How To Use Longueur In A Sentence
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The long longueur of winter lasts a little longer.
Iced in.
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Stillborn epigrams, mechanistic wordplay, and numbing longueurs feel like hapless actors' improvisations.
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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.
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Despite the occasional longueurs, this is an impressive first novel.
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Longueurs and sameyness occasionally threaten and there's some barely adequate ensemble dancing.
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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.
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Its war scenes aside, A Very Long Engagement has only the longueurs of Audrey Tautou in the part of Mathilde.
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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
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None of the symphonic music of Rimsky-Korsakov, Rachmaninov, Delius, Richard Strauss or Skryabin is without longueurs.
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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.
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Despite the occasional longueurs, this is an impressive first novel.
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The script, however, by David King, was no match for its actor, thick with longueurs and sitcom character development.
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M. de Narbonne, somewhat indigne de la mauvaise foi, and excédé des longueurs de son adversaire, was not quite so gentle with him, and I was glad to perceive that he meant to resist, in some degree at least, the exorbitant demands of his landlord.
Juniper Hall: A Rendezvous of Certain Illustrious Personages during the French Revolution, Including Alexandre D'Arblay and Fanny Burney
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None of the symphonic music of Rimsky-Korsakov, Rachmaninov, Delius, Richard Strauss or Skryabin is without longueurs.
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Une longue tirade, malheureusement pas vraiment traduisible vu l'heure et la longueur, sur la dépendance à internet, qui est à mon avis un faux problème.
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Instead, it's got four good dances, a few good laughs, and not a few longueurs.
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In the right production the longueurs don't seem to matter much - this score becomes more spellbinding each time I hear it.
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And there was not a longueur in sight.
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The present performers shape the concerto's architecture well, and what seem like longueurs elsewhere don't seem tiresome at all here.
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(for groundrope) (pour bourrelet) (pare relinga da promos) rope filin, cordage cabo runnage longueur par unit de poids longitud por unidad da peso
Chapter 5
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M. de Narbonne, somewhat indign de la mauvaise foi, and excd des longueurs de son adversaire, was not quite so gentle with him, and I was glad to perceive that he meant to resist, in some degree at least, the exorbitant demands of his landlord.
The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 3
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It's a fast-moving, hip and cynical tale with no longueurs and has a real cinematic sweep to go with its expert choreography.
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Philip Roth, in a 1973 New York Times essay on baseball, called "its longueurs and thrills, its spaciousness, its suspensefulness, its heroics, its nuances, its lingo, its 'characters,' its peculiarly hypnotic tedium.
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It's to be expected, of course, that in a film of this length and ambition there will be missteps and longueurs.
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That's how opera fans go about their business, collecting wayside works for the inevitable Wagnerian longueurs.
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Moi je mettrais une bonne note a c'te film meme s'il traine en longueur et qu'effectivement a la fin c tellement gore qu'on lache deux sec 'le scenar' pour se concentrer sur la remontée de son pitit dej '!
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Even if there are occasional longueurs, the show's visual wit and intelligence remain impressive.
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The work has its longueurs, but it is worth waiting around for this inexpressibly limpid and lovely solo.
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Martina Hingis, welcoming Sharapova's return to form after a disturbing longueur, described her this week as "a great competitor, so strong in the mind".
Reborn Maria Sharapova gunning for career grand slam at French Open
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Yet there are also many longueurs that, on a stifling night, seemed to get longueur and longueur.
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He furnishes handholds and issues both exhortations and admonitions: Readers are told, in effect, that there will be passages of extreme difficulty and complexity (and of plain longueur), but they are simultaneously assured that the effort will be rewarding and worthwhile.
Literary Companion
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Despite the occasional longueurs, this is an impressive first novel.
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Les supports doubles ont une longueur de 1080 M/M afin de dposer facilement 2 tuiles sur un seul support. 1 support double complet pour tuile recouvrement pse 4,03 kg (non emball); 1 support double complet pour tuile faitire pse 4,8 kg (non emball).
Chapter 12
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This second half suffered from longueur, and finally ended with Bach's death.
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It is certainly a film with its longueurs, and is often frustratingly opaque.
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Despite a few longueurs, this latest episode has a thousand times more energy, more fun, more visual invention, more deliciously arch comic intelligence than anything comparable in the summer movie marketplace.
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Otherwise, it's a poor piece of writing and storytelling, with many a longueur.
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Wordy, longueur-ridden and far too long for the Fringe, Tom Murphy's 1983 play is also oddly compelling.
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Scenes swiftly follow each other in the three acts which last a total of only an hour and 45 minutes, and there are no unwelcome longueurs.
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