To the long-winded, we sometimes find that the use of our hearing aids can be intimidating.
They are very long-winded, having to be taken down in longhand or sometimes straight on to a typewriter.
The impact of this long-winded resolution of 127 paragraphs, indeed, is liable to be in inverse proportion to its length.
The process can seem excessively long-winded and leave the local authority and the complainant dissatisfied because nothing is really achieved.
That was a most long-winded intervention that was typical of a former military policeman.
The first is that it is slightly clumsy and long-winded, but that is a matter of style rather than substance.
Having failed the first interview, they used the present discredited, long-winded appeal system to spend as much time as possible in the area.
They may be long-winded or short and sharp, painless or extremely painful.
