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
-
We are apt to associate it with the prolix statements of policy makers and the aureate pomposity of evangelists.
The Syntax of Style
-
The text exhibits a remarkable prolixity, considering that it is only 284 words long.
-
Would not the prolix pages and omnifarious columns of every journal of the day interpose a direct negative?
North Carolina University Magazine, Volume 1 Number 1, February 1852
-
I shall want the rest to lengthen out the 9th for which the business with Burgundy affords not enough materials. prolixity is always bad.
Letter 249
-
It's called couple therapy," he explained helpfully, prolix with drink.
LOST CHILDREN
-
Women are peculiarly fitted to further such a combination — first, from their greater tendency to mingle affection and imagination with passion, and thus subtilize it into sentiment; and next, from that dread of what overtaxes their intellectual energies, either by difficulty, or monotony, which gives them an instinctive fondness for lightness of treatment and airiness of expression, thus making them cut short all prolixity and reject all heaviness.
The Essays of "George Eliot" Complete
-
Or, to put it as some aspiring writers might: without embroiling us in superfluous polysemousness, it must be averred that the aesthetic propensities of a vainglorious tome toward prolixity or indeed even the pseudo-pragmatic co-optation — as by droit du seigneur — of an antiquitarian lexis, whilst purportedly an amendment to the erudition of said opuscule and arguably consanguinean (metaphorically speaking) and perhaps even existentially bound up with its literary apprizal, can all too facilely directionize in the azimuth of fustian grandiloquence or unmanacle unpurposed (or even dystelelogical) consequences on a pith and/or douceur de vivre level vis-à-vis even the most pansophic reader.
Author! Author! » 2010 » August
-
But the Juillard Dictionnaire Inverse de la Langue Française lists twenty rhymes, among them bombyx, hélix, prolixe, and strix; and we may add the great name of Vercingétorix.
Rhymes with 'IX'
-
They take the form more of an unbelievably prolix official diary.
-
MY beloved daughter imposes on me a task, which however agreeable to myself, may not, perhaps be entirely so to you; as the cold inanimate prolixity of an old woman, will form a great contrast between her descriptions, and that of so sprightly and elegant a penwoman as Mrs. Butler: you must however, accept of my wish to indulge her, and gratify you; and take matter for manner.
Agnes De-Courci: a Domestic Tale
-
He was acutely aware of the problems of prolixity and worked hard to prune his original drafts, but his interest in minute analysis led inevitably to an expansive style.
-
For these sceptics, the voluminous literature on the subject amounts to nothing more than a prolix reply to a simple question: "What will I drink with dinner tonight?
The best wine and food matches
-
Laws came down like hail; crimes were recounted and particularized with minute prolixity; penalties were absurdly exorbitant; and if that were not enough, capable of augmentation in almost every case, at the will of the legislator himself and of a hundred executives; the forms of procedure studied only how to liberate the judge from every impediment in the way of passing a sentence of condemnation; the sketches we have given of the proclamations against the bravoes are a feeble but true index of this.
Chapter I
-
He is a decent, honest man, though given to prolixity; no genius, but then certainly no worse than the present incumbent.
-
Its narrative drags along and itsnarrator's language is leaden and unnecessarily prolix to theextent thatI mostly had to force myself to finish the book.
The Reading Experience
-
C鎡erum etsi ilium prolixiore responsione non dignemur: tamen propter alios, qui hodie hanc rem partim mirantur, partim haud leuiter nostr� genti obijciunt, pauca hoc loco addenda videbantur.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
-
Or, to put it as some aspiring writers might: without embroiling us in superfluous polysemousness, it must be averred that the aesthetic propensities of a vainglorious tome toward prolixity or indeed even the pseudo-pragmatic co-optation — as by droit du seigneur — of an antiquitarian lexis, whilst purportedly an amendment to the erudition of said opuscule and arguably consanguinean (metaphorically speaking) and perhaps even existentially bound up with its literary apprizal, can all too facilely directionize in the azimuth of fustian grandiloquence or unmanacle unpurposed (or even dystelelogical) consequences on a pith and/or douceur de vivre level vis-à-vis even the most pansophic reader.
