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I wrote that Mr. le Carré's style had become verbose and implausible by his own standard, which had been set by his early books, especially by "The Spy Who Came in From the Cold," which I called a masterpiece.

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As a poet Lowell became verbose and undisciplined – Bishop eked out her perfect poems a few at a time.

Anyone who has read many press pitches knows that they can become overly verbose, filled with unneeded backstory, explanations, and quotes.

While the traditional music press, most notably the NME, became ever more verbose and sullen and rarefied in response - this was a time when it couldn't review the new Shakin' Stevens single without mentioning Roland Barthes, Wyndham Lewis and Ingmar Bergman's Sommaren med Monika - Smash Hits truly understood what pop music was about.

Nicknamed "Save Rome", that decree had become so bogged down in a verbose and venomous parliamentary process that Matteo Renzi's new administration withdrew it and said it would find a new way of helping the Rome authorities plug an €816m hole in their budget.

+ Zola, a verbose Twitter user, Hooters waitress, and exotic dancer, has become an internet sensation for her serial story about the secret life of strippers: "this story is long but it's full of suspense".

Open, warm and endearingly verbose, Wolfe becomes a closed book at the mention of Tinder: "The lawsuit was not about money, that is not what motivates me and it is not how I find fulfilment," she says.

(Female aged 48, 8 chronic conditions) Stigma was observed in non-explicit verbal cues, such as where an initially verbose participant became defensive and refused to discuss depression, and another expressed willingness to help, but consistently avoided answering questions about depression.

These uniforms have become a rich revenue source for kiddie-clothing companies like French Toast, which has a verbose Web site dedicated to their magical properties.

Starting with 1991's "Prospero's Books" -- a fantasia on Shakespeare's "Tempest" that featured Sir John Gielgud in the title role -- Mr. Greenaway's work became increasingly dense, allusive and verbose.

Another, very different, follower of Rousseauist ideals, the verbose and prolific Nicolas-Edme Restif de la Bretonne, became the self-proclaimed chronicler and analyst of Parisian society, a representative young man of the generation that had gone from country to city in search of fresh fortune.

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