NOUN
- a period of dullness or boredom (especially in a work of literature or performing art)
How To Use longueur In A Sentence
- The long longueur of winter lasts a little longer. Iced in.
- Stillborn epigrams, mechanistic wordplay, and numbing longueurs feel like hapless actors' improvisations.
- So good is it, that the longueurs of sitting through the first play evaporate within the first minute of sitting through the second, and you can't get better than that.
- Despite the occasional longueurs, this is an impressive first novel.
- Longueurs and sameyness occasionally threaten and there's some barely adequate ensemble dancing. Times, Sunday Times
- Since then, the work has been performed in Chicago, where the composer made a few nips and tucks that were supposed to solve problems of pacing and the occasional longueur.
- Its war scenes aside, A Very Long Engagement has only the longueurs of Audrey Tautou in the part of Mathilde.
- It has its longueurs and at times is longsome enough; but it is interesting as a comparison between the chivalry of Al – Islam and European knight-errantry. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
- None of the symphonic music of Rimsky-Korsakov, Rachmaninov, Delius, Richard Strauss or Skryabin is without longueurs.
- The word "travel," after all, comes from the Old French travaillier - to labor, or suffer - and drivers were happy to trade the longueurs of the road for something fast, safe and predictable. NYT > Home Page
