Word: overlong
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...beyond that, the pickings were pretty dismal. The opening sequence, implicitly indicting the British for the whole problem, was too cute and facile. The time spent in Meah Shearim, the Jerusalem quarter of the ultra-orthodox, and in anti-Zionist Naturei Carta, was overlong and boring, chiefly because it had no point, despite the implied connection with a voice-over talking about the anti-godliness of early Zionism. And all the little shots of Tel Aviv and Jerusalem which so delighted me must have been a crashing bore for those in the audience who had never visited Israel. The photography...
...rambling, overlong style has left many of Big John's audiences a bit heavy-lidded by the end of the evening, but by and large, Republicans seem enthusiastic about their newest convert. "The people I talked to before the meeting were skeptical because he's a short-term Republican," said Architect Richard Peters of Lawrence, Kans. "But they're damned glad now that he's a Republican...
...book also has quite a lot of filler, particularly in an overlong chronology of the '60s. But throughout there's a healthy sense that music matters even when it seems not to: the CIO may have stopped singing for awhile, but "Which Side Are You On?" helped Boston University's students stop a Marine recruiter only last month. Like fireflies, Seeger says, such songs light up the night...
...guitar playing--I've always thought it the weakest of the instruments he plays--because his wah-wah lead is way back in the song's mix. Chris Wood appears only once, with a skirling flute phrase and then fades into the background during the song's overlong one-riff finale...
...tastes like cork or oak), "flinty" (dry and sharp), "full-bodied" (thick, robust), and "maderise" (from Madeira; turned slightly brown with age, past the prime). They can be "petillant" (slightly sparkling or effervescent), "thin" (deficient in alcohol or body, watery), or "woody" (with an overbearing taste of oak from overlong storage in the cask...