| 单词 | wordy |
| 例句 | The one I have in mind not only is wordy and earnest beyond my wildest dreams but is, to boot, rather excruciatingly personal. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z The music from the settlement stays the same, messy and wordy and bending around itself like a monkey. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z So I prepared two answers— one that is polite but kind of wordy, and one that is a little smart-mouthed. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z The Russians may or may not have been able to read the wordy message, written in English, from their moving car. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Good Boys, though wordy in parts, is nonetheless a great play for high school actors and audiences. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z Both are wordy, aggressive and at times self-righteous. 8Ball’s Album ‘Life’s Quest’ Returns to Classic Southern Rap 2012-08-10T14:00:57Z Most likely to: Be wordy in a built-up area. New band of the day ? No 760: Villagers 2010-04-06T14:01:00Z There are 13 musical portraits, and the wordy texts – Chaucer's original rendered into more or less modern English – are given colourful if generically descriptive settings, some as solo numbers, others for the chorus alone. The Canterbury Pilgrims – review 2012-07-27T15:09:14Z History in general — and American history in particular — can be wordy. Review | These ‘missing’ Jacob Lawrence paintings are finally in a museum — and they’re masterpieces 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z Aaron Sorkin’s very, very, very wordy screenplay for Steve Jobs was also overlooked, as was Quentin Tarantino’s even wordier script for The Hateful Eight. Oscar nominations 2016 - live coverage 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z But there’s much of interest in this wordy, somewhat haphazard selection, especially to those with an interest in maps, architecture and urban planning. In the galleries: Celebrating nature 2016-02-10T05:00:00Z He sings, plays guitar and writes wordy and offbeat songs for the Mountain Goats, the indie band of which he is frequently the sole member. ‘Wolf in White Van,’ by John Darnielle 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z Also, I’m debuting new material and my songs are very wordy and I’m trying to get the stories across. Craig Finn keeps the faith: “We live in divided times, but I do believe that people are inherently good” 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z Calling someone “supersmart,” for example, is a poor, wordy substitute for “brilliant.” A Certain Word Is Really Getting on My Nerves 2016-03-12T05:00:00Z The two leads, by contrast, pale into wordy insignificance: Richard Madden’s Romeo and, especially, Lily James’s Juliet approach the verse from the outside in with little apparent connection to its meaning. Review: ‘The Threepenny Opera,’ ‘Romeo and Juliet’ and ‘Human Animals.’ 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z The artisan movement long ago blew through the world of food on a wind of old-timey brand names and wordy labeling. Is your persimmon soap infused with geisha wisdom? The precious world of artisanal beauty. 2016-05-21T04:00:00Z Here, the wordy, contemplative “To the Moon and Back” gets the best of him — Mr. Bryan is a mover and a feeler, not a thinker. With ‘Kill the Lights,’ Luke Bryan Downshifts a Country Party 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z Mr. Schama is a wordy, frequently witty writer about a wordy, witty culture. Books of The Times: Simon Schama’s ‘The Story of the Jews’ 2014-03-10T20:50:31Z There’s some James Joyce in the wordy, cerebral rush of her sentences. Review: ‘Pond’ Makes Misanthropy Compelling 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z A wordy first half, satirising late-18th-century theatrical customs, is followed by a hilarious rehearsal of Mr Puff's awful tragedy about the Spanish Armada. The Real Inspector Hound/The Critic 2010-07-11T20:30:00Z Some ideas link these objects, but wordy captions mean you lose the desire to find out. Museum of the Civilisations of Europe and the Mediterranean (MuCEM) – review 2013-06-08T23:05:15Z Arranged in a series of specific imaginary scenarios, Wang Shuo’s wordy screenplay grows increasingly serious, taking satirical digs at China’s aging population and corrupt officials, and the dearth of artistry in its mass-market movies. Movie Review: ‘Personal Tailor,’ Directed by Feng Xiaogang 2013-12-19T23:24:56Z The Goethe-Institut also is revisiting punk, but in a wordier way. Review | In the galleries: Ghostly presences at the Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts Gallery 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z Each was a wordy poem written in white letters on a stark black background. Ace Hotel joins growing billboard art movement in a big way 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z This being Creighton, of course we were offered a wordy explanation beforehand. Finale recap: "Treme's" long, strange trip 2010-06-21T11:07:00Z If a play in letters sounds dull and wordy, it isn’t here, because Gurney pushes at the restrictions of the format. Ali MacGraw and Ryan O'Neal, 45 years later: 'Love Letters' loaded with nostalgia 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z It was dense, really wordy, and I was determined to learn every word of it – not just skip over bits and pieces. ArtsBeat: Bette Midler Hangs Up the Phone 2013-07-02T15:46:26Z The results, not unlike Mr. Penn’s Rolling Stone article on Mr. Guzmán, were a mixture of wordy, breezy travelogue with moments of nonchalance and unintentional comedy. Sean Penn’s Excursions Into Writing Often Mix Activism With Journalism 2016-01-10T05:00:00Z Bakewell, a former London book curator who studied philosophy at the University of Leeds, likes wordy subtitles. The existentialists come alive (over cocktails) in Sarah Bakewell's 'At the Existentialist Cafe' 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z “For me, this is all a bit too wordy, too cutesy, and too much. Please share your recommendations and move on. Again, good luck. You’ll get it right!” Fun Things to Do This Weekend: Pride, Summer Solstice and Sensory Overload in Brighton Beach 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z Publishers believe that in this era of Search Engine Optimization, books must have subtitles, whether superfluous or not, and the more wordy the better. Perspective | A cover story: The art of the pointless subtitle 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z Are we still waiting around for Toni Morrison’s rather wordy and overelaborate sentences to let themselves be “more clearly interpreted?” Perspective | In postponing Guston exhibition, the National Gallery and three other museums have made a terrible mistake 2020-09-27T04:00:00Z Their interventions brought welcome variations in timing and energy, beyond the shifts in pacing necessitated by tailoring each story, however wordy, to the space of a minute. Review: A Dance to John Cage’s Very Short Stories 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z This is one of the wordiest musicals in the history of theater, a show so drunk on the exuberance of its language that it almost never stops to catch its breath. Review: ‘Hamilton’ in German? It’s a Thrill. 2022-10-07T04:00:00Z To make the thing work, its master must speak the magic words, much like Ali Baba’s “Open Sesame,” or Green Lantern’s overly wordy, battery-charging oath. For ‘Trollhunters,’ Guillermo del Toro Found Inspiration in the Sewers 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z But then unlike the wordy “Rock Critic,” this show tackles the transformative power of music without a single line of dialogue. How to Listen to Rock ’n’ Roll in a Theater 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z But get to the real stuff, wordy critic! Review | ‘Killing Eve’ resumes its anxiety-fueled story of two women who can’t resist one another 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z But as a catchall for the sorts of brief, often emotionally charged narratives that used to proliferate on personal blogs, the wordy caption is clearly gaining traction. The Captionfluencers 2019-03-27T04:00:00Z Maybe you prefer not to be that wordy. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: A firstborn child’s inherited guilt trip 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z A bunch of able students do the working-out with probability trees and wordy explanations, but the comics often come to the same conclusions, and viewers at home can pause and play along, too. TV highlights – 01/05/2013 2013-05-01T05:59:01Z When J was losing Bey fans with the wordy “Big Pimpin’,” she hit the stage with the easy sing-along “Naughty Girl.” Jay Z and Beyoncé 'On the Run' at the Rose Bowl 2014-08-03T04:00:00Z Given Bale’s quiet and brooding menace in the Batman Trilogy, ‘The Fighter’, and ‘Terminator Salvation’, Sorkin believes the wordy script will challenge him. Christian Bale Confirmed By Aaron Sorkin As Apple's Steve Jobs 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z Her three-piece band's arrangements of her wordy material can be so conservative that they verge on lounge music, but Ziegel is a quietly edgy presence. Keren Ann ? review 2011-04-10T21:15:00Z “Classy,” the new advice book, is very wordy and frequently crassy, as when he describes why it is a bad idea to wear white jeans to a barbecue. A Talent to Amuse 2010-04-15T01:04:00Z In rough drafts of pieces she sounds just like herself, if a bit wordier than usual. Joan Didion gets out of town in 'South and West' — and finds only fragments 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z Her somewhat wordy writing—part whodunnit and part travelogue—weaves together the accounts of policemen, prosecutors and those convicted with some penetrating insights. Time of death 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z If Katy B were a more dynamic songwriter, it would help, but she can be wordy. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2011-04-04T22:04:46Z Because Facebook allows for wordier posts than social networks like Twitter, people who are opining on the Gaza stories often do so at length. Facebook’s Change of Face 2014-08-08T04:00:00Z Aaron Sorkin’s very, very, very wordy screenplay for Steve Jobs was also overlooked, as was Quentin Tarantino’s even wordier script for The Hateful Eight. Oscar nominations 2016 - live coverage 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z But, he said, most are wordy and boring! Stan Mack’s Occupy-the-Fourth-of-July funnies 2012-07-10T00:00:00Z Another under-heralded talent is Lipa’s ability to nail complex syncopations and wordy passages on and around the beat, perhaps owing to her early hip-hop fandom growing up in London, then Kosovo. Dua Lipa’s Unplanned, Uncertain, Unprecedented Album Launch 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z A wordy headline in the New York Times Magazine recently caught my attention: “Distressed jeans turn punk rock’s battered bad attitude into a commodified style for those with the social capital to dress in shreds.” Artists are just this screwed: When capitalism markets rebellion, how does the rebel stand outside? 2015-06-14T04:00:00Z The result is a film that is both literary and performance-led; wordy, worthy, but worth it for those willing to listen and learn rather than watch and wonder. Mark Kermode's DVD round-up 2013-06-08T23:05:08Z In lieu of a wordy acceptance speech for his MTV Generation Award, the show's version of a lifetime achievement trophy, Johnny Depp performed with The Black Keys. MTV movie awards 2012: Twilight and Hunger Games fight for supremacy 2012-06-04T13:08:00Z Having just finished a very wordy and revealing argument, he yells 'Aarghhh!', or something like that, and storms off. The Problem With Broadway Revivals: They Revive Gender Stereotypes, Too 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z The wordy, idiomatic “Soliloquy” from “Carousel” was the biggest challenge, and he met it full on. Music Review: ?An Evening With Paulo Szot? at Caf? Carlyle - Review 2012-01-14T01:45:52Z Fugard's three-hander is wordy but meaty, and if it is inclined to outstay its welcome, it does so with grace. The Road to Mecca 2010-06-29T20:30:00Z All three pictures cracked $1 billion at the worldwide box office, assuring the continuation of fantasy franchises with needlessly wordy titles. Summer Box Office Wrap: The Help Still Works on Labor Day 2011-09-05T09:55:00Z Yet despite passages of affecting dialogue and poetic quotations from Gospels and Psalms, the libretto is long and wordy and sounds even more so in Mr. Adamo’s often ponderous musical setting. Music Review: Mark Adamo’s Opera Makes a Wife of Mary Magdalene 2013-06-20T22:14:00Z It goes awry, lost in a wordy fog of menace. 