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单词 wordiness
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The book is organized to show how golf writing — and fiction writing in general — has evolved from the wordiness of the early 20th century — interesting, but probably only compelling to an English major. Golf stories: an oasis and metaphor for the multiple rounds of life 2011-06-15T19:39:04Z
Offsetting the slight wordiness, most of the verses include some natural images, or suggest sensations of headlong movement. Poem of the week: Eros Turannos by Edwin Arlington Robinson 2010-05-03T10:13:00Z
For example, I submitted a few of my recent columns, only to discover that, as far as wordiness, I am second only to Melville. Gene takes Grammarly to school 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z
Grammarly tends to criticize for “wordiness” any sentence that contains more than 20 of those basic units of language. Gene takes Grammarly to school 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z
Often prestige television like this – expansive, expensive and ambitious – falls back on its wordiness, and Chernobyl is certainly well-written enough to justify that. Chernobyl: horrifying, masterful television that sears on to your brain 2019-05-29T04:00:00Z
Not a line challenged, not a phrase found wanting, no trace of dreaded wordiness. Gene takes Grammarly to school 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z
In some ways, the wordiness of “Hamilton” proved advantageous. They Translated ‘Hamilton’ Into German. Was It Easy? Nein. 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z
"The only fault is an occasional tendency to meander into excessive wordiness." What to say about ? The Late Middle Classes 2010-06-04T10:00:00Z
“There’s a wordiness I go through, so I can paint a picture,” he said. Fashion Designers Driving Innovation in Makeup 2013-07-17T03:18:01Z
The wordiness and harmonies of these songs are somewhat similar. Randy Rainbow on his viral Trump indictment parody video: 'No choice but to really go for it' 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z
To begin, look at the sentences below to get a sense of what wordiness is. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z
The result is some wordiness — encounters rendered with admirable sincerity but that feel superfluous, or overlong, as in the protracted scene that begins Act 2 between Brandon and his sister, Bronkovic’s Brittany. Review | ‘The Folks at Home’ is playwright R. Eric Thomas’s paean to a beloved American staple 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z
Finally, Google is adding some “assisted writing” features to Google Docs, which will range from warning you about offensive language, wordiness, or noninclusive language. Google Workspace turns to "smart chips" to weave Docs, Tasks, and Meet together 2021-05-18T04:00:00Z
Each lengthy caption is presented in English, German and French, but Borja’s aerial photos cut through the wordiness with ominous piles of clouds, lightning and glimpses of the sun and faraway landscapes. Heading into storms, a pilot takes breathtaking photos of nature’s wrath 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z
Once recorded, the nocturnal episodes were analyzed for such factors as wordiness, silences, tone, politeness and abusive language. Some people curse and say nasty things in their sleep. There’s a good reason. 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z
Identify instances of wordiness and overused modifiers and edit to eliminate them. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z
But there was a time when his trademark wordiness and deliberate pace cost him a prime gig, and the chance to partner with football’s foremost personality. The Day Vin Scully Didn’t Land That N.F.L. Broadcasting Job 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z
Stevens is hyper-literate, and his wordiness mocks his own idiosyncrasies: "There’s only a shadow of me, in a manner of speaking I’m dead," he sings in "The Only Thing." Sufjan Stevens' gorgeous new album is what grown-up emotional music should sound like 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z
Hockey is a fast sport where the players are in near-constant action, lending itself to wordiness. Mike Emrick Is Hockey’s Maestro of the Microphone 2012-06-01T00:33:44Z
Boys dislike fussiness, and wordiness, and beating about the bush. Sunday-School Success A Book of Practical Methods for Sunday-School Teachers and Officers 2011-12-21T03:00:45.660Z
Exercise 139 Carelessness in speaking frequently results in wordiness, since the speaker in an effort to be clear or forceful repeats the idea two or three times. Business English A Practice Book 2011-11-19T03:00:25.507Z
They start with an imaginary equality of force, of fulness, and variety; but forthwith rush into a strange higgle-piggledy, helter-skelter sort of imposing wordiness, equally bewildering and stupifying to their readers and themselves. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 60, No. 373, November 1846 2011-10-21T02:00:17.417Z
Often simply redundant, used from a mere habit of wordiness. A Foreword to the Panama-Pacific International Exposition 2011-08-20T02:00:13.567Z
Mere wordiness and grandiloquence may sound like ecstasy yet lack that quality. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z
The exigencies of the Chinese language make a literal translation often scarcely endurable or possible, while a lengthened paraphrase gives a wordiness that is not a true reflection of the epigrammatic pithiness of the original. Proverb Lore Many sayings, wise or otherwise, on many subjects, gleaned from many sources
The extreme wordiness which was Mr. Wright's principal literary fault is disagreeably manifest when his book is laid by those of other masters in positive philosophy. The Galaxy, April, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—April, 1877.—No. 4.
