Word: overlong
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...book are a bit dry. In this portion, the book reads more like a musty encyclopedia—defying the hip image conveyed by the young red-shirted man who poses with outstretched arms on the cover. I admit, I found myself feeling as though I were reading an overlong introduction to an Expos 20 paper. Indeed, I wondered when Shelby would move beyond setting up his argument and actually advance it by adding a new dimension to the historical facts...
...thing away from his experiences, which is that in some way Corps values are permanently his core values, no matter what else he may do in life. A humanist might argue that there is something pathetic in that. But the best war movies-and this one, despite its being overlong and repetitive, is among them-hold that men fight (or in this case, are ready to fight) not for causes, but to survive and to help their comrades do the same. In that simplicity lies salvation. Anything more complicated will likely drive you crazy or get you killed...
...Though overlong and somewhat predictable, the film manages to combine feel-good sentiments with funny remedies for low self-esteem. Rose may not feel comfortable in a thong, but sexual confidence abounds the minute she steps into her black stilettos, reminding every person who’s ever gained the “Freshman 15” or felt irredeemably unattractive, that everyone has something to flaunt...
Henry: Father Abraham, we’re quite possibly the slowest journeyers into the realm of manhood to have ever have crossed the overlong crevasse of De Onmogelijke Adolescentie, but dammit, we enjoy...
Director Gordon Davidson gives the play a bristling, relentless staging, with full awareness of the comic possibilities in Dick Cheney's glum realism and Donald Rumsfeld's chipper heedlessness--and of the shadowy hints of tragedy in Colin Powell's ambiguous role. Stuff Happens may be overlong, but it is often very good theater--especially when it is, as it were, on the record, re-creating the known absurdities (and apparent lies) of Establishment figures enabling a mysteriously driven leader. Power, in this play, does not exactly corrupt, but it does render people giddy with their essentially unchallenged ability...