| 单词 | verbosity |
| 例句 | As Adam Freedman points out in his book on legalese, “What distinguishes legal boilerplate is its combination of archaic terminology and frenzied verbosity, as though it were written by a medieval scribe on crack.” The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z What Disraeli said of Gladstone was also true of Churchill: he was “a sophisticated rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity.” Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z No surprise, this never-elected amateur gunslinger invites ridicule at every turn: his verbosity tries to compensate for ignorance by recycling word tics like an old, scratched LP. What “unity” with Trump means: For Republicans, winning is everything, principles are swept away and hypocrisy reigns 2016-05-22T04:00:00Z As in his radio days, he took questions and comments from callers, who often had to be cut off for verbosity or for using obscenities. Larry King, Breezy Interviewer of the Famous and Infamous, Dies at 87 2021-01-23T05:00:00Z While waiting it often allows its characters to shiver and tremble unaccountably in summer weather and succumbs to the occasional fit of verbosity. Books of The Times: Two Refreshing Splashes of Summertime Homicide 2011-07-03T21:37:35Z Bob is simple and kind, and understands the economics of camming: camgirls, no matter who they are, are moved by generosity, not verbosity. From Harvard to webcam girl 2014-02-10T01:00:00Z Awash in desultory emotionalism, the play offers a plethora of actors’ moments for its three accomplished performers, who manage — almost — to connect the dots of Shanley’s rambling verbosity. Cast helps John Patrick Shanley's 'Dreamer' from being a complete snooze 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z It goes on far too long, and its verbosity robs the music of its impact by breaking into it too frequently. Amsterdam Sinfonietta ? review 2011-03-21T18:28:06Z “These days I wear my body like an uninvited guest,” she sings on the verse, her fleet-footed verbosity conveying a sense of itchy anxiety. Shakira and Ozuna’s Breakup Bachata, and 7 More New Songs 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z Their outsize verbosity and precociousness is like a freakish clown-show version of the subdued mumbling of the teenagers on “Friday Night Lights.” Riff: How Football Players Got Trounced by ?Glee? 2011-06-03T12:00:00Z Mr. Carlson describes her management style as “dictatorial” and her manner of speaking as “staccato verbosity.” ‘Marissa Mayer and the Fight to Save Yahoo!’ by Nicholas Carlson 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z Scorsese’s ferocious verbosity hasn’t dimmed even slightly with age. Scorsese, De Niro and Pacino on time and ‘The Irishman’ 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z To cut the stream-of-consciousness verbosity, as an opera libretto must, is to leave exposed the fragility of the play’s central, rather standard-issue melodramas. Review: ‘Angels in America,’ Carved to the Bone and Into an Opera 2017-06-11T04:00:00Z They know how to deliver the kind of stilted, world-weary verbosity that somehow quickens the pulses of this genre’s readers. Books of The Times: Stoking the Fire Larsson Ignited 2011-01-05T23:00:14Z “My verbosity got in the way,” he apologizes in the coda, explaining why he couldn’t fit his whole life in one book. Review | Andrew Lloyd Webber sings a happy tune in his memoir, ‘Unmasked’ 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z Leigh catches on to her character’s verbosity and screams out from there; it’s another fascinating and ice-cold performance. Stiller, Falco pace 'House of Blues Leaves' 2011-04-26T00:31:01Z Or perhaps it's a matter of the principal characters having less dialogue, although the verbosity of Bob Odenkirk's con man has ramped up in recent episodes as his various personalities messily squish together. Kim, Jimmy and the moral sandwich-making of "Better Call Saul" 2022-08-09T04:00:00Z At a reception after the event, there were canapés, “Centenary Sidecars” and jokes about the verbosity of writers. At PEN America, a Complicated Centennial for Free Speech 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z Virgil is not known for verbosity; he doesn’t need pruning. David Ferry Won the National Book Award in His 80s. In His 90s, He Has Translated Virgil. 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z And he hasn’t lost his salesman’s bravado, his lawyerly verbosity or his passion for theater, even though his show has faced many challenges, including questions about its financial health. A Producer Seeks a Broadway Comeback, Mired in Offstage Drama 2022-04-01T04:00:00Z Mr. D’Agostino, who hails from Staten Island, has earned a reputation for intensity and verbosity, at least within the shrewdly messy parameters of his music. Albums From Terius Nash, George Strait, Cymbals Eat Guitars 2011-09-05T22:44:58Z Their verbosity annoys Zillah, who wants to intervene as a ghost from the future and rouse Agnes, in particular, from her inertia. ‘A Bright Room Called Day’ Review: The Playwright Enters the Play 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z Tomlinson is the great heart of the movie, the warmth to Andrews’ splinter of ice, who, while sustaining the film’s line in jokey verbosity, still manages to be moving. Mary Poppins: