prolixity

But a modern idea here and there does not justify the play's prolixity.

There is something to be enjoyed in each, no doubt, but what prolixity!

He has unified the party through sheer force of prolixity.

Quite so; my point of comparison, as I stated, was the prolixity.

But this pageant of prolixity may have found its perfect audience.

He observed, ruefully, that he was given to a certain prolixity.

Note: when attempting to buy time, do not criticize the prolixity of your captor.

And all that prolixity reaches new heights as the town delves into the electoral process.

Black's prolixity is not confined to the page.

These two vast works of history were remarkable feats of prolixity.

Two rather formal names for it are prolixity and logorrhoea.

Notwithstanding its prolixity, this is an interesting work.

The date is out of such prolixity.

It was through my own drunken prolixity.

He was impatient of prolixity, cant, and the conventional standards of news importance.

But I must avoid prolixity, and leave the task of illustrating this by examples to the reader's own reflection.

And there's no prolixity here, believe me.

Prolixity is risky: a writer can take relish in perhaps more physical detail than is required.

We put up with prolixity and cryptoliterary hot air because something has reached deep into our insides.

The President acknowledged that his own prolixity was in part responsible for his inability to engage the public on difficult issues of social policy.

Mr. Clinton tamed his tendency toward prolixity in a speech that lasted just 22 minutes.

Prolixity, from Latin prolixus, "extended" can take many forms in writing.

Famous for his prolixity, Clinton proved here he could edit himself, a happy augury of discipline elsewhere.

And surely prolixity isn't too great a temptation when there's so little time and only two pages to fill.

Beyond prolixity, the two share another trait: longhand.