3 late-October plays: grief, trauma, loneliness 2011-10-13T20:15:08Z But the rules have relaxed, as the typical theater song has become wordier and expanded far beyond the traditional 32-bar form. Review: ‘Broadway Premieres’ at Symphony Space 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z The Right One, which samples the Human Leagues's Don't You Want Me?, is a hilariously deadpan, wordy chant about competitiveness, while The Written Word and the title track are bonanzas for fans of arm-waving disco-house. Phenomenal Handclap Band: Form & Control ? review 2012-02-09T23:00:01Z The contents of The Universal Sigh are a bit like Radiohead’s liner notes: abstract, wordy, pretty serious, filled with scratchy artwork, and perhaps hinting at some kind of mystery. ArtsBeat: An Old-Fashioned Promo for Radiohead's New Album 2011-03-29T19:39:17Z Smart, wordy and sweetly sympathetic to lives lived online, “Sidewalls” coasts on Martín and Mariana’s twin voice-overs, alternate musings on themselves and their city. | 'Sidewalls': Gustavo Taretto?s ?Sidewalls? - Review 2011-10-25T23:21:16Z Ms. Musgraves has a smallish but tenacious voice, and her songs are wordy and thick, with no fat whatsoever. Music Review: Kacey Musgraves at the Highline Ballroom 2012-10-19T23:42:36Z When I became a film student, I really began to pay attention to dialogue. I’m a wordy person. Why Ethiopian director Yared Zeleke is generating buzz with 'Lamb,' his first film 2016-01-04T05:00:00Z Equally, if subtitles are too wordy or poorly timed, viewers could become frustrated when reading them. "Squid Game": Why you shouldn’t be too hard on translators 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z We knew the wordy part of Ireland fairly well, and where to find some of its lowland temples. Climbing the summits of Irish literature But no matter how important a cultural figure Dylan is, and no matter how dense and wordy his lyrics are, he's not an author in the same sense that these writers are. Who will win the Nobel Prize in literature? 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z I do not have any wordy signs declaring my philosophy of "Live Laugh Love" or that I "Namaste in Bed;" I own no t-shirt declarations of a "Rosé All Day" ethic. Make this rosé bucatini for the wine mom in your life 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z Clouthier drew a set of 20 intentionally artless pictures of everyday places and things, and made one of the show’s several wordy works: a neon broadside that reads “No Human is Illegal.” In the galleries: Perspectives on blending culture and identity 2020-12-10T05:00:00Z The art and the setting seemed in wordless agreement, like lovers making up after a night of wordy squabbling. Perspective | Is Glenstone a great art museum or a billionaire couple’s folly? 2019-05-28T04:00:00Z The long, wordy text still has the feel of game-play, with Kallman writing the bulk but Auden scoring points for some sharp, abrasive couplets. Aida; Elegy for Young Lovers; O Sonho 2010-05-01T23:07:00Z For those who require a slightly wordier summary, a low-level thug invades a grieving widower's home and murders his adorable beagle puppy – i.e., the "effing around" part. Don't check into Peacock's John Wick spinoff "The Continental," not even to check out Mel Gibson 2023-09-22T04:00:00Z In between albums, he tosses off songs that focus on his tougher side, leaning in to wordy verses largely bereft of melody. St. Vincent’s Synth-Funk ‘Pain,’ and 9 More New Songs 2021-03-05T05:00:00Z “Room 25” is wordy and smart, a young woman narrating her experience with thoughtfulness and fortitude. The Ten Best Albums of 2018 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z The wordiest of the four books also skirts closest to the didactic edge. Picture Books to Help Kids Weather Our Age of Anxiety 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z It’s wordier and weirder than other movie musicals, as it should be. Why “Into the Woods” Matters 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z “When You Finish Saving the World” is, for better or worse, exactly the movie one would expect from the actor, writer and playwright Jesse Eisenberg: wordy, whiny and self-consciously wry. ‘When You Finish Saving the World’ Review: Mother and Son Disunion 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z At the same time, Mr. Duffy’s hyperbolic prose style — not quite David Foster Wallace, but still wordy — grows on you. Books of The Times: The Prodigy Burned Out. Why Not Blame Mom? 2011-08-23T20:39:20Z At one school “concert” in our auditorium, the teenage audience derisively laughed at my wordy, confrontational lyrics. Will Sheff: The First Time an Adult Took Me Seriously 2017-02-01T05:00:00Z Carson Ellis' illustrations give a welcome breather when the story gets a little wordy. 'Wildwood Chronicles' conjures a Portland fantasy 2014-03-26T13:22:10Z But we have scarcely intersected since, and my judgment is not contaminated: I would not recommend his Pulitzer Prize-winning but wordy “Ghost Wars,” for example. Why read a 5-year-old book about ExxonMobil now? Two words: Rex Tillerson 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z From one of the wordy drawings leaps the phrase “It is a good day to die.” How are these things not like the others? 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z Artistic advice Cutting dialogue they saw as overly wordy. A Few of the Producers of ‘A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder’ 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z Despite Jenkins’ spry translation, the show slackens when it is wordiest. Intiman fest opens with a hungry farce, Italian-style 2013-07-15T20:09:34Z On a more downmarket show, you wouldn't use a word like "sobriquet", but University Challenge likes long, wordy questions – a contestant who thinks they're smart will butt in and give the wrong answer. TV's unsung heroes 2010-10-01T23:03:00Z I don't like 'clever' comedy, it's always far too wordy. Paul Feig: Hollywood's accidental feminist 2013-07-20T05:00:00Z Ford's forte is delivering wordy, nuanced meditations on personal and political concerns with verve and aplomb. David Ford 2010-07-13T20:45:00Z Donna eventually turns up too, and as the play ends you come to see that this strange, somewhat wordy journey was about fear of commitment, and that this argument-filled play had a heart after all. Review: ‘The Dreamer Examines His Pillow’ Talks of Love, Lust and Lots More 2015-08-03T04:00:00Z It would be better to say, “the library director” or “my former associate at the library” or even, though this may seem wordy, “the person who hired me and supervised me.” Am I being slandered? 2013-06-12T00:00:00Z Despite earning a decent laugh, this was a work in progress: wordy and a bit imprecise. Critic?s Notebook: Myq Kaplan Gives Birth to a Stand-Up Joke 2012-03-05T23:02:17Z The unlikely friendship story of two very different personalities is wordy fun, with laugh-out-loud dialogue. 3 Illustrated Novels With Animal Magnetism 2020-09-27T04:00:00Z Fondrie's sentence is the shortest winner in the prize's history, "proving that bad writing need not be prolix, or even very wordy", said organisers. Bulwer-Lytton prize for bad writing goes to brutally mangled metaphor 2011-07-27T09:56:04Z The missing link between Andrews Gold and Bird, it's more wordy, groove-laden and polished than ever on their fifth album, Ghost on Ghost. Iron and Wine – review 2013-05-29T16:36:12Z “It is even harder to imagine,” she continued, “why, in 1991, anyone would want to create a ballet drawn from that wordy philosophical poem and set to a relatively minor score by Leonard Bernstein.” Royal Ballet Debuts Liam Scarlett’s ‘The Age of Anxiety’ 2014-11-11T05:00:00Z They’re not wordy, really, but the sensibility is so fundamentally literary. Are literary classics obsolete? 2012-05-31T00:00:00Z The album features arrangements that emphasize keyboards over guitars and redefines frontman Alex Turner — once known for wordy, speedy delivery that was talked as much as sung — as a crooner. Review | British rockers Arctic Monkeys find their way to the Wharf 2018-07-29T04:00:00Z The statistics also support another observation court watchers have made -- Breyer is by far the wordiest justice. Bad omen for healthcare law: Many comments from the justices 2012-03-30T10:00:00Z Lines have been plucked from the novel, yet even at its wordiest, the film is never weighed down by the burden of faithfulness. ‘Martin Eden’ Review: Reading and Writing His Way Out of the Pit 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z He lovingly embroidered the original version of that classic into sequels and revisions, all of which were increasingly wordy and decreasingly interesting. A Doctor’s Guide to What to Read on the Opioid Crisis 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z We see Ludwig’s early efforts at cartoon strips, which flopped: They seem more wordy than witty and lack a colloquial character. Ludwig Bemelmans’s Madeline Celebrates a Milestone 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z As wordy as the production is, it’s also intensely physical. Review: In ‘Paramodernities,’ Words and Dance Do Battle. The Audience Wins. 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z There were some early all-text trials, he recalled, which looked too wordy. 2010-01-15T12:58:00Z But it's the juxtapositions that turn this into such a fascinating experience; albeit one that is by its very nature a wordy one. Bigmouth – Edinburgh festival review 2012-08-24T15:30:00Z Ms. Womack is an exceptional singer with a plangent voice designed for lingering on notes and words, especially plaintive ones — that’s why some of the wordier songs here, like “Tomorrow Night in Baltimore,” feel forced. Albums by Leonard Cohen, Otis Brown III and Lee Ann Womack 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z “We were all working on it in that room together: ‘Is it really going to be this rambly and this wordy?’ Is "Camp Isn't Home" one of the year's best movie songs? Is it, kind of? Kind of, it is 2023-11-15T05:00:00Z Still, the wordy, whip-smart banter flows easily between the two, moving from kinda corny generational riffs to opening old wounds. Review: In 'What Happens Later,' former flames spark as a rom-com queen takes flight 2023-11-03T04:00:00Z But it’s a more difficult song to nail because it’s wordy, Glass said, “and the melody descends in a minor scale which may take some skill.” The ultimate Britney Spears karaoke power rankings 2023-10-24T04:00:00Z His signature slogan is a bit wordy, but delivered with verve and sincerity, which makes sense because he wrote it: “Our installation technique is so precise, we do not break your stucco.” Patt Morrison: Will L.A. ever produce more gimmicky, lovable pitchmen like Cal Worthington? 2023-08-30T04:00:00Z It’s really wordy, though, which makes it super fun for those who have practiced but harder to sing along for those who haven’t. The ultimate Taylor Swift karaoke power rankings 2023-08-03T04:00:00Z There’s a moment, I forget the exact line, where he looks at his friends and he says something super wordy and intricate. Jharrel Jerome of 'I'm a Virgo' is a Libra, but he can channel another star sign 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z After that, Berg says, “the show got more cinematic and more audacious, and less wordy and more tonal.” As 'Barry' comes to an end, Bill Hader the auteur rises 2023-06-19T04:00:00Z Bieniemy’s offense, players say, is particularly “wordy” in that play calls are long. A new sound: Sam Howell mic’d up sessions help Commanders QB take command 2023-05-31T04:00:00Z His wordy dialogue scenes for this highly anticipated revival of the 1960 musical, which had its official opening Thursday night, disrupt the momentum. Review | ‘Camelot’ gets the Aaron Sorkin treatment, with no happily-ever-aftering 2023-04-13T04:00:00Z So Williamson addresses this other Jason in such wordy, impressionistic protest songs as “D.I.Why” and “Force 10 From Navarone.” Collaborations up the ante on Sleaford Mods’ haunting new album 2023-03-29T04:00:00Z Dominion also unearthed a communication in which he criticized an on-screen graphic as being “too wordy” and too “anti Trump.” Fox News bosses scolded reporters who challenged false election claims 2023-03-03T05:00:00Z It was too wordy, he said, and too negative about the president. Fox Leaders Wanted to Break From Trump but Struggled to Make It Happen 2023-02-28T05:00:00Z My takeaway: It can be useful to research complex topics, but its responses are often too wordy to be useful. Catch me up: How to try the new AI tech everyone is talking about 2023-02-10T05:00:00Z However, they often were a little wordy, formulaic and in one case a complete contradiction. Can ChatGPT help me at the office? We put the AI chatbot to the test. 