| 单词 | longueur |
| 例句 | To keep themselves warm during the inevitable longueurs, visitors sing songs of peace and harmony in several languages. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z While Verdi is always dear to me, even in good renditions his Requiem has its longueurs. Best Classical Music of 2021 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z After the melodic and propulsive opener, Neighborhood Watch, and its elegant drum patterns, things lose focus; most of the flashes of grace overshadowed by confusing longueurs. Memory Tapes: Grace/Confusion – review 2012-12-09T00:05:50Z Worst of all, in one of those chillingly surreal moments that makes me forgive Lynch and Frost all the previous inscrutable longueurs, the camera tracks from Bill’s cell to the next. Twin Peaks recap: episodes one and two – crazy town just got much, much weirder 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z In many Twelfth Nights, the Malvolio scenes are the highlights, with the rest longueurs by comparison, but here they are just part of an intricate tapestry of human behaviour. Stephen Fry's Twelfth Night: this all-male affair is no one-man show 2012-10-01T15:13:40Z “How to eliminate the longueurs without eliminating the sense.” The Wanderer 2011-02-25T17:39:26Z “Oslo” was so splendidly produced by Lincoln Center Theater that audiences were able to cope with the longueurs that are an inescapable part of difficult peace talks. Critic's analysis: Tonys spread the love in a year of innovation and risk-taking on Broadway 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z There are some longueurs in its later galleries, replete with dozens of later abstract paintings and reliefs: so many dancing circles, so many boogieing lines. The Wandering Creativity of Sophie Taeuber-Arp 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z There’s not much of a story, which wouldn’t be bad if there was something other than blasts of music filling the longueurs. Review: ‘A Perfect Day’ About Aid Workers in the Balkans 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z Sometimes that doesn’t matter so much: There is a patient Bruckner Ninth that satisfies despite its longueurs with the Gothenburg Symphony, which hosted Dudamel for an apprenticeship as its principal conductor from 2007 to 2012. What Gustavo Dudamel’s Recordings Reveal About His Conducting 2023-05-13T04:00:00Z The novel suffers from some early longueurs of pacing, and much info-dumping, but accelerates to become a skilfully plotted and compulsively readable supernatural thriller. Science fiction roundup – reviews 2013-07-18T09:00:00Z The piece certainly had its longueurs: There were moments when I wondered how the creative team could possibly sustain the emotional intensity through some of the less-powerful musical passages. Review | Art, exposed: In Series strips away convention, and hits a nerve 2018-09-09T04:00:00Z One of them explained to me, later, at home, that he’d always enjoyed camp on its own terms, excusing its longueurs and illogic as the price, or even the source, of the entertainment. Review: In ‘Fairycakes,’ the Woods Are Campy, Dark and Daft 2021-10-24T04:00:00Z It's a mystifying film of wordless longueurs punctuated by "miracles" and violence. This week's new films 2013-01-05T00:06:04Z Still, despite its lapses and longueurs, “Love’s Labor’s Lost” remains in this version a fascinating and feelingful taste of Shakespeare to come. Review: Young Bros and Maidens Harmonize in ‘Love’s Labor’s Lost’ 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z Yet its inspirations, almost all of which are centered on Bouloukos’s performance, redeem its longueurs and virtually blast them off the screen and out of memory. “Jobe’z World,” Reviewed: A New Film Showcases a Secret Weapon of Independent Cinema, the Actor Theodore Bouloukos 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z In private and with a glass of wine in hand, we agreed without hesitation: It was a convoluted mess replete with incomprehensible longueurs. A witch hunt or a quest for justice: An insider’s perspective on disgraced academic Avital Ronell 2018-09-08T04:00:00Z Under the rotunda’s oculus, it felt like a 3-D Antonioni film: the unease, the longueurs, the serious rewards. Dance for the People (by the Pros) at the River to River Festival 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z For a book of a thousand pages, there are surprisingly no longueurs. Is This the Best One-Volume Biography of Churchill Yet Written? 