Word: longwindedness
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While the critics lash away (and rightly so) at Simone de Beauvoir's new book, Force of Circumstance, let us instead consider her indisputably great accomplishments. The Second Sex, de Beauvoir's feminist manifesto (first published in 1949), will be remembered with love by millions of people when that longwinded...
Fenway: L'AVVENTURA, the longwinded jewel of Italian director Michelangelo Antonini, unwinds the story of decadent Romans on a Sicilian Island and their search for one of their party who is missing. As good or better than La Dolce Vita.
FENWAY: Michelangelo Antioni's longwinded but polished look at a decadent cafe-society party on a remote island, L'AVVENTURA has received awards at the Cannes and London film festivals, and it deserved them. It has been often compared both in content and style to La Dolce Vita, and more...
In place of controversy, the editorialists have substituted philosophical tomes which read as if they were written for a blue book. Much as it might tingle the cars of a grader, the editorial page is hardly the place for longwinded attempts beginning: "From Machiavelli's Italy to Hitler's Germany...
Admittedly, these restrictions may slow committee action, and, in rare cases, subject investigators to longwinded protests. Put into effect, however, they will not only protect the witness, but also transform reckless inquisition into constructive investigation.