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z Based on my first look, it can be useful to go deep on a complicated topic, but its answers are often too long and too wordy to be useful. Review | Trying Microsoft’s new AI chatbot search engine, some answers are uh-oh 2023-02-07T05:00:00Z In the early years, the walls of the bar provided a gallery for large, wordy, political cartoons by local artist Gordon Anderson. Ciao to a slice of Seattle history 2023-01-27T05:00:00Z It’s often overly emotional, awfully wordy and too repetitive. Where have Republicans been during California's mass shootings? They're busy appeasing the gun worshiping cult 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z But Panic! at the Disco, with its wordy song names, high drama and over-the-top aesthetic that veered toward the burlesque and the vintage, stood on its own. Panic! at the Disco to end after 19 years, frontman Brendon Urie says 2023-01-25T05:00:00Z In most cases, the AI produced relatively suitable responses, though most were wordy. Can ChatGPT help me at the office? We put the AI chatbot to the test. 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z Those mashed hooks tend to form around the wordy deadpan of vocalist Andy Fox, who sounds completely at home in these riptides of intention. Nice Breeze isn’t an indie rock band so much as a paradox machine 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z At times, Rabinowitz’s prose can become a bit wordy in his aspiration to eloquence. Review | Exploring family history through the objects that connect generations 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z “I think the biggest thing with him is him learning our plays, the motion shifts because our plays are wordy,” Fields said. Fields, Bears running game deal with Herbert’s injury 2022-11-16T05:00:00Z That’s a little wordy; Marx summarizes it thusly with a rather blunt bit of philistinism: “Art should avoid being for art’s sake when social equity is at stake.” Opinion | Why Spotify and other streaming services can’t ditch Kanye West 2022-11-07T05:00:00Z “Having the wristband is something that we can always utilize, especially some of the calls that might get a little wordy,” Waldron said. How using wristband has helped Seahawks QB Geno Smith run offense more efficiently 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z Does the early stuff seem overly wordy to you now? Arctic Monkeys' Alex Turner on fame, Frank Sinatra and the elusive search for the 'mega-riff' 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z We found that 64 percent of our respondents preferred to funnel resources toward the case that featured a wordier report. How Much People Write Can Reveal Racial Biases 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z Like “Clueless,” it is a film that feels effortless, energetic and dynamic; it is densely wordy, witty and wise, and it demands to be rewatched as many times as possible. Review: Lena Dunham high-fives 'Clueless' with easy, breezy 'Catherine Called Birdy' 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z Like “Clueless,” it is a film that feels effortless, energetic and dynamic; it is densely wordy, witty and wise, and it demands to be re-watched as many times as possible. ‘Catherine Called Birdy’ review: Lena Dunham’s adaptation an instant teen classic 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z The third chunk of the wordy sentence comes at the end. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z “Now it seems like the writers are a little bit wordier, and there are hints and nudges and clues within the clue,” Ahasic said. Confounded by all the ‘Jeopardy!’ winning streaks? You’re not alone. 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z It isn’t often that a serial playgoer, worn down by other, wordier dramatists, watches the lights come up and hopes they go back down. Review | In ‘Private,’ we ponder where to draw the line on surveillance 2022-03-30T04:00:00Z So we get Masters, by himself, prophesizing doom from a desert or a hayfield, his ads radiating a weird, wordy energy. The Rise of the Tucker Carlson Politician 2022-03-22T04:00:00Z Her “Before and Still” is wordier, yet more cryptic. Review | In the galleries: Elevating the ordinary and mundane to sacred and monumental 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z The second chunk of the wordy sentence is needless, redundant, and repetitive. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z They were a bit wordy, and I didn’t feel like I had enough time to actually prepare. 'West Side Story’s' Ariana DeBose makes the case against 'ethnically ambiguous' 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z Teen TV god Kevin Williamson wrote witty, wordy reams of dialogue, rat-a-tat analyses of horror tropes that made “Scream” something of a screwball slasher. Review: New 'Scream' delivers the same classic self-aware chills as its forerunners 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z Teen TV god Kevin Williamson wrote witty, wordy reams of dialogue for these characters, rat-a-tat analyses of horror tropes that made “Scream” something of a screwball slasher. ‘Scream’ review: Ghostface is back, along with some new blood, in this fifth installment 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z Mr. Adams told investigators that staff memos on the bids were “just too wordy,” and he educated himself by talking to lobbyists and looking at a summary document. What Kind of Mayor Might Eric Adams Be? No One Seems to Know. 2021-10-23T04:00:00Z However, starting a sentence with one of these phrases often forces you into a wordy construction. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z It’s a little long, it’s a little wordy and it could use some editing. Mank's grandson tells all: A tragic portrait of the screenwriting brothers Mankiewicz 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z I used to always call the whole defense — almost like the West Coast system on offense when they’re calling every play, every formation, every motion, and they’re very wordy. Nick Saban, 7 Titles in, on Offenses, Defenses and Changes in College Sports 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z If they were feeling wordier, they might add “Oxford,” since researchers from that university helped create it. World Digest: April 2, 2021 2021-04-02T04:00:00Z They realized some of the language was “getting too wordy,” Enos said, so they made some fixes. Roll Terps? As spring practice starts, Maryland’s Alabama connections are no accident. 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z Only at the end were several wordy phrases condensed: “from the papers and reports, paragraphs and sentences you write for college assignments” was reduced to “from your college papers.” Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z But he wrote in a wordy, often roundabout way that left many wondering what he really believed. Silicon Valley’s Safe Space 2021-02-13T05:00:00Z Well, our defense was very wordy, too, because we were telling the players, “OK, here’s the front, here’s what you play on two-by-two, here’s what you play on the slot.” Nick Saban, 7 Titles in, on Offenses, Defenses and Changes in College Sports 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z The updates his platoons filed every day helped commanders track targets of interest, but they were sometimes wordy or hard to parse. How a retired Army Ranger helped Ron Rivera separate the interesting from the important 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z His wordy response stopped short of the unequivocal denouncement of such language. Key takeaways from the second and final Trump-Biden debate 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z Finally, strengthen verbs by removing weak, wordy structures. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z Then I pick up The Post and stumble on the Weather Gang’s wordy forecast: “It will be another day without much in the way of cloudiness.” Opinion | Readers critique The Post: There are other sports besides football 2020-09-25T04:00:00Z The same Washington Post writer who lavished praise noted his penchant for asking “such wordy, windy, discursive questions” that he’d exhaust most his time in Senate committee hearings. Biden, once an orator, reaches for rhetorical flourish again 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z “Not at all like ads in other cities at the time, that are a lot wordier and a lot more descriptive of the product.” 'Cronk rules everything around me': long-lost beverage resurrected after 120 years 2020-07-03T04:00:00Z The final draft's line, "that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness," was initially wordier. Thomas Jefferson's original Declaration of Independence rough draft: See the pictures 2020-07-03T04:00:00Z Scroll down to the Email Read Receipts section, where you’ll find this wordy option: "Allow email read receipts to be sent to all addresses in my organization as well as the following email addresses." Tech tip: Find out if someone read your email 2020-05-08T04:00:00Z Accused, police, lawyers, members of the jury – all chuckled together at Van Allen’s wordier flights while he was under interrogation. The invisible city: how a homeless man built a life underground 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z Sen. Mike Rounds of South Dakota said the less wordy president’s legal team had “read the Senate” better. 24 hours in, senators flout quaint impeachment rules 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z Which is all a very wordy way of saying here is a video of a congressman caught watching the Presidents Cup during President Trump's impeachment hearings. Congressman caught watching Presidents Cup during President Trump impeachment hearings is your hero of the week - Golf Digest 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z All those wordy, hyphenated descriptors aside, the key selling point is that they’re all chic. ‘Who made my T-shirt? Is it fair trade?’ Shopping for answers at Galerie.LA 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z Who gets to decide such weighty, wordy things? App. Fake news. Hashtag: What will be the word of the decade? 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z A little wordy for the tombstone, but as good an epitaph, and an explanation, for Jonathan Miller as anyone is liable to write. Appreciation: Jonathan Miller, TV 'presenter' extraordinaire 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z Well, first, you ask awfully wordy questions of yourself, but second, I’m glad you asked. Carli Lloyd still has the NFL in the back of her mind 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z But honestly, if you are talking about a competitive threat, wouldn’t you rather listen to a voice-over on a powerful image of lions confronting prey in the jungle than see wordy bullets on a page? How dull must your PowerPoints be for people to actually say so? | Produced by Advertising Publications 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z The book reads quite simply – no fancy, wordy phrases from this Booker nominee – but there is nothing simple about the tale. 'I genuinely felt she was talking to me': readers review Margaret Atwood's The Testaments 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z Such descriptions may be wordier and in some cases less clear — subbing “person” for “illegal alien” doesn’t quite capture the individual’s immigration status — but the board ruled that labels such as “inmate” were “dehumanizing.” San Francisco Board of Supervisors approves resolution barring ‘dehumanizing’ terms 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z I would say it lands a little too far on the wordy side of things, but most of it is ignorable, and Miriam is a likable character. Bloodstained is the Castlevania game you’ve been waiting for 2019-06-28T04:00:00Z "She'd be too wordy, too worthy and she would try to get too much in," best-selling novelist and Tory peer Michael Dobbs says of her early Commons performances. Thatcher as prime minister: That's ridiculous 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z “Very wordy, but it’s fun. It’s what I like.” QB Ryan Finley gets first crack at running Bengals’ offense 2019-05-10T04:00:00Z Your mileage may vary, but Wilson's particular brand of wordy chaotic energy always enlivens the proceedings and brings that unpredictable sense of weird to everything she's in. Review: Anne Hathaway and Rebel Wilson click as madcap scammers in ‘The Hustle’ 2019-05-09T04:00:00Z The handwritten letters are long, wordy and full of detail. American Paul Whelan gets letters to his family from Moscow jail. But Russia remains quiet on spy claims. 