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z It's why he wages his own one-man war in the cinema against boredom: you can experience many things watching his films, but you will never complain of longueurs. What Danny Boyle did next 2010-12-05T00:04:00Z It’s not exactly pleasurable — and it’s filled with disorienting longueurs — but it really sticks. ‘Kamikaze Hearts’ Review: Truth or Fiction 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z A lot of the material is thus delivered semi-impromptu, with all the stutters and longueurs that entails. Review: Michael Moore, Bragging on Broadway, in ‘The Terms of My Surrender’ 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z But Webre also used dancers to fill in the musical spaces, the orchestral interludes, transitions and more than occasional longueurs. Review | Philip Glass in a warehouse, with lots of goth kids 2017-06-18T04:00:00Z The rhythms in “Dos Estaciones” are somewhat slower than those in contemporary industrial cinema, but the movie never drags, and González doesn’t indulge in excessive longueurs or pointless ambiguities. ‘Dos Estaciones’ Review: A Tequila Factory’s Story, Sip by Sip 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z “Nobody is Ever Missing” has its longueurs, to be sure, and some of its lineaments seem a bit wobbly—I was never quite persuaded of the reality of Elyria’s New York life. A Novel of the “Post-Wounded Woman” 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z I found myself wondering how much the work’s scattered strong effects depended upon its longueurs. Dance Review: Kendra Portier and Elke Luyten at Dance New Amsterdam 2012-12-04T20:20:07Z The musical variety and style he brought to the performance, coupled with first-rate playing from Academia Montis Regalis, held longueurs to a minimum. Review: A Spotlight for an Unsung Talent 2010-08-17T15:23:00Z The movie had its longueurs, but there was a scruffy plausibility to it, and, for anyone interested in the issue of border control, a whiff of acrid political unease. Anthony Lane: “Godzilla” Review 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z Relax, you think, as Tintin and the story rush off again, as if Mr. Spielberg were afraid of losing us with European-style longueurs. | 'The Adventures of Tintin': ?The Adventures of Tintin? by Steven Spielberg - Review 2011-12-20T22:03:02Z And pulled it off more smoothly, without the staging longueurs occasioned by the rough text and the stop-and-go direction? Review: A ‘Seagull’ Airlifted to a World of Soy Milk and Prada Sneakers 2023-02-28T05:00:00Z Yes, there were weaknesses, longueurs, passages which could be tightened, snipped and slashed altogether. Bliss; BBC Prom 61: H?nsel and Gretel 2010-09-04T23:06:00Z Despite its shrewd bits, this slim book also has longueurs and repetitions, and Ballard’s prose had lost, by the end, a bit of its elastic snap. Books of The Times: J. G. Ballard’s Memoir, ‘Miracles of Life’ 2013-02-05T21:10:03Z I think of the preface that Jack Kerouac wrote to “The Americans”: a period piece, indulging Beat longueurs. The Shock of Robert Frank’s “The Americans” 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z And at Danspace Project in the East Village this weekend, on a double bill with Anna Azrieli’s “third skirt scrum,” much of the 45 minutes of “Still Left” slipped from languor into longueurs. Dance Review: Rebecca Brooks and Anna Azrieli Share a Danspace Program 2014-04-14T20:57:58Z It is not a remarkable life and Asimov is not a born storyteller so inevitably there are longueurs. How to Love Wine by Eric Asimov – review 2012-11-22T08:00:02Z The film—despite some conspicuous longueurs, slack performances, unkempt cinematography—is a passionate and relentless effort to connect the performances of music to the lives and activities with which they coincided. “Rolling Thunder Revue,” Reviewed: Martin Scorsese’s Slippery Chronicle of Bob Dylan in Concert 2019-06-14T04:00:00Z But “The Foxy Merkins” has its longueurs and deflates in a repetitive, unfunny sequence of police raids on a hotel where Margaret is practicing her trade. ‘The Foxy Merkins,’ a Satirical Buddy Comedy 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z The longueurs didn’t disappear, but there was joy even in being bored. Best Classical Music of 2021 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z Certainly “Mason & Dixon” could have used some judicious editing; as it stands, its enormous bulk and intermittent longueurs will prove daunting to many readers. 38 Years on Books: The Essential Michiko Kakutani Reader 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z And yet, without these longueurs, there would be a reduction in fidelity to the original. Whatever Happened to Isabel Archer? ‘Mrs. Osmond’ Picks Up Where Henry James Left Off 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z The play has the occasional longueur, and it helps if you realise that Ui's key lieutenants are precise replicas of Goering, Goebbels and Röhm. The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui – review 2012-07-12T11:13:26Z Not that the evening was free from glitches, slumps, and longueurs. The Surreal Achievements of the 2016 Oscars 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z Her voice moves easily from girlish and sugary