- that also
refer to the use of
excessive words.
Prolixity comes from
Latin prolixus, "extended".
Prolixity can also be used to
refer to the
length of a monologue...
- The Bluebook: A
Uniform System of
Citation (commonly
known as the Blue Book or
Harvard Citator) is a
style guide that
prescribes the most
widely used legal...
- that it was "written out of hate" and
showed "remorseless
hectoring and
prolixity".
Whittaker Chambers wrote what was
later called the novel's most "notorious"...
- the new form. Yet
their conciseness represents a
great advance on the
prolixity and
uncouthness of much
earlier poetry.
Wyatt was also
responsible for...
- "excessive psychologising" and too-detailed naturalism. His
style was
deemed "
prolix,
repetitious and
lacking in polish, balance,
restraint and good taste"....
- his
diocesan bishops, and his abbots, and his earls;' and
though I may be
prolix and tedious, 'What, or how much, each man had, who was an
occupier of land...
-
Springs (1835) (as
Peregrine Prolix) A
Pleasant Peregrination Through the
Prettiest Parts of
Pennsylvania (1836) (as
Peregrine Prolix) A
Report Made to the Board...
-
events with all the cir****stantiality of an eyewitness, and with all the
prolixity of one who is
determined to
leave nothing untold,
however trifling it...
-
classical form but
differ from it to the
extent that ... they were
considered prolix and
slackly constructed by some critics.
Certainly the
invention in them...
-
Education of
Henry Adams, Mein
Kampf was "vapid, vain, rhetorical, diffuse,
prolix." However, he
added that "it is a
powerful and
moving book, the product...