2019-05-04T04:00:00Z The two hosts discussed whether “wordy” was a word. Jenna Bush Hager jokes her father, former President George W. Bush, ‘can’t speak English' well 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z Technically, I’d call it ‘randomness’ or something a lot more wordy, but that doesn’t fit well above a column.” The Luckiest Team in the Country Needs a Little More 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z “This resolution doesn’t need to be seven pages. It’s just wordy!” he said. Ilhan Omar anti-Semitic comments condemned in House resolution 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z But here I am verging on yet another wordy thesis about the intentions of Jasper Johns, which, to be authoritative, would need confirming testimony from him. Jasper Johns and the Question of Meaning 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z “You needed the right group of people, definitely, because it’s very wordy. It’s this constant changing from one character to another, and we tried to keep it as free-flowing creatively as possible.” Play to combine all of Shakespeare single production 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z But the story gets needlessly complicated with too many flashbacks, wordy declarations and an escalating string of fights that goes for too long. Review: ‘Hunter X Hunter: The Last Mission’ is strictly for the zealous 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z Then — after wordy explanations of how both men had gone wrong — Trump tried to sum up his increasingly complex problems with a simple explanation. Mounting legal threats surround Trump as nearly every organization he has led is under investigation 2018-12-15T05:00:00Z It is a formal name on a fixture list and the quicker, casual name dropped by fans who think of their team and talk about it too many times a day for wordy ceremony. Dulwich Hamlet: the improbable tale of a tiny football club that lost its home to developers – and won it back 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z But maybe he just thought of it as a really wordy paperweight. Blumhouse’s Jason Blum doesn’t think women want to direct horror 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z The campus was initially known as the Multi-Institutional Academic Health Science & Research Center, but the project’s partners realized that was too wordy. Evansville medical campus dumps its tongue-twisting name 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z The energetic, silly and wordy comedy of the then-unknown troupe was absurd, naughty and endlessly quotable. 'Super Troopers 2': Has it aged, or have we? 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z The show in 1988 was gaseous and wordy - thanks to a strike by the Writers Guild of America that started 35 days before the telecast. The bad, the good and the none _ a look at Oscar hosts 2018-02-16T05:00:00Z For ‘Molly’s Game,’ the first-time director took lessons from the filming of his wordy screenplays for ‘A Few Good Men’ and ‘Moneyball.’ China Recreates the Silk Road to Challenge Hollywood 2017-12-27T05:00:00Z It’s a dizzying ride, and a wordy one; if Sorkin were being paid by the word, he’d have the best deal in Hollywood. Review: ‘Molly’s Game’ makes for an enjoyable tumble 2017-12-27T05:00:00Z Unlike Comcast, it’s quite wordy — though it doesn’t actually say all that much. ISPs won’t promise to treat all traffic equally after net neutrality 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z They have given it an even wordier new name, the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership. Trump’s Mixed Messages Fail to Reassure Asian Allies 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z In no time, they were completing each other’s sentences, extremely wordy ones. At a Playground in Alley Pond Park 2017-11-19T05:00:00Z “I think the biggest thing is learning the playbook. It’s wordy,” Beathard said. Beathard takes placeholder role after 49ers add Garoppolo 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z Never known as a wordy goalie, Quick was downright chatty when discussing his accomplishment, the team’s success and the state of colleague Carey Price. What we learned from the Kings' 4-0 victory over the Canadiens 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z All 2,300-some delegates voted to enshrine the wordy proclamation, “Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era.” China officially elevates Xi Jinping to level of Mao 2017-10-24T04:00:00Z Some subjects and pursuits might be inherently wordier than others. Give researchers a lifetime word limit 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, Professor Oliver - look at your essay - do you not think it is too wordy and fails to pack a succinct punch ? Opinion | Education in the Age of Outrage 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z He hosts a wordy, thought-provoking podcast, Under The Skin, where he talks to academics, politicians and writers about contemporary ideas. Russell Brand: ‘I was a needy person. I'm less mad now’ 2017-09-02T04:00:00Z Judge Catherine Moore reversed the court decision, agreeing with Canfield that the wordy signage prohibited him from slowing down in time. Judge says school-zone sign too wordy, throws out ticket 2017-07-05T04:00:00Z The players are trying to learn an offense that is wordier and much more complex than the one run by coach Chip Kelly last year. 49ers offense going through learning curve 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z “He was really good, but wordy, subtle—you had to pay attention.” Kumail Nanjiani’s Culture-Clash Comedy 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z At the same time Tuesday morning that Trump was tweeting his displeasure, Ryan’s office issued a wordy statement that tried to explain what had happened, and McCarthy held a media briefing. Trump takes aim at House Republicans, and they run for cover 2017-01-03T05:00:00Z Although printing the text on giant planks is picturesque, it doesn’t disguise that the show is as wordy as it is woodsy. Skyscrapers made of wood? NBM show argues for alternative to steel, concrete. 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z But most of what makes it good is that it’s an impeccably solid piece of theatrical work—tightly structured, free of wordy sermonizing, full of surprises. The Play That Explains Trump’s Win 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z It featured comedy galore, but the witty, wordy comedy of Woody Allen or Whit Stillman it was not. Why Vine Was a Bad Match for Twitter 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z The list from the leaked email does include the campaign’s general election choice, “Stronger Together” — as well as a slightly wordier variation, “Together we’re strong.” When Hillary Clinton Tested New Slogans — 85 of Them 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z The songs, co-written with his two sons, are sometimes corny and too wordy. Last surviving member of the Bee Gees comes back for more 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z The question being asked is wordy and vague, its legal consequence unclear, and its primary context seems parochial. Hungarian referendum decides whether to slam the door on migrants 2016-10-01T04:00:00Z For a text message from Zhou, this was wordy. Adventures on the China Golf Tour 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z Despite its success, the wordy tragicomedy did not scream out for a film adaptation. Controversy, a first-time director and combustible stars: 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' was hardly a sure thing 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z Band of Horses takes it easy on “Why Are You OK,” wordy songs rooted in domestic situations that pleasantly glide but rarely soar. Review: Band of Horses takes it easy on ‘Why Are You OK’ 2016-06-15T04:00:00Z Trump shot back with a wordy reference to Clinton’s email server scandal and the size of her camp. 'Delete your account': Hillary Clinton delivers Twitter burn to Donald Trump 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z That means slightly more wordy tweets are on the way. Business Highlights 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z That means more wordy tweets are on the way. Coming Soon to Twitter: More Room to Tweet 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z But, at its heart, this wordy list amounts to a statement of Clinton’s confidence in two things. Clinton’s wonky policies of fine-grained complexity contrast with rivals’ grandiose ideas 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z His long, wordy speeches are in marked contrast to the snappy use of social media and the internet by today's generation of IS operatives. Does Bin Laden's death leave a lasting legacy? - BBC News 2016-05-01T04:00:00Z It replaces the wordy and sometimes confusing “State University of New York Buffalo” fixture, in which “New York” was emphasized. University at Buffalo puts ‘Buffalo’ back on its logo 2016-04-12T04:00:00Z Songs that are too complicated or too wordy don’t fly. Zumba Turns Sweat and Shimmy Into Hit Songs 2016-02-27T05:00:00Z Poindexter, by contrast, is a wordier, more openly confessional kind of writer. Instagram poets society: selfie age breeds life into verse and has a new following 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z What follows is a wordy, predictable groaner: the kids these days, Denby writes, are unable to connect to each other outside digital technologies and uninterested in reading the classics. Teen readers aren't in crisis, they're just making their own rules 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z But Bergman’s wordy appeal — and threat — seemed to work. The great post-blizzard parking struggle: Pleas, threats and lawn chairs 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z Also, “one of the reasons” is unnecessarily wordy. Here's Someone You Never Heard of. Read On. 1453-09-24T05:00:00Z Canadian foursome Nap Eyes exists within a proud tradition of shambling, wordy rock bands, one that stretches back nearly half a century to the urban fables of The Velvet Underground and The Modern Lovers. This is your next jam: Brandy, Yeasayer, and more 2016-01-08T05:00:00Z Another, wordier, translation: “When you need things done, ask a man, because women only talk and don’t arrive to a conclusion.” How a ‘sexist’ quote from 16th-century pope became Maryland’s state motto 2016-01-01T05:00:00Z Although AP’s recommended phrase “those who reject mainstream climate science” is “not half bad,” it’s so wordy that the weaker term “doubter” may win by default, Romm argues in a blog post. At Associated Press, no more climate skeptics or deniers 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z The letter to McDermott, less wordy than his typical missives, is, however, unique in its theological content. Charles Darwin letter repudiating the Bible heads to auction 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z “Rather than getting caught up in wordy and ambiguous expressions, we will continue to press Japan to put in practical efforts for sincere remorse over its past and for peace.” With WWII statement, Japan’s Abe tried to offer something for everyone 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z Written Burmese has no spaces between words and is generally wordier than English. Those Who Would Remake Myanmar Find That Words Fail Them 2015-07-19T04:00:00Z Between wordy courtroom fights and a climactic donnybrook at the New York Comic Con, great swaths of “Ted 2” sag into a punchy, sluggishly overlong assemblage of stunts and calculated provocation. ‘Ted 2’ movie review 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z And Seinfeld was already a very wordy show, making accurate translation that much more critical. What's the deal with translating Seinfeld 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z But his wordy, muddled response to Kelly’s follow-up didn’t help matters. Jeb Bush’s unfortunate honesty 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z This tension was on display in the wordy campaign slogan attached to his lectern: “Defeat the Washington machine — Unleash the American dream.” Rand Paul launches 2016 bid as a fresh-faced disrupter in the field 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z Article is too wordy, repeats itself over and over. Does watching sport make us happy? 