wordage

It is not only the exact wordage, but the thought or idea.

Item: We've had one good author who could really produce wordage.

There would be some serious wordage with Andre on that subject.

"Up to that time the best wordage was something like eight thousand words," said Burbank.

"He forced his imagination to work, set himself a wordage routine.

With the wordage in the contract, we think we have a good case."

They can't possibly have even one-fifth the wordage of Pike.

You'll probably just press your fingers to your temples and out will come this mass of perfect wordage.

Perhaps the sensual wordage depicts an earthly closeness between the two images.

Fill in when someone's sick, or when there's a lot of extra wordage to be sent.

It was a simple introduction with minimum wordage.

There followed a quick burst of wordage, accompanied by gestures, as the fellow accounted for himself.

But even these few pieces of news, put together, made up no more than a small fraction of the wordage dealing with the Expedition.

It's a love song, with the story steeped in philosophical thoughts rather than June-moon wordage.

Yet Callahan stories occupy a little less than half the total wordage, just over 60% of the fiction content.

"Say, what is all this wordage about?"

Since a fax and E-mail would only add to the gusher of incoming wordage, I refuse to let them into the house.

Indeed the nature of Brand A takes some digging out of the mass of wordage.

He stammered indistinctly, searching for the correct wordage.

But this immense wordage bears the same relation to real literature that military music does to real music.

Wordage came pouring from the ticker.

I took out some excess wordage, but told him, 'Look, we all get edited and rewritten, no matter how long we've been around.' "

(1) Select a number of consecutive sentences whose combined wordage is not much under or not much over 100.

No, he wasn't trying to cheat me; Ted White was on a tight budget and honestly didn't know how to calculate wordage.

I was so glad to get the sale, after a dozen rejections, that I wasn't about to quibble about wordage.