Author! Author! » Blog Archive » Speaking of dialogue revision, part VI: and then there’s the fine art of doing it right, or, love, agent-style
-
In any ease, my colleagues writing in the same field, whether terse or prolix, are incredibly difficult.
-
Redundancy of subjects and prolixity of expression accompany the mammoth and tedious labours which otherwise are expounded with extraordinary effort and concentration.
-
Except in his canonicals, he does not have much of a physical presence or command a room when he enters it; and he is prolix.
-
It's called couple therapy," he explained helpfully, prolix with drink.
LOST CHILDREN
-
In the end, prolix though he may be, he convinces you that he is indeed one of the greatest living explorers of the inner self, and of the destinies that fiction offers.
-
While much about that prolix and sloppily drafted document is unclear it would certainly constitute a further step towards the creation of a European federation.
-
That may have something to do with Ms. Oates's prolixity.
Remembering the Hour of Lead
-
-- Forgive my prolixity, which is yet too brief for all I could wish to say.
The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb
-
First, he indicated, and I now readily understand why, that the case put before him appeared to be ‘unduly prolix and the documents unnecessarily voluminous’.
-
Everyone hates the prolix Gaddafi, particularly Arab despots who he routinely blasts as "old women in robes," "Zionist lackeys," and "cowards and thieves.
Eric Margolis: After Bombing Libya, What Now?
-
His argument is rather prolix - more so than my quotation shows.
-
The speeches of Oliver Cromwell have a formidable reputation for prolixity, confusion, and excessive tediousness; yet we have not, for our own part, found these volumes to be of the dry and scarce readable description which their title foreboded; and we would caution others not to be deterred by any fears of this nature from their perusal.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847
-
I fancy, though, that I have said too much about him already, and my prolixity is the more uncalled for as he is not the hero of my story.
The Jew and other stories
-
On the contrary, the raw and prolix language of his novels is unabashedly unpoetic and polemical.
-
Quanquam enim de pluribus abusibus dici poterat, tamen, ut fugeremus prolixitatem, praecipua complexi sumus, ex quibus coetera facile judicari possunt.
The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches.
-
Or, to put it as some aspiring writers might: without embroiling us in superfluous polysemousness, it must be averred that the aesthetic propensities of a vainglorious tome toward prolixity or indeed even the pseudo-pragmatic co-optation — as by droit du seigneur — of an antiquitarian lexis, whilst purportedly an amendment to the erudition of said opuscule and arguably consanguinean (metaphorically speaking) and perhaps even existentially bound up with its literary apprizal, can all too facilely directionize in the azimuth of fustian grandiloquence or unmanacle unpurposed (or even dystelelogical) consequences on a pith and/or douceur de vivre level vis-à-vis even the most pansophic reader.
Author! Author! » 2010 » August
-
Everyone hates the prolix Gadaffi, particularly Arab despots who he routinely blasts as "old women in robes," "Zionist lackeys," and "cowards and thieves.
-
A punctilious listing of every detail produces prose that is prolix.
-
They tend to be prolix and very difficult to understand.
-
The author's prolix style has done nothing to encourage sales of the book.
-
But he often takes a false measure of their importance; and his superfluous prolixity is disagreeably balanced by his unseasonable brevity.] 66 Chishull, a curious traveller, has remarked the breadth of the Danube, which he passed to the south of Bucharest near the conflux of the Argish, (p. 77.)
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
-
Burns was an accomplished practitioner of quadruple-speak, the prolix art of sounding profound and saying nothing at great length.
-
God (saith [6779] Fulgentius) is delighted in the conversion of a sinner, he sets no time; prolixitas temporis Deo non praejudicat, aut gravitas peccati, deferring of time or grievousness of sin, do not prejudicate his grace, things past and to come are all one to Him, as present: 'tis never too late to repent.
Anatomy of Melancholy
-
She never particularly cared for them, finding the first too rigid and artificial, the second too prolix and maudlin.