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z Like most Russian rom-coms, the movie seems overly long, wordy and ridiculously chaste. ‘Out of My Mouth Comes Unimpeachable Manly Truth’ 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z If your posts sound robotic, formulaic, or overly wordy, it’s going to be clear to your user base that you’re phoning it in. The 7 Most Important Qualities Of Social Brands 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z Among the mostly laudatory retrospectives were joking asides about Bill Clinton’s wordy speeches, occasionally explosive temper and unruly management style. At library celebration, Bill Clinton and others talk up the past, but not the future Is a sentence too wordy, overly complex, or totally unreadable? How to Write a Cover Letter: 31 Tips You Need to Know 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z Waiting to hear your reply, with best regards – This is too pushy and too wordy. 89 Ways To Sign Off On An Email 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z In other words, from an investment perspective, this wordy dispute is much ado about nothing — unless winning this dispute forces all the other publishers to cave. Will Amazon's Revenues Rise $11.2 Million If Hachette Caves? 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z Big thanks to the Seattle Times sports desk of cleaning up a wordy, mess of a game story last night. Tuesday's pregame notes and lineups vs. the Astros 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z Mr. Clinton’s speech that year turned out to be the least wordy of his tenure. In Newly Released Clinton Papers, Ire Over Speeches 2014-06-07T04:00:00Z He would consider Pete Carroll's "Always compete" mantra as too wordy. Darryl Sutter is Kings' leading man, even if it doesn't suit his style 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z The remaining bios fell short because they were wordy, boring, filled with meaningless business jargon or obviously thrown together without any thought about what would interest the reader. What To Do When You Need A Bio, Rather Than A Résumé 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z You suspect the Kings' thank-you notes to the Columbus Blue Jackets might be getting too long and too wordy right now. Jeff Carter does it again, leading Kings to 4-3 win and series lead 2014-05-25T04:00:00Z “I appreciate what Ted Leo’s trying to do. He’s just a bit too wordy.” REVIEW: Aimee Mann and Ted Leo Harmonize Well as The Both 2014-04-18T15:58:03Z A game with three announcers in a booth can be overly wordy. Fox Sees Chemistry in New Baseball Booth 2014-03-04T01:04:39Z To compare a pair of compasses to the souls of lovers, however, would be wordy trickery too far. Beyond compare 2013-08-28T17:20:02.983Z In my limited experience, the more weekly, traditional, wordy and formulaic a magazine is the better suited it is to reading off a screen. Tablet editions of magazines are no quick cure for the industry 2013-07-28T17:48:00Z So, in India, the largest Kensyian intervention to generate work for the rural poor is titled Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, a title so wordy that it sounds like a misadventure. India Ink: The War on Misguided Youth and Other Indian Euphemisms 2013-06-27T06:09:29Z On Wednesday all eyes will be on its HQ near the Eiffel Tower, where it is expected to publish its latest paper on the subject, and, within its wordy shell, present a coherent strategy. OECD under pressure to devise new corporate tax regime 2013-05-28T19:20:56Z There were 11 wordy constitutional amendment proposals, on top of local measures. Florida Lawmakers Approve Overhaul of State’s Problem-Ridden Voting Process 2013-05-04T00:59:47Z In an Amazon review of the 2013 book Creation, written by former Nature editor Adam Rutherford, one critic takes issue with what he describes as the work’s “wordy trickery”. Beyond compare 2013-08-28T17:20:02.983Z And the game is wordy and dense with the level design chops to realise expert narrative space and pacing. Gone Home – and how games can tell stories about everyday lives 2013-04-26T12:50:33Z Our tax code is wordy, about 4 million words. 13 Surprising Facts About Your Taxes 2013-03-24T16:25:48Z It's too long, too wordy, and you aren't using your eyes. Ian Breach obituary 2013-01-27T13:12:47Z The Communist Party’s Beijing Municipal Committee has deemed that “news publishers are also required to shorten the lengths of stories on officials’ activities, which have often bored people due to the stories’ wordy, meaningless style.” China's Anti-Corruption Toolkit: No Flowers, Expensive Booze or 'Empty Talk' 2012-12-26T22:50:24Z The G8 group of rich countries published a wordy declaration in May, but has done little since. Fake pharmaceuticals: Bad medicine 2012-10-11T15:07:28Z Messina, asked if the famously wordy Obama would work on keeping his answers shorter, smiled and said, "That's never going to be our strong suit." In the spin room, Republicans gloat, Democrats struggle 2012-10-04T08:35:39Z Daily Journal Writing Without the Hassle of Paper Despite being a wordy sort of fellow, I’ve never put pen to paper daily to create a meaningful diary. App Smart: Daily Journal Writing Without the Inconvenience - App Smart 2012-09-19T22:03:51Z Firstly, the show's inbuilt drama – can Tyson carry almost two hours of wordy monologue without a prompter, and the answer is yes. Mike Tyson's Broadway debut: weird, a little combative and not very grown up 2012-08-03T16:30:00Z Also, as if it needed saying, this is going to be pretty wordy, and relatively few of those words will be unqualified superlatives. The Dark Knight Rises: Clearing Its Own Bar? 2012-07-23T16:49:47Z So the "zero draft", as it's named, is a very long, wordy, worthy document. Caroline Spelman interview: 'It's in our interests to be green and growing' 2012-06-15T14:48:14Z Doubtless quarrels seldom got as far as blows; but bad temper and wordy warfare were common. Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 2012-04-27T02:00:38.817Z As for the badge I am wearing, I went for the wordy cop-out: “medical student blogger.” Words, influence, and identity 2012-04-11T20:15:00.470Z Lewis immediately struck up a wordy war, until the master's attention was excited and he commanded silence. Mildred Arkell, Volume II (of 3) A Novel 2012-04-06T02:00:29.933Z Let us, too, take an oath--this 22nd of July; not with uplifted hands like a club of wordy debaters, promising all things to all men; but with uplifted swords. The Red Cockade 2012-03-30T02:00:19.603Z Warm contention in words; dispute carried on with heat or anger; controversy; wrangle; wordy contest. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z And round each brood was a little group of townsfolk, making critical survey of the birds and, after a good deal of wordy chaffering, purchasing. The Fortunate Isles Life and Travel in Majorca, Minorca and Iviza 2012-03-21T02:00:34.053Z "If I only could learn the wordy part of it," she said to herself, "I am sure I have the right thoughts to put into a poem." The Dorrance Domain 2012-03-10T03:00:14.767Z Alike in religious and political life he was impatient of sentimentalism, of rhetorical feeling, of wordy enthusiasm. Hegel's Philosophy of Mind 2012-03-07T03:00:14.327Z The ladies had the good sense to remain silent, with the exception of an "Equal Rights" woman, whose wordy interposition clearly proved that "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread!" The American Gentleman's Guide to Politeness and Fashion or, Familiar Letters to his Nephews 2012-03-01T03:00:22.883Z Rough drafts are naturally wordy because you’re thinking as you write. 10 Quick Tips to Become a Better Writer 2012-02-16T10:33:00Z And socialism seems to me to have almost smothered its soul-stirring ideal in a wordy effort to seem logical. Comrade Yetta 2012-02-15T03:00:24.213Z It happened that Mr. Shuck was standing in the strip of garden before his house, carrying on a wordy war over the palings with Mrs. Quale, when Darby came up. A Life's Secret A Novel 2012-02-13T03:00:17.060Z As the Master's arm swung back for a second blow, he heard, just behind, a low, throaty growl that held all the menace of ten thousand wordy threats. Lad: A Dog 2012-02-08T03:00:19.720Z In the next few years a half dozen wordy tragedies by Sheil were acted. Tragedy 2012-01-31T03:00:19.343Z I cut my Negotiating for Wimps post in half when I edited it, and as I re-read it I think it's still a little wordy. 10 Quick Tips to Become a Better Writer 2012-02-16T10:33:00Z Next morning, after a long and wordy argument with the head gaoler on the subject of masks, he was haled in triumph to the house. The Black Moth A Romance of the XVIIIth Century 2012-01-31T03:00:13.827Z And there we stood over against one another, the finest brace of cowards in Christendom, each seeking to overcome the other by a wordy braggadocio. The Courtship of Morrice Buckler A Romance 2012-01-26T03:00:17.027Z That there were discomforts and accidents is evident from the wordy warfare of advertisements that followed upon the starting of the Royal Brighton Four Horse Company in 1802. The Brighton Road The Classic Highway to the South 2012-01-24T03:00:26.933Z He had to carry the brunt of those wordy battles about the increased taxes. The Rise of the Dutch Kingdom 1795-1813 2012-01-19T03:00:20.007Z Then he spoke in bitter dislike of Hudson, the wordy, humorous, shallow leader of the movement in Eberwich; it was Hudson with his wriggling and his clap-trap who disgusted George with the cause. The White Peacock 2012-01-14T03:00:21.627Z After an astounding display of wordy pyrotechnics the dazed and bewildered stranger asked: 'What is going to be the upshot of this comet business?' Abraham Lincoln, Volume 1 (of 2) The True Story Of A Great Life 2012-01-05T03:00:35.370Z The intelligent workmen understand the reasons for the reduction without a wordy explanation, and accept it, feeling confident that it has not been unjustly made. Scientific American, Vol. XXXIX.?No. 24. [New Series.], December 14, 1878 A Weekly Journal Of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, And Manufactures 2012-01-05T03:00:31.783Z This wordy woman shall tell me something more Of her charge against me spread so loud and rife. The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition 2012-01-04T03:00:37.750Z That is, he will weep, fight, fast, tear himself, drink bitterness, and eat monstrosities: and this is his challenge of Laertes to the true testimony of his love, in contrast to his wordy lamentation. Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 96, August 30, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. 2011-12-26T03:00:11Z The Illyrian, however, lacked eloquence, and felt ill at ease in carrying on a wordy warfare. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First 2011-12-12T03:00:27.507Z The lot of the Spanish labourer is none of the happiest, certainly; but it may be doubted if they will mend it by argument and wordy warfare any more than by force. Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration 2011-12-05T03:00:38.980Z Husband and wife had a wordy argument on this point. The Stronger Influence 2011-12-02T03:00:23.630Z The will was the usual wordy, legal document. A Master of Deception 2011-11-30T03:00:12.357Z There were frequent wordy quarrels upon the streets, and threats of violence; and many supposed that it would be impossible to prevent the opposing factions from fighting in good earnest. Stories of the Badger State 2011-11-27T03:00:12.687Z In order to shelter Almor� and myself from the wordy missiles which fell like hail all dinner-time, I had a little table laid for us two in a separate apartment. