Примеры long-winded

• An accurate but long-winded description would be 'stairs that are supported on only one side of the flight'.

• However, the exegesis of his position is extremely long-winded and at times loses cogency due to its length.

• But the prose is so long-winded that it is frequently almost unintelligible.

• Those not so fortunate may wish that the author had been more concise with regard to the text in order to make it somewhat less long-winded.

• The diplomats frequently resented this lack of clarity and the battles between different scientific camps and opinions and criticized the scientists as being long-winded and impracticable.

• The anonymous author indeed makes some telling hits against the explorers, mocking their tendency to describe what were everyday occurrences to the traders in a serious and long-winded style.

• During the previous years' application of this regulation, its provisions have proven to be exceptionally complicated, long-winded and unwieldy.

• They may be long-winded or short and sharp, painless or extremely painful.

• Having failed the first interview, they used the present discredited, long-winded appeal system to spend as much time as possible in the area.

• The first is that it is slightly clumsy and long-winded, but that is a matter of style rather than substance.

• That was a most long-winded intervention that was typical of a former military policeman.

• The process can seem excessively long-winded and leave the local authority and the complainant dissatisfied because nothing is really achieved.

• The impact of this long-winded resolution of 127 paragraphs, indeed, is liable to be in inverse proportion to its length.

• They are very long-winded, having to be taken down in longhand or sometimes straight on to a typewriter.

• To the long-winded, we sometimes find that the use of our hearing aids can be intimidating.