not sugary, but sharp and subversive – on the page and the screen 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z Morality, physics, theology, self-deception and grace pass between them, in halting verbosity and these friezes of guilt and incrimination. Best Performances of 2019 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z And we’re not asking for the next “American Pie” — one thing we’ve learned from Of Montreal and the acts on the Fueled by Ramen label is that maximum verbosity does not necessarily equal maximum payoff. An Open Letter to Rihanna: Please Use More Words 2012-10-18T12:00:15Z In Spielberg's lengthy Lincoln, the president explains an instance of verbosity with these words: "As the preacher said, 'I could write shorter sermons, but once I start I get too lazy to stop'." Is The Hobbit simply too long? 2012-12-12T16:15:00Z It's that incredible thing that I'm sure is John Williams, where it's like, "OK, how do we communicate? We have to communicate on a musical level if we don't understand the verbosity of another species." "The Big Door Prize's" Chris O'Dowd: "Being Irish has been nothing but an absolute gift" 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z The verbosity of the lyrics, along with the minimalism of the music, makes the experience of listening to the record approximate to digesting a collection of short stories. Bruce Springsteen's "The Ghost of Tom Joad," then and now 2017-09-16T04:00:00Z For all its southern-Gothic verbosity, the show was lean and mean most of the way through. “True Detective” returns with brooding drama, a bit overstuffed but promising 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z His colleagues point to his sharp sense of humor and casual verbosity, a gift of gab common to Leonard characters. Television: Timothy Olyphant in Elmore Leonard?s ?Justified? on FX 2012-01-05T12:00:00Z The poet using the form walks a fine line between verbosity and faux profundity. Poster poems: Prose poems 2011-08-12T09:28:45Z He shares Wolfe’s love affair with memory and passionate hunger for experience without Wolfe’s windy verbosity — or Wolfe’s way, as Mr. Ebert puts it, of “uttering wild goat cries to the moon.” Books of The Times: ?Life Itself? by Roger Ebert - Review 2011-09-22T21:53:06Z Lost in a haze of bitter nostalgia and verbosity ... Tonight's TV highlights: Unreported World 2010-10-07T23:05:00Z The book is twice as long as it need be – and none the better for its cheerful verbosity. Shooting Victoria by Paul Thomas Murphy – review 2013-01-11T10:00:01Z After all, verbosity is not the soul of wit. John Oliver and Clickhole Take Fake News in Opposite Directions 2014-07-15T04:00:00Z I’m naturally shy but dodge it with reflexive verbosity. My terrifying chemical storms 2014-01-12T21:00:00Z Critics often poke fun at Brand's verbosity, implying it is a symptom of an uneducated mind, but Russell laughs at himself on this score, too. Russell Brand: messiah or very naughty boy? 2013-06-15T23:05:40Z The people in Hawley's version of Kansas City's criminal underworld and its adjacent parts are men and women – men, mostly – naturally given to grandiloquent speech and extensive verbosity. In "Fargo," comedian Chris Rock gets dramatic as a mob boss whose weapon of choice is the monologue 2020-09-27T04:00:00Z Trump answered questions with such verbosity at the April deposition — veering from evasiveness to bluster to filibuster at times — that one lawyer worried his seven hours of sworn testimony could go until midnight. Trump blasts N.Y. fraud case, claims he prevented nuclear war in newly released transcript 2023-08-30T04:00:00Z It will also let developers decide their AI's style of tone and verbosity. Explainer: What is Microsoft-backed OpenAI's GPT-4 model? 2023-03-15T04:00:00Z But it’s a shame when the character’s verbosity distracts from the trilogy’s other achievements: history rendered with immediacy, with tones and perspectives sometimes engagingly varied. Review | A haunting portrait of Emmett Till comes full circle in ‘Till Trilogy’ 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z On this page, you can customize various features of Narrator, including speed, pitch, volume, verbosity, and navigation mode. How to use the Windows 11 screen reader 2022-08-23T04:00:00Z This includes options for verbosity, shortcuts, passwords, and more. How to enable Android’s TalkBack screen reader 2022-07-12T04:00:00Z Dobbs suffers massively from the pandemic disease of the high court: verbosity. Opinion | In Dobbs, these untruths are self-evident 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z He was a big deal, and he deserved to be a big deal, but like many of Wallace’s characters, for all my verbosity I’m not sure I could explain it. A newish David Foster Wallace novella prompts the question: What made him great? 