Word: windedness
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The two short paragraphs in TIME (Oct. 30) on the British War Office action against long-winded and stilted writing are important. One of the great stumbling blocks in our society is the archaic, devious and unnatural way we use language in expressing our laws, our insurance policies, our leases...
"Nothing is more conducive to long-winded and stilted writing than the use of a formal, pedantic or polysyllabic substitute for the natural word or expression that first comes to mind. There will be occasions, relatively rare, when they will be wanted, quite legitimately, to convey a different shade of...
Old Spice has that long winded appeal. See Nai La Rocca for application details on stationery.
In his 24 years as a city official, Supervisor McSheehy took pride in his oratorical blockbusters. He boasted that one reporter was permanently assigned to collect each day's most glaring and improbable McSheehyisms. A belligerent, charming, oldfashioned, long-winded politician who loved the sound of his own voice...
¶ "The vagaries of German word order are not a sufficient reason for the vast gulf between the language which Germans use in the home and the jargon which German scholars write. Accepted standards of such scholarly composition are also the product of a social tradition hostile to the democratic...