prolix

How To Use prolix In A Sentence

• Yet although the writer pokes fun, he teases the verbally prolix, emotionally costive Huxley as much as he does the earnest Wilberforce.
• As a teacher of college English, I love the way you use the words "prolix" and "occlude". WalMart, SchmalMart
• a prolix lecturer telling you more than you want to know
• The new work is far more prolix, diffuse, and ultimately self-indulgent.
• Then it seemed to me one entered a long patch of really bad writing [with] redundant adjectives, a kind of facetiousness, a terrible prolixity in the dialogue of such characters as the Nurse and Prunesquallor, and sentimentality too in the case of Eda [sic] and to some extent in Titus’s sister. Weird Factoid of the Day
• There is no doubt that the book is an interesting and instructive roundup of the problems that beset human societies, but it doesn't probe deeply enough, and in addition it is rather prolix.
• But only a handful of deputies, such as Sieyès and the prolix but still uninfluential Robespierre, believed that once the National Assembly had pronounced the monarch should have no veto at all.
• The sheer length of the word "multitudinous" in Shakespeare's line, "the multitudinous seas incarnadine," seems to express something of the vastness and prolixity of the seas; but would it if it were not used as an adjective describing the seas, and if it did not have just the meaning that it has? The Principles of Aesthetics
• The respondent's cross-examinations of the applicant's witnesses were somewhat prolix.
• Can you imagine if every sign accommodated this kind of prolixity? Your cooperation in reading this blog post is requested