2022-04-01T04:00:00Z Manning, well known for his verbosity, promises he will be under that maximum. Hall of Fame inductions roster is something to marvel at 2021-08-06T04:00:00Z With their packed schedules, relish for meeting as many people as possible and natural tendency toward verbosity, most presidential candidates rarely get anywhere, or do anything, on time. Election 2020 Today: Trump vs. science, Biden takes his time 2020-09-23T04:00:00Z Scorsese’s ferocious verbosity hasn’t dimmed even slightly with age. Scorsese, De Niro and Pacino on time and ‘The Irishman’ 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z And the stutter, the experts say, may contribute to his renowned verbosity. Joe Biden's childhood struggle with a stutter: How he overcame it and how it shaped him 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z He found his tribe in politics, a profession where his verbosity was an asset. ‘Order! Order!’: Parliament Speaker Is Brexit’s Surprise Star and Villain 2019-01-19T05:00:00Z Mulroney again conjures up the verbosity of Iceland's Prime Minister, saying that “he went on and on, and George Bush was making note after note after note.” Taking Notes on History at the State Funeral of George H. W. Bush 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z Bounty hunters and bondsmen tend to be more figures of action than verbosity. Is it curtains for Hollywood's bail bondsmen and bounty hunters? 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z The New Statesman's Catherine Taylor said every character in the novel "crackles with intellectual verve and droll verbosity". Novel set in Troubles wins Man Booker Prize 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z He seems to compensate for thin material with flowery language and flagrant verbosity. A peek inside the real North Korea — sort of — in 'See You Again in Pyongyang' 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z It said Page’s thesis was “characterised by considerable repetition, verbosity and vagueness of expression”, failed to meet the criteria required for a PhD, and needed “substantial revision”. Ex-Trump adviser Carter Page accused academics who twice failed his PhD of bias 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z Politicians, with their habitual verbosity, under the constraint of an interviewer’s questions, find these clichés useful in filling the gaps in their nonthinking. If You’ve Heard One Cliché, You’ve Heard Them All 2017-12-13T05:00:00Z Too often, they abandon rhetorical self-restraint for inflammatory verbosity. Opinion | Everyone is mad at everyone 2017-07-02T04:00:00Z But often his verbosity is irrelevant to his job responsibilities. Editorial Roundup: Excerpts from recent editorials 2017-06-28T04:00:00Z Like the 419 scammers and the love-struck lads, many Nigerian government officials choose the path of verbosity, expansiveness and repetition in their press releases. Letters from Africa: Nigeria's art of flowery language - BBC News 2017-02-04T05:00:00Z Fortunately, though, the final veto on verbosity is held by readers, who can exercise it simply by stopping in midsentence. Editorials from around New England 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z Lawson has shiny tussled hair and a quick verbosity, and he tends to offer thoughts with what might be called the opposite of circumspection. For 'War Dogs' writer Guy Lawson, a persona worthy of his tales 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z As for his verbosity before the footbridge kiss, it returned three years later when he proposed. Before Taking the Plunge, Letting the Club Play Cupid 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z He was elected to the federal parliament in 1953, where his verbosity soon earned him the nickname "Schmidt-Schnauze" - Big Mouth Schmidt. Helmut Schmidt: West Germany's Cold War master of realpolitik - BBC News 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z But most entertaining and essential to the character is Trumbo’s rich, ever-flowing wit and verbosity. Cranston knocks on post-‘Breaking Bad’ career with ‘Trumbo’ 2015-09-14T04:00:00Z “Anyone can say anything … such is his verbosity that when he talks about the valuation of his golf clubs he talks louder than anyone else, and he thinks that makes it true.” Donald Trump’s Troubles Are Just Beginning 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z Before it’s all said and done, maybe I’ll even eclipse the verbosity of our own Paul Tassi and his hundreds of thousands of words on Destiny. Everything You Need To Know Before Buying And Playing 'Elite: Dangerous' 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z What the book lacks in clarity because of his verbosity and fondness for overly long comedic tangents, it gains in its commitment to radical progressive politics. Russell Brand's Revolution: panel verdict 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z His brothers joke about Sutter's lack of verbosity at his famously short Kings news conferences. Kings Coach Darryl Sutter is never down on the farm 2014-08-23T04:00:00Z Simple – Avoid words such as eschewing and verbosity! Potato Salad Kickstarter Campaign Raises Over $41,000 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z His exuberant verbosity suggests that even if the game was in a commercial break, he was still talking. TV Sports: In N.B.A. Playoff Games, Final Seconds Can Feel Like an Eternity 2014-05-11T19:15:13Z Likewise, Mann’s introspection inspires him to dial back his punk verbosity on tracks like “Volunteers of America” and, most notably, “Milwaukee”. REVIEW: Aimee Mann and Ted Leo Harmonize Well as The Both 2014-04-18T15:58:03Z Ironically Lord Kinnock himself had a reputation for verbosity, but it's not clear whether this is connected to the determination of officials to write succinct briefing papers for him. 