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First 2011-12-12T03:00:27.507Z Art-critics are wordy and ignorant, praising from caprice rather than from conscience. From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey 2011-11-26T03:00:12.337Z Fear of these ghosts prompted her to suggest taking the children with her, a proposal which led to a wordy discussion as to ways and means. The Stronger Influence 2011-12-02T03:00:23.630Z We are told by this wordy defender of the faith that the Christian Scriptures are "the Supreme Bible of Humanity"—as though, if it be the Word of God, it could be anything less. The Book Of God In The Light Of The Higher Criticism 2011-11-24T03:00:46.897Z This is a wordy paraphrase of Spinoza's: "All existence is self-assertion, and Morality is only the highest and purest form of this fundamental instinct in a reasonable being." Morals and the Evolution of Man 2011-11-14T03:00:18.930Z In my original version there were two sentences, it’d be too wordy if there were three. Murong Xuecun?s Acceptance Speech for the 2010 People?s Literature Prize 2011-11-07T00:52:17Z It seems now very much the custom to admire a certain wordy, intricate, obscure style of poetry, such as Elizabeth Barrett Browning writes. Charlotte Bront? A Monograph 2011-11-01T02:00:20.233Z Though his sentences themselves are not wordy, he is extremely diffuse in treatment, habitually repeating an idea in successive sentences of much the same import. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 1 "Franciscans" to "French Language" 2011-10-22T02:00:29.487Z They are somewhat more wordy than we wish they were, but they are wholesome, and the author's purpose is always a lofty one. The World's Best Books : A Key to the Treasures of Literature 2011-10-20T02:00:20.857Z But the Girondins gained no tangible result from this wordy warfare. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" 2011-10-14T02:00:26.280Z Achilles in his wrath could rage, But scarce would stoop the wordy war to wage With poisoned epithet and shrewish flout Like scorpion-tongued Thersites. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105, September 16th, 1893 2011-10-02T02:00:16.433Z That was the man from whom she had separated after a wordy war over wordy books. The Cassowary What Chanced in the Cleft Mountains 2011-09-24T02:00:16.927Z For several days Sandie had to endure much chaff and wordy persecution from the lads and lasses about his diminutive stature and his uncouth figure. Annie o' the Banks o' Dee 2011-09-12T02:00:26.230Z In their wordy conflicts they are politic enough to allow their opponent to get the best of it. Yankee Girls in Zulu Land 2011-08-31T02:01:39.710Z Our march to the sealing-ground was enlivened by a little logomachy, or wordy war, between the first mate and the doctor. In Touch with Nature Tales and Sketches from the Life 2011-08-31T02:01:35.803Z A hundred and fifty of Shays’ men were captured, but their valiant and wordy leader escaped. Stage-coach and Tavern Days 2011-08-31T02:01:27.587Z It might almost be called a reticent style, in its neglect of those wrappings of wordy illustration and amplification which so many historians employ. English Lands Letters and Kings Queen Anne and the Georges 2011-08-29T02:01:10.603Z A vigorous, opinionated writer, with a style which is vivid and picturesque, but often wordy and obscure. A Brief Handbook of English Authors 2011-08-15T02:00:26.603Z A wordy struggle followed, in which it seemed to Volodyovski that he recognized some known voice; therefore he called to the servant not to forbid entrance further. With Fire and Sword An Historical Novel of Poland and Russia. 2011-08-12T02:00:19.797Z This does not mean, of course, noisy, wordy praying, but quiet raising of the mind to God and acts of resignation to their condition so long as they may be affected. Religion And Health 2011-08-12T02:00:18.323Z Hence in all trees, we hear in starry night, The contradiction, and the wordy fight. Papers from Overlook-House 2011-08-07T02:00:08.643Z Every one of its turgid and wordy lines bespeaks the struggling infancy of a National literature. Old Trails on the Niagara Frontier 2011-08-06T02:00:04.917Z He is copious in the use of language, yet is not wordy; his language is direct and to the point. Biography of Rev. Hosea Ballou 2011-08-04T02:00:22.900Z It was not often that she called him by his Christian name save in the heat of wordy strife, and perhaps the very unexpectedness of it touched him. A Tatter of Scarlet Adventurous Episodes of the Commune in the Midi 1871 2011-08-04T02:00:19.957Z In spite of the numerous wordy tilts she and I are 71 always having, I’m awfully fond of Gus. Marjorie Dean, College Senior 2011-08-01T02:00:12.720Z It settled on a wordier message highlighting its natural ingredients. Businesses find they can?t grow without branding 2011-07-31T18:54:44Z In the light of the above consideration the long and wordy contest that has been waged between "Altruists" and "Egoists" is seen to be very largely a waste of time and a splutter of words. A Grammar of Freethought 2011-07-30T02:00:13.083Z A wordy war ensued between Dr. Wortley and Delilah, and the doctor renewed the threat he had been making at intervals for twenty-five years. Throckmorton 2011-07-25T02:00:15.900Z Bones captured the chair at one end, and Tambo pre-empted that on the other; and they began their wordy skirmish with the Middleman, in which that pompous presiding officer always got the worst of it. A Book About the Theater 2011-07-21T02:00:23.843Z So far, the most ardent — and the wordiest— is the one by the judicial associations, which runs 247 pages. Commission to Set Raises for Judges in New York State Is Flooded With Suggestions 2011-07-18T01:20:03Z “I suppose Mahomet must go to the mountain, then,” observed Miss Porter, and she moved graciously over to the log, where she regaled Molly with a great deal of wordy talk. Molly Brown's Junior Days 2011-07-14T02:00:11.180Z The love-story of poor Louisa is of a different kind, and more wordy in the telling; yet here also the feelings painted are natural and true. Dickens English Men of Letters 2011-07-13T02:00:19.017Z Eustace and the two Wandsborough girls were deep in a wordy war of banter and laughter, the former steering villainously in consequence. Dorrien of Cranston 2011-07-07T02:00:31.540Z So a wordy war ensued, in the course of which the door was banged and the deposed traveller shot with more vehemence than grace half-way across the compartment, and the train started. Fordham's Feud 2011-07-05T02:00:31.267Z Then they drift back to their first topic and are soon absorbed in their wordy revolt against Jethro Bass and Bijah. Dramatic Technique 2011-07-04T02:00:19.763Z You, dear lady, And her sweet friend, the gentle Adelaide, Have such a holy place in all her thoughts, That 'twere irreverence to waste her sense In wordy compliment. The Count of Narbonne A Tragedy, in Five Acts 2011-07-03T02:00:12.153Z She can be wordy but she is deft at dodging a question or steering a conversation toward a theme she finds more comfortable. Analysis: Hugs, politics: Michelle Obama's savvy helps husband 2011-06-27T12:01:34Z Click it, and you'll be able to say your search into your computer's mike, saving you the trouble of typing queries that are wordy or hard to spell. Google Steps Up Its Search Engine Game 2011-06-16T09:00:00Z Then the doctor and I talked, I in Danish and he in German, and we had a wordy war. Missing Friends Being the Adventures of a Danish Emigrant in Queensland (1871-1880) 2011-06-15T02:00:22.810Z Further details are given at great length, and in rather a wordy manner. The Pictorial Press Its Origin and Progress 2011-06-15T02:00:20.920Z Still O'Grady kept whispering his strange disclosures, and, under the upper stratum of wordy clamor, the sly detectives, led by Davenport, dug away at the secret lead, with hopes of coming treasure. Faithful Margaret A Novel 2011-06-10T02:00:21.627Z To what length the disputants would have gone it is impossible to say, but the opportune arrival of Lord Willoughby and Sir Charles Bassett settled the wordy strife. The Winning of the Golden Spurs 2011-05-17T02:00:18.050Z The wordy piece of rhetoric that was published after winning him the prize is enriched by some pictorial effects that are almost effects of poetry. Oscar Wilde A Critical Study 2011-05-04T02:00:14.580Z In your own differences with others you will seek a path of peaceful, even though wordy, settlement. Manual of the Enumeration A Text Book on the Sciences of the Enumeration 2011-05-02T02:00:20.220Z Grant Jones, the most quiet and thoughtful member of the party, seldom entered into the wordy contests, although he took special delight in the pranks of his comrades. The Go Ahead Boys and the Mysterious Old House 2011-04-27T02:00:27.420Z The new episode was as a "wordy episode which concentrated more on atmosphere than pace and visual thrills". Doctor Who opener watched by 6.4m 2011-04-24T13:07:45Z What that is picturesque, or what that is vital in the esteem of the partisan, is there in these wordy contests about contemplated legislation? Congressional Government A Study in American Politics 2011-04-15T02:00:18.863Z But the youthful poet invested the simple love-story of his Florio and Biancofiore with a masquerade costume of mythological erudition and wordy rhetoric, which removed it from the middle ages. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z The great man came to the country place, To preach to farmers sturdy; He said: "I'm in my happiest vein, I'll be eloquent and wordy." The Cornflower, and Other Poems 2011-04-07T02:00:18.740Z Nor was it till after a long and desperate wordy altercation that the clamor was subdued, and decorum at length restored. The Knight Of Gwynne, Vol. I (of II) 2011-04-04T02:00:09.197Z The separate edition of 1814 devoted seven pages of the added notes to a wordy discussion of his work and to personal advice. Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats 2011-04-02T02:00:11.477Z A little later, while the others were engaged in some wordy dispute, Jack quietly slipped into the little tender attached to the Tramp and paddled softly off out of the cove. Motor Boat Boys on the St. Lawrence 2011-04-01T02:00:41.017Z Consumers, certainly, are unlikely to be impressed by either the menu or the wordy, unfunny manifesto that announced it. In Defense of Bacon: What Denny's Doesn't Get 2011-03-30T09:30:00Z “We just had to dig to provide enough for you—when we heard you had invited yourself to dinner with us,” retorted Zan, who always enjoyed a wordy combat with her father. The Woodcraft Girls in the City 2011-03-27T02:00:11.007Z On the contrary, he still sat composedly in his saddle, no sign of drawing sword, exhibiting a sang froid curiously in contrast with the warmth he had shown in the wordy disputation. No Quarter! 2011-03-26T02:00:16.330Z You may insult the understanding of Englishmen, as you repeatedly do, with your wordy sophistry, and mystify the masses, who ‘run as they read.’ Mayne Reid A Memoir of his Life 2011-03-23T02:00:25.120Z But Jack had no desire to stand there and enter into a wordy war with Clarence, who had a ready tongue, and never cared very much where it led him. Motor Boat Boys on the St. Lawrence 2011-04-01T02:00:41.017Z Warned by the event of overnight, the savages think better of it, and before getting too close, come to a stop, and content themselves with wordy threats and a brandishing of weapons. The Lost Mountain A Tale of Sonora 2011-03-23T02:00:19.250Z Hector had rather a serious wordy encounter with Fletcher Denyer, who called him nasty names, and plainly said he had willfully deceived him about Tearaway. Fast as the Wind A Novel 2011-03-22T02:00:19.407Z In my original version there were two sentences, it'd be too wordy if there were three. Full Text: 'Absurdities of China's Censorship System' 2011-02-22T09:30:00Z She had a vision of the encounter between her lover and her father; a wordy tournament in which the former bore off the honours. A Practical Novelist 2011-02-19T03:01:38.957Z Poor Nan was backed up against her chair, blushing furiously and almost in tears of confusion, while Bess was carrying on her wordy battle with Linda, a few steps up the aisle. Nan Sherwood at Lakeview Hall Or the Mystery of the Haunted Boathouse 2011-02-14T03:00:33.337Z When Titus shook his fist in the face of the planter, he leaped upon the colt as though he had been fifty pounds lighter, and galloped to the scene of the wordy contest. Brother Against Brother The War on the Border 2011-02-09T03:00:46.430Z They reached the bungalow, and as Swinton pushed open a wooden door he was greeted by wordy tumult. The Three Sapphires 2011-02-07T03:00:24.770Z As Ovid tells us of his own experience, the Muses wooed him irresistibly away from the practical pursuits of the "wordy forum," and claimed him for their own. Studies in the Poetry of Italy, I. Roman 2011-02-06T03:00:58.870Z Indeed, the two men waged so public and wordy a warfare365 that Bach's social relations with the one and official connection with the other must have been rendered difficult. Johann Sebastian Bach 2011-01-26T03:00:27.060Z The