gunning for career grand slam at French Open