to soulful, but it's wasted on some of the more mawkish longueurs such as 21 or Insecure. Delilah: From the Roots Up – review 2012-07-28T23:05:41Z And no longueur or flubbed cue breaks the spell of her compassionate, witty production. ‘Into the Woods’ Review: Some Enchanted Evening 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z And even with its longueurs, the book is full of wonder. With ‘La Belle Sauvage,’ Philip Pullman Begins a New Trilogy 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z First presented as part of the celebration of the marriage of the Dauphin of France in 1747, it suffers from the longueurs and occasional stasis of occasional music written for occasions long forgotten. Opera Lafayette celebrates 20th anniversary, and Rameau And the more longueurs Banville provides in order to reinforce the Jamesian mood and manner, the more tedious the novel becomes. Whatever Happened to Isabel Archer? ‘Mrs. Osmond’ Picks Up Where Henry James Left Off 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z This should not be seen as languor, or dismissed as longueur. Mud – review 2013-05-11T23:07:24Z Possibly, but then its famous longueurs are integral to its excruciating charm. Mike Leigh on his first film, Bleak Moments 2013-01-01T17:00:01Z Which is not to say the whole scene is without absurdity or even longueurs; but images from it stay powerfully with you. Critic?s Notebook: Bolshoi Sends Alexei Ratmansky?s ?Corsaire? Into Cinemas 2012-03-12T22:19:26Z Mr. Serra plunges us into the earthy sensualism and longueurs of Casanova’s daily life. ‘Story of My Death,’ a Tale of Casanova and Dracula 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z And be warned: There are longueurs, especially in the seemingly interminable, two-hour first act. | 'The Threepenny Opera': ?Threepenny Opera? With Berliner Ensemble at BAM - Review 2011-10-05T16:50:18Z Still, the longueurs are worth it, forcing the audience into a useful position of slight non-fluency. Review: Learning ‘English,’ When Your Accent Is a ‘War Crime’ 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z Bye-bye woozy-bluesy alto wallowing around in her own longueur; hello to a stepped-up pace in a brighter room and a crisper attitude. Cassandra Wilson's 'Another Country' refreshingly upbeat 2012-06-25T19:23:04Z But, although there may be occasional longueurs, Leigh gets there in the end by offering a devastating portrait of the solitude that haunts many of the inhabitants of a teeming city like London. Ecstasy - review 2011-03-16T00:17:46Z What makes “The True” worth its longueurs is the chance to see Ms. Falco bite into the unfairness of all that, but also the excitement. Review: In ‘The True,’ Edie Falco Stars as the Soul of an Old Machine 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z I was unfamiliar with Moran’s work, but his cogent, dramatic voice was a welcome balance to the static longueurs of Glass. Exploring the silliest and darkest sides of marriage at Wolf Trap Opera 2017-08-13T04:00:00Z Despite the longueurs, it was worth the wait. Shuggie Otis – review 2012-11-21T14:04:27Z “Behind the Candelabra” is studded with comic moments that can help pull you past the longueurs. Television Review: ‘Behind the Candelabra,’ Starring Michael Douglas, on HBO 2013-05-24T21:15:57Z Whatever the longueurs of the evening, it was good to see the Met engage Rattle, who is chief conductor and artistic director of the Berlin Philharmonic. Simon Rattle leads 'Pelleas' in Met debut 2010-12-18T18:31:05Z In the second half, Ms. Connolly brought sincerity and purity of tone to British songs: Britten’s “Charm of Lullabies,” whose occasional longueurs she overcame with variety, and two of Herbert Howells’s gently old-fashioned airs. Music Review: A Mezzo Keeps It Simple, and Makes It Profound 2011-04-15T21:19:40Z Whatever the longueurs – and on a first night lasting nearly six hours there were a few – you have to praise the enterprise, the risk, the grandeur and the star quality of the cast. Les Troyens; Le nozze di Figaro; Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra/Dudamel – review 2012-06-30T23:07:11Z These pyrotechnics are not enough to distract from the show's longueurs, those moments when Coldplay try to rock. Coldplay – review 2012-06-03T17:00:01Z But Ms. Mirescu’s method is chaotic, and her show full of longueurs. 2010-01-09T03:25:00Z The recitatives that had been thought to be the opera’s longueurs here were shown to be, in fact, as subtly inflected as Gregorian chant. 'Young Caesar' finally conquers: Troubled 1971 opera is reborn at Disney Hall 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z If the times really were a-changing, would we go on loving “Downton” as we do, through all its longueurs and contrivances and disquisitions on pig stewardship? 'Downton Abbey' Recap: Do We Really Want Anything to Change? 