The problem of long-windedness is not restricted to the City Council.
(The publicity optimistically refers to the new style as "novelistic"; but there is no novel here, only patches of long-windedness).
Dreams from My Father is Obama's first attempt at a serious sustained narrative and it has many of the flaws one would expect from an emerging author, including some awkward transitions and, as he himself has admitted, a bit of long-windedness.
While Shakespeare's Polonius might be the patron-saint of the pompous, if you want more art and less matter in your speech, learn from the masters of long-windedness, who actually manage to pull off extreme verbosity.
But Mr. Castleman emphasized the absence of long-term studies on kava.
In the absence of long-term thinking, all streams will eventually turn into marketing-infested flows.
Some compelling points he made — that the case against Mallayev started with the cell-phone records and not with the fingerprints, for example — sank into the morass of his long-windedness.
For someone who is prone to long-windedness, talk with her ahead of time or during a break, and ask that she keep her comments to a minimum to allow others to be heard.
He dismissed expert testimony from both sides, chided lawyers for long-windedness and inserted himself into the questioning of witnesses.
And while Mr. Obama was occasionally exasperated by Mr. Biden's tendency for long-windedness, his associates said he believed the attributes of his new partner far outweighed any drawbacks.
'THE COAST OF UTOPIA, PART I — VOYAGE' In this ravishing production from Lincoln Center, the director Jack O'Brien found a gale-force theatricality in what might have registered merely as long-windedness.