high spirits of the two younger people dominated the conversation, as they jested and bantered, laughed, and crossed wits in little wordy sword-plays that called forth applause and encouragement from the others. The Delafield Affair 2011-01-19T03:00:21.497Z There are no clocks out there, no miserable appointments to keep, no laying of foolish foundation stones, or inspecting of sweating troops, no diplomatic speeches, no wordy documents signifying nothing. Burning Sands 2011-01-17T03:00:53.930Z Weaker efforts are too wordy, lack originality, fail to identify the one thing that most makes the moment special or, as in Musburger's case Monday, they take the audience out of the action. Rosenthal: BCS Tostitos' plug in poor taste 2011-01-12T06:00:00Z Defense analysts said that the document was wordy and asked more questions than it answered. NATO Document Addresses Nuclear Disarmament 2010-10-01T03:01:00Z But there has to be a way to measure the hot weather’s toll in more than just sweaty but wordy annoyance. Finding Many Ways to Say It?s Too Darn Hot 2010-07-22T19:47:00Z Many people create wordy, confusing slides because they intend to send or e-mail them to recipients. In Defense of PowerPoint 2010-05-11T17:32:00Z But we crave an answer to the mystery, and instead all we get is a wordy circular slog in the primitive muck. Books: The Drug Addict Who Gave America Modern Surgery 2010-04-26T20:58:00Z Franklin was fond of wordy contention at that time, and it was possibly a good mental training for him. The True Benjamin Franklin You seem when in company with others to ignore my remarks to you entirely, and treat them with proud disdain, as if shame took the place of pride at my wordy approach! Irene Iddesleigh Collections of all nationalities, and the reserves of all professions and handicrafts, were studiously drawn upon to furnish subject-matter for these wordy encounters. A Cursory History of Swearing I have no faith in outspoken resolves of wordy declamation: not sure of ourselves, we fortify our weak resolutions through the ear and the eye, by spoken and written adjurations, and promises of amendment. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 8 Their wordy war only made the writer and the weaver more thirsty; every argument was followed by a draught, which slaked at once both thirst and revenge. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 5 He did not know then that while men were dying in hundreds around the gate and elsewhere, the Franciscan had won a wordy victory behind the locked doors. The Great Mogul As a counterblast, El Dia had appeared the morning following the death of the king, with a heavy, wordy, black-bordered leading article in which the influence of Spain was barely disguised. The Princess Galva A Romance The modern Athens became once more disturbed by wordy warfare. Sir James Young Simpson and Chloroform (1811-1870) Masters of Medicine Anyhow, the wordy Grandee had come to the point, and the point had to be faced or run from. A Poached Peerage What are her image and attributes when dragged from her wordy lurking-place? The Old Riddle and the Newest Answer No time remains for wordy jars; Things for prompt action call. The Wisdom of Confucius with Critical and Biographical Sketches I'll put up with these wordy battles in winter, when they may at least result in warming us. The Children of the World Nor is Mr. Wilde too wordy alone; he is too paradoxical. Oscar Wilde: Art and Morality A Defence of "The Picture of Dorian Gray" "Least of all a Scot," put in the Englishman, who had been following with some difficulty the wordy warfare. The Firebrand One man or woman who succeeds in living comfortably by begging is more dangerous to society, and a greater obstacle to the progress of humanity, than a score of wordy Socialists. The Library and Society Reprints of Papers and Addresses I am afraid we began our acquaintance with a wordy war. The Fortunes of Philippa A School Story This wordy warfare filled the town with dirty libels. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi Volume the Second I feared to utter some of the platitudes which cause the sorrowing to revolt against the futility of wordy consolation. A Top-Floor Idyl Congress as usual had plenty of wordy patriots who raised the cry of "Fifty-four forty or fight," and it was repeated throughout the country. The Greater Republic A History of the United States Reporters often give to their stories a wordy and turgid flavor by their refusal to repeat a word, preferring a synonym. The Style Book of The Detroit News They were all in an instant on their feet, and apparently sobered, or nearly so, by the unfortunate issue of the wordy tumult. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. 22, March, 1852, Volume 4. I find Masonry as wordy at home as it is dastardly abroad; for dastardly it is, not to be perfectly open. Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine Usually, too, it closed the wordy clashes in which the two boys frequently engaged. The Auto Boys' Mystery He is young, conceited, and wordy, but sincere in his belief that he has wisdom which his elders and betters have not found. The Bible Story The quarrel at first seemed rather comic; after a wordy battle they came to blows and pulling of hair, till the students were driven ignominiously from the field. Women of Mediæval France Woman: in all ages and in all countries Vol. 5 (of 10) Well," said he, as I concluded, "he used n't to be so wordy as that. A Day's Ride A Life's Romance One of the commonest experiences of the open-air preacher on the borders of Afghanistan is the wordy warfare in which he is obliged to engage with some bellicose Mullah. Among the Wild Tribes of the Afghan Frontier A Record of Sixteen Years' Close Intercourse with the Natives of the Indian Marches Her voice was often heard in wordy warfare with her husband, and his face sometimes showed signs that their conflicts were not confined to words. The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 1 March 1906 They were tall, muscular, and seemed to be listening to his fluent and wordy narrative of the annex-show. Belford's Magazine, Vol 2, December 1888 If the speech of real life is broken and fragmentary, it is also impossibly wordy and purposeless. The Technique of Fiction Writing Grounsell understood too well the wordy absurdity with which her Ladyship, on the least excitement, was accustomed to launch forth, quite forgetful of all the impertinence into which it betrayed her. The Daltons, Volume II (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life Jacques Haret was worthy of her steel in a wordy war, and the temptation was too great for this militant lady. Francezka A wordy war ensued, but the first-comer was stalwart and determined. Si Klegg, Book 5 (of 6) The Deacon's Adventures At Chattanooga In Caring For The Boys Dirrul felt divorced from the Movement, existing in suspended animation in a cloud of wordy unreality. The Instant of Now “That means a wordy warfare,” she said gayly. The Silent Barrier And yet it is marvelous how a patent is vexed and worried in these matters by the present wordy manner of confessing. Works of Martin Luther With Introductions and Notes (Volume I) She has urged us, cheered us, led us, till this day has grown out of our wordy plans. Trusia A Princess of Krovitch You talk to me in parables, Chamont: You may have known that I'm no wordy man. The Orphan or, The Unhappy Marriage Such patriotism seemed altogether too wordy to be genuine. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 93, July, 1865 Their merchandise is the thoughts of God, which they defile with wordy traffic, understanding them not. Mad Shepherds and Other Human Studies The discussions were, as a rule, neither long, wordy, nor tiresome. History of the Constitutions of Iowa They sat on the fence and a wordy discussion followed. Threads of Grey and Gold In thus referring to the manner in which the Northern newspapers mentioned the respective combatants whose deeds their reporters pretended to record, I have no wish to provoke a renewal of the wordy war. History of Morgan's Cavalry One man may give a long, wordy, dry essay on a topic of conversation, and another may speak a sentence of a score words which shall contain far more sense than his long discourse. Talkers With Illustrations The piece plays in five acts, one act too many, and is slow in action, and unusually wordy, even for the German stage, where the public likes dialogues a half-hour at a stretch. Ivory Apes and Peacocks Scarce anything fell under his notice but he perceived in it some relation to his work, and chronicled it in the pages of his journal in his always lucid, but sometimes inexact and wordy, style. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 16 (of 25) But the propertied classes did not mind wordy criticism so long as it was not backed by political action. History of the Great American Fortunes, Vol. I Conditions in Settlement and Colonial Times A long and wordy paper of precautions, a fo’c’sle bill of rights, must be read separately to each man. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 13 (of 25) The poss� felt ugly, but they did not harm the justice and after some wordy warfare rode away again, leaving Munro to get his horse up and harnessed again to the sledge without their help. With Ethan Allen at Ticonderoga In that part of the interview that is dull or wordy, give the pith of what is said in one or two brief sentences, then fall into direct quotation again when his words become interesting. News Writing The Gathering , Handling and Writing of News Stories The polemical divinity which he refers to as putting the country half-mad was the wordy war that was being carried on at that time between the Auld Lights and the New Lights. Robert Burns Famous Scots Series Thus no opportunity is given for self-deception or a frivolous excuse based upon wordy boasting of one's faith. Epistle Sermons, Vol. III Trinity Sunday to Advent Parliament opened yesterday; not a bad speech, though wordy and ill-written. The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. II He stared as the parties continued their wordy justification of this well-ruled household like one dreaming with his eyes open. The Humourous Story of Farmer Bumpkin's Lawsuit The battle raged loud and long; and pamphleteer rent pamphleteer in endless, wordy warfare. The Winning of Popular Government A Chronicle of the Union of 1841 She could not even provoke her to the wordy combats of old. Hope Mills or, Between Friend and Sweetheart The little flock circled about a group of euphorbias and lighted upon sycamores, growing at some distance, amidst the branches of which resounded voices similar to a wordy conference or a quarrel. In Desert and Wilderness So the wordy war went on between his good sense and his yearning heart, banishing every dear, cherished memory and postponing sleep till the wee morning hours. The Boy from Hollow Hut A Story of the Kentucky Mountains Though he was wordy, he was certainly enthusiastic; his wife, on the other hand, appeared to be chiefly interested in the question of cost. The Benefactress The echoes of that wordy warfare have even now hardly died away. The Winning of Popular Government A Chronicle of the Union of 1841 “If Christian prayers could lift from his shaking hands the pagan doom, it would not do more to make converts here than wordy argument.” The Flute of the Gods Religious emotion has enormous motive force, but it is the easiest thing in the world for it to sizzle away in high professions and wordy prayers. The Social Principles of Jesus Hence constant excitements and wordy wars, till at last the authorities banished the already outlawed Sabbataï from Smyrna. Dreamers of the Ghetto Hargus stopped beside her, his arm crooked to bring his hand up to his belt, sawing back and forth as if in indecision between drawing his gun and waiting for the wordy preliminaries to pass. The Duke Of Chimney Butte It is a typical Grundtvigian book, wordy, ingenious, mystical, poetical and full of half digested ideas. Hymns and Hymnwriters of Denmark And Gonzalvo who listened to her defiance, fancied that the silent woman of mystery had given her chiding, and that Yahn was doing wordy battle for the new Castilian friends. The Flute of the Gods But a further wordy war was averted by the remittance man. The Twins of Suffering Creek Masterson’s wordy anger showed him that he was master of the situation, so he only smiled as he added, “advice, you know, is something everybody gives and nobody takes,” and Monroe resumed his whistle. The Bondwoman A picnic had once been held there, but the festivities had been marred by a severe thunderstorm that came just as a wordy quarrel between two drunken cowpunchers was fast nearing the gun-pulling stage. Rim o' the World Cease not to puff up with thy pride the poor twice-conquered folk, And lay upon the Latin arms the weight of wordy yoke. The Æneids of Virgil Done into English Verse The document is clear, logical, precise and not wordy: not in the style of the State Department logomachy. Diary from November 12, 1862, to October 18, 1863 Such foolish councils, with no wisdom fraught, Must end in wordy words, and come to nought; Just like St. James's, where they bluster, scold, They nothing know—yet they despise being told. The Fall of British Tyranny American Liberty Triumphant And yet, amid all such electric discharges of wordy rancour, the French nation goes on its way rejoicing, not a penny the worse, making wines, silks, and fashions, for an ungrateful world. Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland Spread out here before me, in all its wordy detail, it would seem that a long time must have elapsed while Captain Gole related his story, and my officers and myself laid our plans. The Terror from the Depths Elsa had taken no part in this wordy warfare between her mother and her future husband. A Bride of the Plains What did these wordy friends of Job know of sorrow and despair? Treasure Valley The 'Gruffian' and 'Giant Grim' was now known as the 'British Lion'; and became, says Mr. Watson, 'a terror to the shallow and wordy, and a merciless exposer of platitudes and shams.' The Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, Bart., K.C.S.I. A Judge of the High Court of Justice Consequently wordy epigrams beget a good deal of loathing, especially those that do not sufficiently balance their length with the magnitude of the idea. An Essay on True and Apparent Beauty in which from Settled Principles is Rendered the Grounds for Choosing and Rejecting Epigrams He stifled a wordy protest which rose to his lips, and lay still; and shortly afterwards he had the pleasure of seeing the undesirable strangers hump their “swags” and retrace their steps towards Timber Town. The Tale of Timber Town “Yes, yes,” returned the little man, unable to reply to his wife’s wordy reasoning. The Cabin on the Prairie Pay the toll cheerfully, youngling," cried one of the others, "and be not so wordy in the business. Robin Hood Witnesses to that wordy encounter had seen Thornton go white with a rage that was ominous and then bite off his unspoken retort and turn away. The Roof Tree A wordy war followed, lasting the best part of a half an hour. Dave Porter and the Runaways Last Days at Oak Hall I went to sleep only when the sound of the wordy warfare died away. The Trail of the Goldseekers A Record of Travel in Prose and Verse "That's the way you perform actions!" he said; seeming too profoundly struck to be at all wordy. Say and Seal, Volume I “Who am I,” said Luther, when he witnessed the patience of a great sufferer; “who am I? a wordy preacher in comparison with this great doer.” The Mind of Jesus At times she seemed to brim over with a wordy wisdom that made no sort of impression. Not Like Other Girls The opening chapter, or prologue, inflated and wordy, after the fashion of the times, was undoubtedly Rusticiano's. Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 5 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History Mrs. Caldwell forgot that Harriet was a servant, Harriet forgot herself, and the children, unaccustomed to wordy warfare, forgot their fear of their mother, and flew at each other's throats. The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius It was a wordy, disconnected, frantic letter, a drunken letter in fact. The Brothers Karamazov Cyriac of Ancona, a wordy man and much given to talk, was once deploring in our presence the fall and ruin of the Roman empire, and seemed to be vehemently grieved at it. Old New England Traits For Kearney, well aware of what he was at, to draw attention from him had got up a wordy demonstration with the dwarf—to all appearance a quarrel. The Free Lances A Romance of the Mexican Valley Also, when speaking of the flood itself, he is very wordy, saying that the waters prevailed, that they increased, that they flooded and covered the face of the earth. Commentary on Genesis, Vol. II Luther on Sin and the Flood And van Hert himself found it went well with his feelings to exchange wordy battles with Diana and keep his dreams for Meryl. The Rhodesian He not only felt pride in triumphing over the somewhat wordy lawyer Ham, but genuine satisfaction and pleasure that Fred should be cleared of all suspicion in this case. Under Fire A Tale of New England Village Life I want no wordy expressions of gratitude; you should know that by this time. Under the Ensign of the Rising Sun A Story of the Russo-Japanese War Be not unwilling in what thou doest, neither selfish nor unadvised nor obstinate; let not over-refinement deck out thy thought; be not wordy nor a busybody. Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature There can be no good conversation at table where the talk is constantly interrupted by wordy instructions to servants. Conversation What to Say and How to Say it On almost every occasion there were scenes with the manager, wordy disputes with people in the pit, and threats of personal violence to which she put an end by lowering the curtain of the box. Germinie Lacerteux "It seems to me that we need no wordy assurances from each other," said Crownwall, and he puffed a cigarette aglow. Upstarts His lie would have fared badly with Pompey Hollidew, he thought grimly; it was unconvincing, wordy; he was conscious that his assumed emotion rang thinly. Mountain Blood A Novel He does not spin out vague wordy platonic rhapsodies upon love-in-general. Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations Through them I recovered my claim without more than wordy warfare. Reminiscences of Queensland 1862-1869 This wordy recklessness continued while they turned into the Eagle building and ascended to the "office." Where the Souls of Men are Calling They are slow to believe in wordy protestations: they must have signs more tangible. Lewis and Clark Meriwether Lewis and William Clark Like the women of the southern provinces of Spain, they are remarkable for quickness and smartness of repartee, and in a wordy contest a Limeña is sure to come off triumphant. Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests The wit is often entirely superficial—a mere tricky playing with light resemblances and wordy jingles. Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations In the wordy war that followed," said Terry, "we all three went the limit in throwing things up to each other. An Anarchist Woman The “Shepherds of the Pegnitz” had tried to imitate the brilliant diction of the Italian poets; but the modern Meistersänger of the old town of Nürnberg had produced nothing but wordy jingle. Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. Essays on Literature, Biography, and Antiquities The truth of it is," said Mr. Chester, during a pause in one of these wordy tussles, "I, or that telephone, will have to go, Strangman. To Love He saw the policeman catch Crazy Jim by the arm, and a wordy war followed. The Young Oarsmen of Lakeview In her appearance on our wordy and contentious stage I see the commencement of a new era of things. Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885 It was diffuse and wordy, as most of such documents are, but the main facts were quite plain. Chinese Folk-Lore Tales All your aspersions, your wordy accusations will not shake my faith in him. The Light of Scarthey An unblushing, wordy barrister may be very full of brass and words, and yet be no better than an unseasoned porous deal-board, even though he have a seat in Parliament. The Bertrams Once or twice, to his comrades’ admiration, he engaged his persecutor in a wordy contest and badly routed him, which did not improve matters. Prescott of Saskatchewan But, just because it's so little wordy, it gets the effect of the thing—faith, sirs, it's right on to the end of it every time! The House with the Green Shutters “His Majesty made a short reply,”—which it may be was then thought such, but which now would assuredly be set down as long, wordy, and sententious. It Might Have Been The Story of the Gunpowder Plot The descriptions are admirably graphic, and they have the attraction of making their effect by a few direct strokes, without any of the wordy elaboration of our modern picturesque. Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 3 of 3) Essay 6: Harriet Martineau It is wordy, and is apt to remain in the region of 'vague generalities' just at the points where specific statements would be welcome. The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill Two villagers sat at another table in the side of the big room playing cards, with wordy arguments about their winnings and losses. The Ghost Breaker A Novel Based Upon the Play A retort rises to his opponent's lips, and a wordy war seems imminent, but the crier commands "Order in the Court," and the two antagonists glare at each other mutely, while the trial moves on. The Diamond Coterie Once we even staged a wordy quarrel over some petty thing for the benefit of our guards and others of the prisoners whom we distrusted. The Escape of a Princess Pat Being the full account of the capture and fifteen months' imprisonment of Corporal Edwards, of the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, and his final escape from Germany into Holland On several occasions whilst in harbour at Panama he had come into wordy conflict with the authorities. Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea When she got home she found her mother awake, very angry over Una’s staying out till after midnight, and very wordy about the fact that “that nice, clean young man,” Mr. J. J. The Job An American Novel The girls objected, and a regular wordy battle took place. A Dominie in Doubt Her defence, creditable as it was to a novice, seemed wordy and weak to him, a lawyer; and he was horrified at the admissions she had made. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866 "Failed! when?" exclaimed Aulus, forgetting his own situation in the excitement of the wordy contest. The Roman Traitor, Vol. 2 Through all this wordy process the two sailors stood, or lounged, or chatted quietly together. Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea The great painter was destitute of literary style; his sentences are cumbrous and confused; his pages grow wearisome by wordy repetition. Overbeck "I think," said the wordy Roman, "that no one will ever become a highly distinguished orator, unless he shall have obtained a knowledge of all great things and arts." Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843 Till at the door the bailiff rattles And rude men reave me of my chattels, I shall prolong these wordy battles, And may the just cause prove the fortunate; Phœbus defend my nib! Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, April 29, 1914 This action is taken from the Definition of the council, a rather wordy document, but ending with a passage indicating the action of the council. A Source Book for Ancient Church History Eloquence alone shall guide them—and the readiest writer or wordiest talker is perforce their professor. The Gentle Art of Making Enemies The time of the House was frittered away by empty discussions and wordy addresses upon the gaol tax, previously mentioned, which the king did not disallow as required by the mercantile community. The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1 They carry on a vast wordy traffic in "great principles;" they condescend upon nothing less than the overthrow or manufacture of "constitutions"—in talk. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843 You may not be able to confute them in debate, not having their skill in wordy warfare; but your experience, your common sense, convince you that they are wrong. The Common Sense of Socialism A Series of Letters Addressed to Jonathan Edwards, of Pittsburg The comedies are always long and wordy and generally tedious. Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals It amused outsiders to see him in wordy consultation with the head-waiter and the butler while his guest of honor vainly tried to continue some story he had begun, but his wife suffered in silence. The Tyranny of the Dark All its saints have something formal and restricted, wordy and cold, which turns me away from them. En Route |
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