2015-01-04T05:00:00Z A show with enough on its mind, with a minimum of muddles and longueurs, doesn’t require bombarding with extraneous sensory excitement. On Broadway Stages, the Beautiful Rooms Are Empty 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z Staged now, as then, by Thea Sharrock, it seems underrehearsed, with so many longueurs and peculiar music cues that I found myself writing several times in my notes: “Inherit the What?” Review: Kevin Spacey as Clarence Darrow, Stadium Size 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z But such are the longueurs of this would-be slam-bang blockbuster directed by Robert Schwentke, that it sure does inspire woolgathering. ‘Snake Eyes’ Review: The Journey to the ‘G.I. Joe’ World 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z When the movie premiered at the Venice and Telluride film festivals this fall, it drew the full gamut of reactions, some of which sniped at its longueurs, its indulgences and its three-hour-plus running time. A critic takes a second look at Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s ‘Bardo’ — and is thankful he did 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z Embroidering the illusion for the television audience, meanwhile, were applause machines, much like those at fan-free televised football in this pandemic longueur. Daniil Medvedev wins ATP Finals title after comeback floors Dominic Thiem 2020-11-22T05:00:00Z Edited by Bill Ross IV, the film moves with the longueurs of spending way too long in one place. Endless drinks and flowing feelings in genre-bending documentary 'Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets' 2020-07-11T04:00:00Z Ruscha does not propose an ironic twist, much less the longueurs of a lesson in semiotics. Perspective | Is that all there is? 2020-06-10T04:00:00Z One of few champions for the dystopian epic was the Guardian, which argued that it contains enough “thrilling set-pieces, blood spattering the camera lens, to compensate for the ponderous longueur in between.” All the lukewarm Apple TV+ reviews, from 'Morning Show' to 'Dickinson' 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z Here too, Wheeler is comfortable rambling a bit, delivering longueurs on earrings, toilet seats, the Trinity test again, how we define healing and how often it's in the eye of the beholder. Joshua Wheeler aims to put overlooked southern New Mexico on the map in 'Acid West' 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z Pauses and longueurs can be effective, particularly in a setting where a measure of tedium comes with the wide-open terrain, but the deliberation of the pacing is not warranted by the film’s thin, circuitous story. 'The Bad Batch' reveals a muddled but visually striking desert dystopia 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z The patchy plotting and narrative longueurs will almost certainly test your patience over the better part of three hours, and they’re meant to. Andrea Arnold's 'American Honey' is an indelible epic of the open road 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z Anchored by two winning lead performances, “The BFG” ultimately overcomes its longueur, if only by a hair of the title character’s chinny-chin-chin. Spielberg adapts Roald Dahl’s ‘The BFG’ with uneven, but finally winning, results 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z "Being a comedy sketch stretched out to feature length, "An Act of God" inevitably has its longueurs," said the Hollywood Reporter. Actor Jim Parsons takes on heavenly role in 'An Act of God' 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z Adams’ style is a romantic minimalism that builds and swells in glorious profusion and while the opera has its longueurs, at its best the music is powerful and appealing. 'Death of Klinghoffer': Private Grief Turned Into Public Entertainment 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z He shrugged off the Perry ghost by winning the US Open, ending that awful longueur that stretched back 76 years. Andy Murray left drained but should have enough in tank to win final 2013-01-25T22:01:01Z In economic terms, the country is in stasis, which is what some biologists call the boring longueurs between evolutionary leaps. Bagehot: The stuck society 2012-12-06T16:03:43Z Given the fitful inspirations and frustrating longueurs of this middling Middle Earth fable, one wishes that Tolkien had written a darker companion volume called The Gollum. The Hobbit: A Lot of Trudging 2012-12-05T14:35:00Z In Jonathan Miller’s minimalist modern-dress staging, it adds up to an evening of longueurs, punctuated by sizzling flashes of baritonal joy. Greedy Matron Frolics, Cavalier Swaggers, Mozart: London Stage 2012-02-03T01:36:08Z He captured what Philip Roth, in a 1973 New York Times essay on baseball, called “its longueurs and thrills, its spaciousness, its suspensefulness, its heroics, its nuances, its lingo, its ‘characters,’ its peculiarly hypnotic tedium.” Essay: Essay - A Veteran Baseball Novel Comes Off the Bench - By Matt Weiland 2011-08-26T22:51:34Z Those 30 years pass in only 90 minutes at the Penguin, but not without some longueurs. | Westchester: What He Did (or Not) on His Australian Vacation 2011-08-20T00:29:54Z Many fine passages have been esteemed longueurs, and have been omitted altogether, and entire chapters have been sacrificed to the exigencies of taste or of space. Critical Studies 2011-07-21T02:00:20.463Z It also has by far the most longueurs. 