Note.—A special form of wordiness is tautology—the useless repetition of an idea in different words. The Century Handbook of Writing
And there is likewise no surer way of compelling students to substitute facts for vapid wordiness and snap judgments. College Teaching Studies in Methods of Teaching in the College
But with all his wordiness the American answered without answering, and kept repeating what he had to say about the Northwest Passage. The Voyages and Adventures of Captain Hatteras
Verbosity and wordiness denote an excess of words in proportion to the thought. English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions
He descants perpetually on virtue, religion, “the good man,” life, death, immortality, eternity—subjects which are apt to give a factitious grandeur to empty wordiness The Essays of "George Eliot" Complete
His wordiness hurts tender ears when he so often and apparently without any use repeats the same things. Commentary on Genesis, Vol. II Luther on Sin and the Flood
We witness its disastrous effects in the empty wordiness of many extemporaneous preachers. Hints on Extemporaneous Preaching
They have the wordiness of hasty composition, and the discursive rhetoric intended to catch the attention of an indolent audience. The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill
Such common faults as wordiness, overstatement, faulty sentence structure and weak use of words are gradually corrected. The Armed Forces Officer Department of the Army Pamphlet 600-2
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.
Yet like those of Lydgate and Caxton, Bokenam's protestations are not entirely convincing, and in them one catches glimpses of a lurking fondness for the wordiness of fine writing. Early Theories of Translation
Why not say it at once and abolish the wordiness? How to Write Letters (Formerly The Book of Letters) A Complete Guide to Correct Business and Personal Correspondence
The fluency which was a besetting sin of his poetry when released from the fetters of rhyme and meter ran into wordiness. Brief History of English and American Literature
They could at once eradicate two of the things that cause a part of the evil—the wordiness and the commercial standardization of the story. The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story
Sometimes a better name than verbiage for wordiness would be emptiness. 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.
He himself deplored the stenographer as a deterrent to good writing; the habit of dictating, he argued, led to wordiness and general looseness of thought. The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume II
And he could muster up nothing but an irritating sense of hollow wordiness in many of his former dictums and utterances, a vast futility of effort. Burned Bridges
The fluency which was a besetting sin of his poetry, when released from the fetters of rhyme and meter, ran into wordiness. Initial Studies in American Letters
The part itself is the most difficult in nature to make tolerable on the stage, its leading characteristic being wordiness. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, November 27, 1841
Here is a writer who began literature with a sense of words, and who is declining into a mere sense of wordiness. The Art of Letters
It is natural, limpid, free from all rhetorical flourishes and wordiness, placing the right word in the right place. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 10 Prince Otto Von Bismarck, Count Helmuth Von Moltke, Ferdinand Lassalle
It expressed in gorgeous wordiness the mood of every green-sick youth of imagination who sees that beauty is being banished from the world in the name of goodness. Old and New Masters
They appear very wise in their wordiness when real military experts are silent for want of knowledge. My Year of the War Including an Account of Experiences with the Troops in France and the Record of a Visit to the Grand Fleet Which is Here Given for the First Time in its Complete Form
Again he found himself interrupted by the wordiness of the doctor. Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel
With light, curly hair, fair complexion, and gray eyes, one would have expected Baxter to be genial of temper, with a tendency toward wordiness of speech. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue
What, forsooth, had I been looking for in the empty wordiness of the book? Glimpses of Bengal Selected from the Letters of Sir Rabindranath Tagore
In the majority of his poems, his style errs on the side of prolixity and wordiness. The Renascence of Hebrew Literature (1743-1885)
His wordiness is of all his faults the most seductive and the most conspicuous, and procured for him even in his lifetime the epithet of Asiatic. The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius
McGregor was so irritated by what he took to be the wordiness of the man that he could not restrain himself. Marching Men
And yet there is no noisiness, no wordiness, about them; nothing like rant or violence.  Discipline and Other Sermons
A final device for escaping wordiness you will have discovered for yourself while composing telegrams and telegraphic night letters. The Century Vocabulary Builder
Diderot was not the man to repress the natural tendency of contributors to wordiness. The Eve of the French Revolution
And his weight would not really have mattered; his wordiness, however, was beginning to irritate her little by little. Yama: the pit
There was a bored tolerance of his wordiness, an utter lack of interest in the concerns of the petty tradesman. Australia Felix
He took so wide an interest in life, that there was much to occupy him in newspapers, though he laughed at the wordiness of the debates; reading them, I think, only in abstract. Life and Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1
It is equally obvious that these two necessary sanctities of thrift and dignity are bound to come into collision with the wordiness, the wastefulness, and the perpetual pleasure-seeking of masculine companionship. What's Wrong with the World
Expressing himself in empty phrases, mistaking sycophancy for politeness, and wordiness for wit, he uttered his commonplaces with a brisk assurance that passed for eloquence. The Lesser Bourgeoisie
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