Word: overlong
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...studied inarticulacy--a consistent deverbalization--which marks good and bad songs alike on Blonde on Blonde. Emblematic of the present wordlessness stands the cardboard jacket, filled with snapshots where past albums abounded in liner notes (often awkward but sometimes incisive). The songs themselves, by profuse blues repetitions and by overlong choruses, generally blunt the listener's attention to the language of the songs...
...astonished to read in your report [July 8] on the Dominican Republic inauguration that Vice President Humphrey "arrived on the run, flushed and hurried over an overlong chat with Peace Corps workers." As a member of the U.S. delegation in Santo Domingo, I accompanied the Vice President to the ceremony in the Congress building. Our party was one of the first to arrive. The arrival was calm, unflushed and unhurried...
White-suited diplomats filed into Santo Domingo's glittering National Palace. U.S. Vice President Hubert Humphrey arrived on the run, flushed and hurried over an overlong chat with Peace Corps workers. A few moments later, a 21-gun salute pounded out over the Caribbean and rolled across the Santo Domingo coastal plain, signaling to Dominicans the inauguration of the country's first constitutional President since the military toppled Leftist Juan Bosch in 1963. "I have not come here to put on the uniform and boots of Trujillo," President Joaquín Balaguer told his inauguration audience. "I have...
Rigid curriculum, formal teaching methods, an overlong lecture schedule -little about their studies seemed to please the 25 students who presented their complaints to Dr. Robert H. Ebert, dean of Harvard's prestigious medical school...
...facts dilute a good argument. He claims that last year's Watts riot "probably could have been contained by police restraint," though Watts really boiled over only after Los Angeles police pulled out of the ghetto for hours in hopes that it would cool off. Similarly, in an overlong section on the failings of U.S. policy in Africa, he mentions "the recent visit" of Red China's Mao Tse-tung, though Mao has never been near the place. But Farmer's talent, after all, lies in leading, not writing...