prolix

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• With more than 50 million Larsson books sold world-wide, publishers scrambled to anoint his literary heir—preferably a political and prolix Scandinavian. Tattooed by Politics
• There was no sporting reference in that primitive debutant issue of 25 October 1961 – six corny homemade pages printed on yellow paper – but over the following half-century the magazine has significantly cast its wittily baleful eye over the prolix and self-important pomposities of modern professional sport and thank heaven for it. Fifty years of Private Eye's eccentric eye view of sport | Frank Keating
• The new work is far more prolix, diffuse, and ultimately self-indulgent.
• While JB's letter was heated and bare-knuckled, it landed many accurate punches, while your prolix retort was sadly disappointing.
• Will Self indulged in a prolix exchange on the subject of branding; Mark Dolan of Balls of Steel hosted a chat show; and comedian Adam Riches challenged the crowd to Swingball. The art of banter: 'It's like a boxing match. It can be bruising'
• Many writers struggled against the era's compulsive reserve not just with racy subject matter but also with compulsive prolixity.
• Many is the time, as the weariness of my spirit witnesseth, that I have heard Sah-luma rehearse, -- but never in all my experience of his prolix multiloquence, hath he given utterance to such a senseless jingle-jangle of verse-jargon as to-night! Ardath
• She never particularly cared for them, finding the first too rigid and artificial, the second too prolix and maudlin.
• God (saith [6779] Fulgentius) is delighted in the conversion of a sinner, he sets no time; prolixitas temporis Deo non praejudicat, aut gravitas peccati, deferring of time or grievousness of sin, do not prejudicate his grace, things past and to come are all one to Him, as present: 'tis never too late to repent. Anatomy of Melancholy
• The speeches of Oliver Cromwell have a formidable reputation for prolixity, confusion, and excessive tediousness; yet we have not, for our own part, found these volumes to be of the dry and scarce readable description which their title foreboded; and we would caution others not to be deterred by any fears of this nature from their perusal. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847