Sentence examples for for verbosity from inspiring English sources

His reputation for verbosity was Washington legend.

He hardly has a reputation for verbosity.

As novelists age, their novels often contract, revealing a distillation of form and technique — or, perhaps, a crotchety intolerance for verbosity.

The 35-year-old right wing has long been known not only for his deadly release and pinpoint accuracy on the ice, but also for his penchant for verbosity most of the time off it.

Lawyers are in the persuasion business, yet their penchant for verbosity and hyper-technical jargon undermines their ability to communicate effectively.

Ironically Lord Kinnock himself had a reputation for verbosity, but it's not clear whether this is connected to the determination of officials to write succinct briefing papers for him.

See Macro Debugger: Inspecting Macro Expansion for details. an integer level specification, with 0 for no logging and bigger ones for additional verbosity.

COBOL has been criticized throughout its life for its verbosity, design process and poor support for structured programming, which resulted in monolithic and incomprehensible programs.

Fortunately, I didn't love him for his verbosity.

He said there was no need for "showy verbosity on paper, petty washing of dirty linen, time-serving and utilitarianism".

A more sympathetic commentator might point to lifestyles that no longer have time for the verbosity of Trollope or the opacity of Joyce.