'Succinct' briefings are kept secret 2014-02-03T09:56:37Z There are words never ordinarily spoken, verbosity often straight out of left field. India Ink: Deracinating the Evidence, in the Language of the Courts 2013-12-23T11:42:45Z Entrepreneurs’ would be well served to craft similarly straight-forward calls to action, while eschewing verbosity. Potato Salad Kickstarter Campaign Raises Over $41,000 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z Two statements in two days counts as an outbreak of verbosity. Credit crunch confusion sends China's stock market on wild ride 2013-06-25T17:03:01Z However, lovers of verbosity - already embattled in an era of text-speak and, worse, emoticons - will despair. So long, long words? 2013-06-04T11:51:53Z We'll be offering you some searing analysis, crucial reporting on the smells here on the show floor, pointless verbosity and "humour". Microsoft's E3 2012 conference: live coverage 2012-06-04T16:27:00Z His wife, my father's sister, was tall, sparely built, and somewhat inclined to verbosity. A Lad of Grit A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea in Restoration Times 2012-04-21T02:00:23.363Z Of this last trait of verbosity I have said nothing, for the reason that it is too notorious to need mentioning. Shelburne Essays, Third Series 2012-04-16T02:00:02.027Z In old times the natives had so few subjects for conversation that they made the most of what they had, which accounts for their verbosity in trifling matters. Old New Zealand A Tale of the Good Old Times; and A History of the War in the North against the Chief Heke, in the Year 1845 2012-04-05T02:00:37.337Z He laid bare the absurd technicalities and verbosities which blocked the avenues to the common law courts. Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland 2012-03-12T03:00:20.310Z And so on and so forth, in a tangle of verbosity, for an hour and more. My Lords of Strogue Vol. III, (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:27.667Z The Queen's intolerance of affectation, verbosity, or obscurity of language affected her judgment not only of men, but also of much of the contemporary literature which found favour with others. Queen Victoria As I Knew Her 2012-01-22T03:00:23.263Z Sentiment has degenerated into sentimentalism, courage into a reckless gambling for honours, statesmanship into politics, oratory into verbosity. The World Masters 2011-11-18T03:00:31.543Z He must learn to exchange his verbosity for action in the great battle of life. The Hindoos as they Are A Description of the Manners, Customs and the Inner Life of Hindoo Society in Bengal 2011-10-13T02:00:35.977Z In Europe it’s too dreary—the sapience, the solemnity, the false respectability, the verbosity, the long disquisitions on superannuated subjects. Lady Barbarina The Siege of London, An International Episode and Other Tales 2011-10-06T02:00:37.063Z Obama, showing anger, passion and verbosity rare in public in his two-and-a-half years as president, called a press conference at the White House at short notice to express his frustration with the . Debt ceiling talks between Obama and Republicans collapse 2011-07-23T01:24:42Z Oh! daughters of Eve, There are some who believe Your tongues are your weakness—your failing, verbosity; While others contend, You'll never amend Of that fault Mrs. Bluebeard possess'd—curiosity! Humorous Readings and Recitations In prose and verse 2011-07-20T02:00:16.323Z It is very kind of him, however, to ask my little girl, and I hope by the aid of the dictionary to express myself with ease and verbosity in acknowledging the honor. Tripping with the Tucker Twins 2011-07-10T02:00:21.613Z “Too excessive” is, of course, redundant; a worse flaw than verbosity is poeticism, like: “It was a time when desire, more arousingly than ever, must have draped its glossy peacock-feathered cloak across this town.” Escaping Hitler, Cracking Up in L.A. 2011-06-17T21:53:40Z Then the wedding breakfast, where doubtless, under the combined influence of love, lemonade and excitement, I made numerous speeches, and soared to heights of windy verbosity seldom heard outside Parliament House. From Chart House to Bush Hut Being the Record of a Sailor's 7 Years in the Queensland Bush 2011-06-08T02:00:16.290Z This abundance, in truth, appears to the reader not wholly ignorant of the subject to be cognate to verbosity. The Age of Tennyson 2011-05-31T02:00:36.607Z Agnes ran out into the yard to learn what the trouble was, and Tess and Dot, with great verbosity, related their version of the occurrence. The Corner House Girls' Odd Find Where they made it, and What the Strange Discovery led to 2011-05-31T02:00:34.950Z The Major attempted to stem the tide of the old man's verbosity, but he evidently had a grievance, and a Belgian with a grievance is not a thing to be regarded with a light heart. Men, Women and Guns 2011-05-27T02:00:17.367Z Hence the verbosity of law documents in which stops are not used. The International Auxiliary Language Esperanto Grammar and Commentary 2011-04-12T02:00:28.753Z The enactments of the two preceding legislatures had been published only in manuscript, a method of promulgation which one would think might have curbed verbosity. Vermont A Study of Independence 2011-03-17T02:00:13.130Z Freedom of expression, without fluency or verbosity; no great loquacity. Life of Heber C. Kimball, an Apostle The Father and Founder of the British Mission 2011-02-21T03:00:08.060Z He is the very antipode to Don Adriano in "Love's Labor's Lost"; never could it be said of him that "he draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument." The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 68, June, 1863 2011-02-11T03:00:30.570Z But for all that I cannot help seeing his faults which I mentioned in my former satire—his extreme verbosity and roughness. Studies in the Poetry of Italy, I. Roman 2011-02-06T03:00:58.870Z The style is too generally loose, digressive and inexact; dates are seldom given; and discursiveness, verbosity and dogmatism are frequent faults. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" 2011-02-06T03:00:53.093Z Mr. Woodward’s detail-rich, behind-the-scenes reporting on the Obama administration’s decision-making on Afghanistan shows that almost no one, other than Vice President , verbosity aside, comes off well. Letter From Washington: The Afghanistan Debate Nobody Wants to Have 2010-10-10T15:20:00Z "Leave it to you, sir," Purvis replied promptly, shrewdly fearing the effect his friend's verbosity might have upon the ultimate figure. A Poached Peerage Here is a model letter worthy the imitation of the elaborate epistle manufacturers of the present prolific era of verbosity, ambiguity and repetition. Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution But those Irish Shylocks must have their pound of verbosity. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, June 28 1890 "He draweth out the thread of his verbosity, finer than the staple of his argument." The Sword of Damocles A Story of New York Life I seek now to get back to the utmost simplicity of expression, to disuse the verbosity I tried so hard to acquire, to get the grit of compact, clear truth, if possible, informal and direct. The Style Book of The Detroit News Mrs. Castle seemed willing to listen to the Professor’s verbosity and agreed with all he said. The Girls of Hillcrest Farm The Secret of the Rocks But by its verbosities it is extended into pure nonsense; for "facts" are neither "objective" nor "subjective"125 religion; they are not religion at all. Modern Painters, Volume IV (of V) Dickens needs the dollars, and he therefore spins out his satires to a length of distance to be traversed only by seven-league boots, and in verbosity is equalled only by Thackeray. Lectures on Russian Literature Pushkin, Gogol, Turgenef, Tolstoy But “he spins the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.” Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature Hardly anyone who has written so much has kept so uniformly to a high level, and so seldom descended to empty verbosity or to downright slipshod. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) But the integrity of the empire, safe from foes without, was threatened on either shore of St. George's Channel—by malignant treason on one side, and on the other by exuberant verbosity. Name and Fame A Novel Add more verbosity, and a strong extract of priggishness. Punch, or, the London Charivari, Volume 98, March 8, 1890. But gradually the Latin became mere gossip-stuff and artificiality to her, a question of manners and verbosities. The Rainbow To protract a speech by verbosity, through an unreasonable time, to, till, or until a late hour. English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions De Quincey's passages of splendid rhetoric are too often succeeded by dead levels of verbosity and laboured puerilities which make annoyance alternate with enthusiasm. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) There was evidently not space enough for his drunken verbosity and Mitya not only filled the margins but had written the last line right across the rest. The Brothers Karamazov In consequence, verbosity, as a rule, comes short of expressing emotion. Commentary on Genesis, Vol. II Luther on Sin and the Flood The old fault of verbosity and "watering out" recurs; and so does the reappearance, with very slight change, of figures and situations. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century Gurn felt inclined to laugh, and on the whole was glad that it was the junior whom he had to see; the futile verbosity of this very young licentiate might possibly be amusing. Fantômas I don't think, in spite of my verbosity, I have made any particular or direct allusion to our friend, the mule, so here I will make slight amends. A Yeoman's Letters Third Edition Labour gained a few more seats at this election, and the verbosity one had to listen to made an M.L.A.'s life, like a policeman's, not a happy one. Reminiscences of Queensland 1862-1869 Pablo Valls overflowed with amusing incoherency, like a charlatan condemned for a long time to silence who suffers the torture of his repressed verbosity. The Dead Command From the Spanish Los Muertos Mandan Mr. Jackson was recognised everywhere to be a fine platform speaker, but his varied excellence could not be appreciated in a summary, and he had a fine verbosity. The Hero Yet the unresting and unerring spirit of criticism may observe that even here the verbosity which is the fault of the whole division makes its appearance. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 Had he been exceptionally lured into verbosity he might have gone as far as to say, "The answer is in the negative," or "in the affirmative," as the case might be. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, May 20, 1914 The extravagant and grandiloquent diction of his early dedications read like commonplace prose when compared with the inflated verbosity of his later dedications to Queen Anna. Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592 Yet his fluency never ran off into the fatal channels of verbosity. Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 3 of 3) Essay 7: W.R. Greg: A Sketch He broke into a torrent of foreign exclamations and verbosity, showing his teeth and gesticulating with his hands. The Angel of the Tenement And Crébillon, despite his verbosity, is never at a loss for pointed sayings to relieve and froth it up. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 Why has he dedicated twenty-seven pages of ponderous verbosity to so light and trifling a work? Diary in America, Series Two But who has not suffered under the tedious and tiresome verbosity of editors? The Book-Hunter at Home The extracts from this author are intended to exhibit the dangers of verbosity and exaggeration. How to Write Clearly Rules and Exercises on English Composition An unnecessary profusion of words is called verbiage: verbosity, wordiness. The Verbalist A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and the Wrong Use of Words and to Some Other Matters of Interest to Those Who Would Speak and Write with Propriety. Mackenzie's noisy verbosity and self-assertion offended the patrician instincts of Mr. Baldwin, to whom, indeed, the little proletarian was altogether distasteful and repulsive. The Story of the Upper Canada Rebellion You can take my words so easily that we must guard against wasting time in mere verbosity. Seen and Unseen The book of nature is not spread before us, turning leaf after leaf at every sunrise, with new delineations on every page, to be stared at with vacant inanity, or criticized with imbecile verbosity. The Continental Monthly , Vol. 2 No. 5, November 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Our first ground of complaint against Mr. Trollope's North-America, is its extreme verbosity. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy. So long as new foreign companies continue to establish American branches and appoint managers, any amiable detrimental with sufficient verbosity may secure for himself a comfortable berth. White Ashes But the new thing did not fit into the little outlines and verbosities which served as a philosophy for our political hacks. A Preface to Politics Against all this mystification both of silence and verbosity Shaw has been a splendid and smashing protest. George Bernard Shaw After the Demosthenic periods and Ciceronian verbosity of some of our previous rulers Dr. Addison's bright bedside manner with an ailing or moribund Bill is a refreshing spectacle. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, December 1, 1920 Though his style is in general correct and elegant, he sometimes 'draws out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.' Gibbon Forgive the verbosity of one whose trade it is to express the inexpressible. Gilbert Keith Chesterton These people talk much and loudly about freedom—the magic word!—assert with much pomp and verbosity the rights of man, proclaim his independence, and are given to much like inane vaunting and braggadocio. Explanation of Catholic Morals A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals I am practising verbosity for the book I am going to write some day. Sunny Slopes Certainly not the Waverley series; for Scott, as we know, rehearsed his glowing chronicles of the past with the somewhat conventional verbosity of the improvisatore who recites but will not pause to write. Studies in Early Victorian Literature While we were slowly sipping it, and smoking our cigarettes, in an unwonted pause of my friend's fanciful verbosity, I almost jumped in my chair at the sound of a voice indoors. Pieces of Eight She is so intoxicated with her own verbosity that she can neither listen to the sounds of her own voice nor analyze her own utterances. The Vitalized School He draweth the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument. Familiar Quotations Not even the proverbial postcard was sent to Tralee, so the verbosity of Mr. Gladstone was strangely checked when he found himself pinned down to facts by Irish landlords. The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent The public were long harassed by a fantastic race, who called themselves Ciceronian, of whom are recorded many ridiculous practices, to strain out the words of Cicero into their hollow verbosities. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2 But "he spins the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument." Lectures on the English Poets Delivered at the Surrey Institution It is not however so much the verbosity as the gloom of Mr. Mais's characters that leaves me fretful. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 158, March 17, 1920 The finished draft, Mathilda, still shows Mary Shelley's faults as a writer: verbosity, loose plotting, somewhat stereotyped and extravagant characterization. Mathilda So far the abbot with much learning and no little verbosity casts his net. The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay It is exempt from verbosity; it considers only good results. Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology He avails himself remorselessly of all the pretexts for verbosity, for iteration, for sophistical invention, afforded by the cumbrous machinery of the law, and its proverbial delay. Robert Browning To such causes may be attributed occasional declamation, extravagant verbosity and unconscious inconsistencies, not well comporting with the solidity and self possession so desirable on the part of an expositor. Notes on the Apocalypse These striplings and maidens are all poor, mostly vain, and without exception fulfilled of a devastating verbosity. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, February 19, 1919 He indeed pushed himself into the front place by dint of copious verbosity, and militant oppugnancy. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, November 7, 1891 The issue between the things only a European can do, and the things no European has the right to do, is much sharper and clearer than the confusions of verbosity. The New Jerusalem His happy delineations and contrasts of character, and easy play of native fun, redeem a thousand faults of verbosity, clumsiness, and coarseness. Peter Simple; and, The Three Cutters, Vol. 1-2 It is the practice of paying by the column, or, in other words, paying a premium for verbosity, and imposing a fine upon conciseness. Famous Americans of Recent Times The resolutions are noteworthy for their verbosity and entire absence of moderate and wise suggestion. Canada under British Rule 1760-1900 A rather turgid orator, noted for his verbosity and heaviness, was once assigned to do some campaigning in a mining camp in the mountains. Toaster's Handbook Jokes, Stories, and Quotations Neither was he pleased, in prose, with the verbosities, the redundant metaphors, the ludicrous digressions of Cicero. Against the Grain This young man must indeed have been a marvel of eloquent verbosity at that period of his career. The Mystery of Metropolisville In aiming to secure sentence emphasis, then, we should avoid circumlocution, redundancy, tautology, and verbosity. Composition-Rhetoric This tendency clings to them afterwards, so that the knowledge of many learned men becomes mere verbosity. Essays of Schopenhauer And he said no more, wrapping himself in offended silence, relieving his Neapolitan verbosity with a series of shouts and grunts to his horse. Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel Caught up now in the real torrent of his premeditated verbosity, he continued to relieve himself of all that he had learned by cramming during the past few days. The Torrent Entre Naranjos But verbosity and want of unity are not the worst faults of this definition. The Grammar of English Grammars He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.—Shakespeare, Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook He speaks without stopping to take breath, with ease, with point, with elegance, and without "spinning the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument." The Spirit of the Age Contemporary Portraits Little by little he slipped away from the prudent barrier that was hedging in his verbosity and spoke with his old time abandon; but his flow of words did not exactly convey news. Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel "No verbosity, please, just a yes or no." Undo, a Novel By Joe Hutsko The overall trend, however, is definitely away from such verbosity. The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 Next day for his freak, By a Narrabri beak, He was jawed with a deal of verbosity; For his only appeal Was 'professional zeal' — He wanted another monstrosity. Rio Grande's Last Race & Other Verses Exuberant verbosity, selfish display, excesses at the Lord's table, unseemly behaviour of women at meetings for worship, and also abuse of spiritual gifts, were complicated by heathen influences and the corrupting customs of idolatry. Weymouth New Testament in Modern Speech, Preface and Introductions Nay, it will certainly be I, if he does not wish to be lost and to practise verbosity only. The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1 Again, there are others, the delivery of which, anticipating all the dullness and verbosity with which they are certain to be filled, we dread like the incursions of a well-known bore. Frost's Laws and By-Laws of American Society A condensed but thorough treatise on etiquette and its usages in America, containing plain and reliable directions for deportment in every situation in life. Passons, as papa says, and, in parenthesis, don't be vexed with my verbosity. The Possessed (The Devils) He led the company through a tasteful jungle of verbosity, and left the ultimate impression that Monsieur had been a remarkable man, whether as artist or as collector. Bertram Cope's Year Considering that introduction of myself would be mere verbosity in the presence of this master, I stood speechless, somewhat hurt at my reception. Autobiography of a Yogi Do you suppose that any rambling Don is going to take up my time when by a sheer accident his verbosity has started me on a true scent? On Something He has a beautiful wife of horticultural propensities, that hen-pecks the remainder of his days with soothing and bewitching verbosity that makes the nectar of his pandemonium