2011 Pulitzer winners in journalism and arts 2011-04-18T19:53:00Z Even more surprising was that the script, a ramshackle thing of improvs, longueurs and excesses, got an Oscar nomination too. Dennis Hopper Dead at 74: The Easy Rider's Gone 2010-05-29T19:05:00Z Of course, it isn’t that, it’s full of longueurs, and is not quite “redd up,” as we say in Scotland, not quite articulated; but there are splendid things in it. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 23 (of 25) September 5: L. B.—The siege of Charleston tire en longueur; it has cost thousand of lives and millions upon millions, and will still cost more. Diary from November 12, 1862, to October 18, 1863 The same fault of longueurs makes itself felt in Tolla: and indeed the author seems to have been conscious of it, and confesses it in an apologetic Preface to the editions after the first. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century And in Comus there is none of the stiffness, none of the longueurs, none of the almost ludicrous want of humour, which mar the larger poem. A History of Elizabethan Literature Extravagant as are the situations in La Nuit et le Moment, the other best thing, they are, but for the longueurs already censured, singularly verisimilar on their own postulates. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 Mr. Clarence's humour, on the other hand, was not so well served; and there were frequent longueurs during the episodes in which the Dowager Lady Wynmarten figured. Punch, or the London Charivari, May 13, 1914 She adored her husband, as did everyone who knew him: but life at Shaftesbury Court had its longueurs even in the hunting season. Brother Copas His longueurs are exasperating and sometimes nearly maddening, though perhaps many readers would save themselves by simply discontinuing perusal. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century Even Balzac makes an apology for his longueurs, and tries to set to work in greater earnest. Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) The opera is planned on a huge scale, and in such works longueurs are apt to occur. Richard Wagner Composer of Operas At the risk of longueurs—and other things—let me take an illustration from scenes I know. The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 The longueurs and the fiddle-faddle, the shameless and fulsome preface-advertisements and the rest lay open enough to censure. The English Novel But it has a fairly well-knit plot, some attempt at character, sufficient change of incident and scene, and hardly any longueurs. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century This year Jock had drawn out a time-table to ensure that the day held no longueurs. Penny Plain In the Lohengrin days his method still requires these longueurs, these dry patches: later his mastery over his material enabled him to deal his theatrical and his musical stroke at the same time. Richard Wagner Composer of Operas Happily the resemblance extends only to the rondeurs, and not to the occasional longueurs, of his predecessor. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, March 12, 1919 I am happy to say, "la longueur de la dissertation" of Mr. D. prevents Mr. G. from saying any more on the matter. Byron's Poetical Works, Volume 1 As to what you say of Byron's volume, no doubt there are longueurs, but really not many. A Publisher and His Friends Memoir and Correspondence of John Murray; with an Account of the Origin and Progress of the House, 1768-1843 It proceeded with the delays and longueurs that are inseparable from the sluggish majesty of the law. The Historical Nights' Entertainment First Series In the Ring and Parsifal—as in Lohengrin and Tannhäuser—there are longueurs; in Tristan there are none: not a bar can be cut; there is not a bar that does not hold us. Richard Wagner Composer of Operas The Hymn to St. Teresa has the brevities which this poet—reproached with his longueurs— masters so well. Flower of the Mind We must, of course, acknowledge that as it is there are longueurs, intrusion of Saint Simonian jargon, passages of galimatias, and of preaching. The Country Doctor Throughout the deliberations of the masters the music remains at a high level: there are no longueurs; dry recitative and barren attempts to treat prose poetically alike are absent. Richard Wagner Composer of Operas |
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