- 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...
-
develop amnesia and insanity.
While the
village comes to grip with this,
Prolix, a
conman posing as a soothsayer,
arrives during a
storm and
begins deceiving...
-
Asterix is the only
villager who does not
believe Prolix's false prophecies. In the film,
Prolix manages to
escape with
stolen gold (which he conned...
- 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"...
-
Springs (1835) (as
Peregrine Prolix) A
Pleasant Peregrination Through the
Prettiest Parts of
Pennsylvania (1836) (as
Peregrine Prolix) A
Report Made to the Board...
- "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...
- 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...
-
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...
-
livrent donc sur Azūgi que de brèves notices,
infiniment moins détaillées et
prolixes que
celles dont font l'objet, pour la même période et chez ces mêmes auteurs...
