Author of one of the great political comebacks (his candidacy looked dead on the eve of primary voting), he is determinedly unexciting, fond of expressing simple ideas in circumlocutory ways.
The FOMC minutes are published (with a three-week lag) and Mr Greenspan steers traders through his speeches and testimonies (though he retains a penchant for circumlocutory phrases).Nonetheless, American monetary policy strategy is less transparent and more personalised than in many other modern economies.
He expresses simple ideas in weird, circumlocutory ways, showing special fondness for multiple negatives.
However circumlocutory, it was enough for India's environment minister, Jairam Ramesh, to take umbrage.
In England, Richard Thompson wrote scathingly despairing social realist ballads, while the hugely prolific Elvis Costello, whose first album was released in 1977, brought the anger and skepticism of punk rock into his trickily rhymed circumlocutory songs that often explored situations from multiple perspectives.
That's a sentence that wouldn't get past Just Not Sorry, a new plug-in for Gmail which highlights every single apology, hesitating "maybe" or circumlocutory "actually" sent from your outbox.
He's been praised as "unfathomable at best" and "bafflingly circumlocutory at worst" by ArtFinger.
However, Stach states that such a reading is not "compelling," for though he can be reiterative and circumlocutory, he can also (and frequently does) nimbly dissociate himself from arguments he has relentlessly constructed.
Isn't it astonishing, for example, how, once elected, MPs continue the daft traditions of jeering, guffawing and addressing their colleagues by ridiculous circumlocutory terms such as "the right honourable member"?
On the one side was a quick, single-minded young woman with a passion for argument; on the other an exceedingly reserved man with a hesitant, circumlocutory manner and an aversion to direct eye contact.
You couldn't call After I'm Gone thrilling, exactly: it's too circumlocutory.
