longueur literary

There were longueurs during the course of the four and a half hours as well.

The scene is the high point of an often forced-seeming production with many longueurs.

Morgan couldn't write a longueur if you put a gun to his head.

There will inevitably be longueurs for both adults and children who attend this show.

Though the picture has its longueurs, its rhythms take hold and pull you in.

His 80-minute piece had its longueurs, but its lively bits, as well.

The result is a show of momentary vitalities and considerable longueurs.

His films raise longueurs to an art form.

For audiences it means laughs along with longueurs.

A postcard version would eliminate some of Kafka's longueurs.

Despite longueurs here and there, the cumulative power of "The Circle" is extraordinary.

As this bald summary suggests, the pages setting out the novel's premise have their longueurs.

The score shimmers with longueurs, and the dancers do battle with it.

To be sure, "Coming Soon" has its share of loose ends and its longueurs.

It is, even given its longueurs, muscular, insistent.

While the Scherzo and finale were driven hard, they churned effectively past potential longueurs.

It is less poignant than hokey, and its conversational longueurs test the reader's patience.

But if one is prepared for its longueurs, this is a remarkable theatrical experience, with only two more performances here, tonight and tomorrow.

Repetitions occasionally tire the ear; the two concertos have a few inevitable longueurs.

As for the core mystery, its resolution is bizarre enough to satisfy readers who survive the longueurs of the journey.

There, at least, you knew that the threat was ever-present Here it was the longueurs that killed.

The longueurs of Endymion I attributed wholly to myself.

She does so at some narrative peril; the exile makes for something of a longueur, and the Danish documentation takes us far afield.

Sometimes it loses focus (as in a longueur on Chechens living in Jordan).

There are, to be sure, longueurs.