Word: prolixity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...other hand ... it errs in being the somewhat prolix promulgator of impertinent puns. Its jeux d'esprit are sometimes not in the best of taste. J. F. AGEE...
...attitude will often succeed where even the more intellectually gifted may fall. Naturally diffidence, undue self-consciousness, hesitance or monotony of speech, and other comparable characteristic are, if persistent checks on full mastery in teaching; not so much, so, however, as such things as over self-confidence conceit, and prolix fluidity of utterance. My own observation leads me to believe that if one has enthusiasm, selfless consecration, to his task, robustness of mental outlook, and keeps his mind on the fellow that he is trying to teach, diffidence, self-consciousness, and hesitance will in time yield place to power...
Assembly of the P.E.N.? Significant, Prolix...
...occasion, with its great variety of accents was momentous, if a trifle prolix. Not only that the foreign writers were present; but that I have never seen so representative a group of Americans assembled. From England, were May Sinclair, Rebecca West, Mrs. Dawson-Scott. From America, were Carl Van Doren, President of the American Centre; Robert Frost, poet and winner of this year's Pulitzer Prize; Alexander Black, Mary Austin, Gertrude Atherton, novelists; Edwin Arlington Robinson, poet. Below, at smaller tables, were countless others?playwrights such as Owen Davis and Zoe Akins; novelists such as Fannie Hurst and Harvey Fergusson...
...Beck said: "Of all courts that I have seen, it is the simplest in form and procedure." There are no formal or lengthy " briefs," although there is a printed summary of the essential facts and the legal points involved, which is called " the case." The arguments are often inordinately prolix. Mr. Beck quoted Lord Justice Atkin as saying:" English counsel too often speak for an hour without coming within hailing distance of the point in case...