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    action in 1910, and have been described by King as "pompous and long windedness". Waite's alterations to the rituals were partially inspired by his investigations...
    7 KB (932 words) - 13:30, 22 January 2024
  • I Not Stupid 3 (category Articles with short description)
    sons, is long, long-winded and, like a dreaded year-end exam, it gets stuck kinda in the same old loop", and that the long-windedness of the film feels...
    15 KB (1,803 words) - 01:30, 30 October 2024
  • Rooster Cogburn (character) (category Articles with short description)
    LaBoeuf's outrage, and irritatingly criticized LaBoeuf's tendency to talk long-windedly. Likewise, LaBoeuf patronized Cogburn for being a hopeless drunk who routinely...
    8 KB (1,033 words) - 18:36, 3 October 2024
  • Writing style (category Articles with short description)
    paragraphs may include the avoidance of incoherence, choppiness, or long-windedness, and rigid construction; and can be found in style guides. The following...
    18 KB (2,161 words) - 23:39, 26 April 2024
  • The Working Class Goes to Heaven (category Articles with short description)
    character, but criticised the "overabundance of themes and some long-windedness". Natalia Ginzburg in La Stampa accused the film of being superfluous...
    9 KB (903 words) - 03:08, 12 October 2024
  • Veedon Fleece (category Articles with short description)
    Weeks, "soothing, evocative late-night music", but suffers from his long-windedness and a second side highlighted only by "Bulbs". This album was followed...
    24 KB (2,976 words) - 09:31, 2 October 2024
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    Shaggy dog story (category Articles with short description)
    a comic device, the shaggy-dog story is related to unintentional long windedness, and the two are sometimes both referred to in the same way. While a shaggy-dog...
    20 KB (2,545 words) - 21:41, 25 September 2024
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    The Complete Plain Words (category Articles with short description)
    19th and early 20th centuries had a reputation for pomposity and long-windedness in its written communications. In Little Dorrit in the mid-1850s, Charles...
    26 KB (3,819 words) - 06:37, 10 October 2024
  • Gorgias (dialogue) (category Articles with short description)
    asks, he assures him that he is just as capable of brevity as of long-windedness (449c). Gorgias admits under Socrates' cross-examination that while rhetoricians...
    21 KB (3,158 words) - 08:55, 23 October 2024
  • Microcastle (category Articles with short description)
    the micro-structure. I want things to be a lot shorter, I don't want there to be as much long-windedness to it." The band premiered the album live at Brooklyn's...
    14 KB (986 words) - 05:49, 19 July 2024
  • Ludwig August Seeber (category Articles with short description)
    thoroughness and protected it against the possible reproach of "repulsive long-windedness". The reduction of ternary forms was later simplified by Gauss's successor...
    9 KB (731 words) - 04:25, 4 August 2024
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    Magha (poet) (category Articles with short description)
    However, Māgha follows Bhāravi's structure too closely, and the long-windedness of his descriptions loses the gravity and "weight of meaning" found in...
    10 KB (1,045 words) - 07:32, 15 October 2024
  • The Fox, the Flies and the Hedgehog (category Articles with short description)
    are repeated in Brooke Boothby's very short poetic version. William Somervile adapted the fable more long-windedly into "The wounded man and the swarm of...
    3 KB (391 words) - 02:42, 25 August 2024
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    The Bible and humor (category Articles with short description)
    out of a window and dies. This story may be a comment on Paul's long-windedness. Hyers says "Jesus freely used humor, irony and satire" and offers the...
    31 KB (4,283 words) - 06:29, 26 August 2024
  • No Man's Land (play) (category Articles with short description)
    talkative and somewhat disheveled guest, calling himself a poet, long-windedly explains how he is penetratingly perceptive, until he finally introduces...
    26 KB (3,232 words) - 19:21, 18 December 2023
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    Shishupala Vadha (category Articles with short description)
    However, Māgha follows Bhāravi's structure too closely, and the long-windedness of his descriptions loses the gravity and "weight of meaning" found in...
    33 KB (2,864 words) - 07:31, 15 October 2024
  • Criticism of the Quran (category Articles with short description)
    wearisome confused jumble, crude, incondite" with "endless iterations, long-windedness, entanglement" and "insupportable stupidity". Salomon Reinach wrote that...
    182 KB (22,884 words) - 12:20, 22 October 2024
  • Big Apple Rappin' (category Articles with short description)
    crowd bugging out on the dance floor, but the repetitiveness and long-windedness might make it a hard pill to swallow all at once." Track listing adapted...
    17 KB (1,802 words) - 20:58, 14 August 2023
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    Oliver Herford (category Articles with short description)
    best moderns. No violence, no obscenity, not even obscurity or that long-windedness which is the signet of the illustrious writer of today. An old-fashioned...
    11 KB (1,418 words) - 13:19, 24 September 2024
  • Impressions of Theophrastus Such (category Articles with short description)
    writing within Impressions of Theophrastus Such to be clever but its long-windedness and inability to evoke an emotional response renders little enjoyment...
    27 KB (3,841 words) - 14:20, 6 March 2024
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