-
Many is the time, as the weariness of my spirit witnesseth, that I have heard Sah-luma rehearse, -- but never in all my experience of his prolix multiloquence, hath he given utterance to such a senseless jingle-jangle of verse-jargon as to-night!
Ardath
-
Many writers struggled against the era's compulsive reserve not just with racy subject matter but also with compulsive prolixity.
-
Will Self indulged in a prolix exchange on the subject of branding; Mark Dolan of Balls of Steel hosted a chat show; and comedian Adam Riches challenged the crowd to Swingball.
The art of banter: 'It's like a boxing match. It can be bruising'
-
While JB's letter was heated and bare-knuckled, it landed many accurate punches, while your prolix retort was sadly disappointing.
-
The new work is far more prolix, diffuse, and ultimately self-indulgent.
-
There was no sporting reference in that primitive debutant issue of 25 October 1961 – six corny homemade pages printed on yellow paper – but over the following half-century the magazine has significantly cast its wittily baleful eye over the prolix and self-important pomposities of modern professional sport and thank heaven for it.
Fifty years of Private Eye's eccentric eye view of sport | Frank Keating
-
Such an author will at one moment write in a dithyrambic vein, as though he were tipsy; at another, nay, on the very next page, he will be pompous, severe, profoundly learned and prolix, stumbling on in the most cumbrous way and chopping up everything very small; like the late Christian Wolf, only in a modern dress.
The Art of Literature
-
In the eighteen enormous folio volumes, which he filled with his minute and gothic characters, he gives his own version of the story of what he terms his downfall, and, having, notwithstanding his prolixity, exhausted this subject in the first five of the eighteen tomes, he proceeds to deal with so much of the history of his own day as came immediately under his notice in his Cornish retirement.
The Sea-Hawk
-
The authors make a compelling case that the billable hours it takes American lawyers to write up prolix contracts often cost Americans more in fees than it would cost to go to court to resolve an ambiguity.
-
Thus "the beadle whipped the beggar," in prolix language might be expressed, the beadle with a whip struck in time past the beggar.
Note XIV
-
editing a prolix manuscript
-
We both view computers with ambivalence (too easy to become prolix but a blessing when fixing bad paragraphs) and read too fast.
-
It has not the prolixity which is so common a fault of apocalyptic commentators.
A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I (of II)
-
In fact, the distances she needs to bridge are far greater than Orwell's – Wigan miners weren't to old Etonians as hill tribes are to metropolitan Indians – and her writing is more prolix and melodramatic.
Arundhati Roy: India's bold and brilliant daughter
-
The 'prolixity' of descriptions of experiments and the detailed, naturalistic illustrations that went into the society's publications aimed to create the impression of verisimilitude.
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
-
Cr ` ebillon is entirely out of fashion, and Marivaux a proverb: marivauder and marivaudage are established terms for being prolix and tiresome.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 3
-
With more than 50 million Larsson books sold world-wide, publishers scrambled to anoint his literary heir—preferably a political and prolix Scandinavian.
Tattooed by Politics
-
Such depth of knowledge, spread across so many words - a million so far, and we have yet even to reach his 1960 Presidential bid - would normally mean only that every triviality was written up, making for tedious prolixity.
-
The poem was reduced to twelve cantos, all its so-called prolixity was eliminated and it was revised in accordance with eighteenth century taste and made "reasonable and elegant".
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
-
On the contrary, the raw and prolix language of his novels is unabashedly unpoetic and polemical.
-
Subsequent to the allegations of research misconduct, his responses have been prolix, confusing, evasive and occasionally contradictory.
The Volokh Conspiracy » A New Book Coming Soon from Michael Bellesiles
-
A punctilious listing of every detail produces prose that is prolix.
-
In sharp contrast to the autobiography, it tends to be prolix and muddled with excessive detail, and it often reads like a jumbled mix of fantastic stories.
-
Wellford's first handbill, too prolix to be squeezed into a newspaper advertisement, appeared in 1801.
-
His prolix, impassioned essay argued that Catholicism was one of Italy's contributions to European civilization and that Italy would contribute yet more once renewed in a federation led by a liberal papacy.
