"lengthy" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Equally off-putting, if no less well-intentioned, are Mr. Simmons's lengthy digressions on vegetarianism and yoga.
- I knew this was going to be a lengthy digression.
- Despite its short length, the work includes fairly lengthy digressions, intended to have exemplary value.
- The second letter continued the discussion of ethnography and related the history of Spanish involvement, including a lengthy digression on the Nootka Crisis.
- The way these threads resurface to create a larger tapestry makes it much easier to enjoy the book's lengthy digressions.
- It was addressed to the Parlement of Dijon, and was written largely from a legalistic point of view, though with lengthy digressions, for example on astrology.
- Naturally, there were lengthy digressions about the books Beryl had written and the sources of her ideas.
- Such glimpses of Custer are decidedly intermittent in Ms. Barnett's book, which is padded with lengthy and often completely gratuitious digressions that take an almost stream-of-consciousness form.
- As the themes of the courtly epic had in the meantime become common knowledge for his German listeners, he was able to avoid lengthy explanatory digressions.
- He introduces a lengthy digression on "a character without a name" whose fetish is retarded women.
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