as cool as Tartarus. The American Union Speaker He remains a great writer because, like Moli�re, La Bruy�re, and La Fontaine, he is always close to nature, disdaining all studied rhetorical effect and all literary verbosity. Une Vie, a Piece of String and Other Stories "Talkative, my child, excessive verbosity—Mr. Vereker will doubtless remember our conversation on music," said he, with a whimsical glance at me. Peregrine's Progress He is too picked, too spruce, too affected, too odd, as it were; too peregrinate, as I may call it; he draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 13, November, 1858 The language they use is barbarous, as being but a dialect of pedlar's French or the Egyptian, though of a loftier sound, and in the propriety affecting brevity, as the other does verbosity. Character Writings of the 17th Century He degenerates occasionally into mere turgidness and verbosity, as in the following lines: Oh, partner of my infant grief and joys! Lives of the English Poets From Johnson to Kirke White, Designed as a Continuation of Johnson's Lives Miss Burney accuses him of emptiness, verbosity and pomposity, all of which she describes in an amusing manner. Life of Johnson, Volume 4 1780-1784 Then all fell to their fish again in silence; for Spain is a silent country, and only babbles in that home of fervid eloquence and fatal verbosity, the Cortes. The Velvet Glove He cut trenchantly through pretences where he thought a lack of vigorous performance was covered up by verbosity of reports. Military Reminiscences of the Civil War, Volume 2 November 1863-June 1865 Whose writing was that upon the broad marge of verbosity? Mary Anerley : a Yorkshire Tale “Got anything to smoke?” he asked, in his most abrupt manner, as if the cut of his collar did not allow of verbosity. The Grey Lady The spirited verbosity, as we called it, of that pamphlet of Edwards had procured him a reputation among the Presbyterians, which he felt himself bound to justify by farther efforts. The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649 The former is a specimen of the ultra florid or bombastic style which may be said to depend upon the pomposity of verbosity for its effect, the latter is a specimen of simple natural Style. How to Speak and Write Correctly The very shadow of his deeds—his morality—shows us that he is a word-hero, and that he avoids everything which might induce him to transfer his energies from mere verbosity to really serious things. Thoughts out of Season Part I Perhaps the fault of this book of theory—or rather the characteristic most likely to give cause for attack—is the tendency to verbosity. Concerning the Spiritual in Art His whole demeanor showed that he was more than ever hugely enjoying his own verbosity—the florid language which was both maddening and mystifying the tramp. The Landloper Then, with a clamour of furious verbosity, Ada enlightened her husband on other points of Emma's behaviour. In the Year of Jubilee If a man has a thought which is worth declaring, let him declare it with a free and noble utterance—don't let him wrap it up in multifarious parcels of dreary verbosity! Thelma For a man who writes in a code must perforce avoid verbosity. The Vultures In Europe it's too dreary—the sapience, the solemnity, the false respectability, the verbosity, the long disquisitions on superannuated subjects. The Point of View Everywhere, in the town halls, in popular meetings, in the sectional assemblies, in the wine shops, on the public promenades, on street corners vanity erects a tribune of verbosity. The French Revolution - Volume 2 He was not very talkative—only persons of inconstant ideas and unstable judgment are prone to verbosity. Dona Perfecta Aha!" thought I, without expressing myself aloud—"this is quite a remarkable silence on the part of Toby Dammit, and is no doubt a consequence of his verbosity upon a previous occasion. The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 5 This is shown mostly by a rhetorical verbosity, rare in antiquity before the time of Statius, and by a singular want of the lyrical concentration which is indispensable to this style of poetry. The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy But as they drank their tea even their utmost verbosity could not make them oblivious to the fact that the perfume of sweet lavender was stealing insidiously through the room. The Shape of Fear I will dite an eloquent love-pistle to her, and then she hearing the grand verbosity of my scripture, will love me presently. Locrine/Mucedorus The Government, too, was issuing communications of vague and rhetorical verbosity. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse He had not yet been swept from his bearings by popular applause, or intoxicated by his own verbosity. Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White — Volume 1 They exchanged excuses and caresses with oriental demonstrativeness and verbosity. Salammbo He grinned when I handed it over, yet it was a grin that contained more sincere thanks than a multitude of the verbosities of speech common to the members of my own class. The Sea Wolf Hence come reservations, qualifications, verbosity, and the see-saw of a wavering courage, which apes progress and purpose, as soldiers mark time with their feet. Style |
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