Sentence examples for long-winded answer from inspiring English sources

"It's kind of a long-winded answer," he said, "but it's my passion.

"I'm asking a simple question and getting a long-winded answer," Jung said at one point, quietly.

"But this is kind of a long-winded answer and not a terribly cogent one," he acknowledged, unprompted.

When Mr Kerry gave a long-winded answer to a question about abortion, for instance, Mr Bush said he was having trouble deciphering his opponent's reply, then stated his own opposition to partial-birth abortions, briefly and clearly.

Guthrie gave a long-winded answer which had the audience convinced that Tony Jones's late-night news program had been axed – and also the weekly documentary series Foreign Correspondent.

"What are you trying to prove?" When one officer gave a long-winded answer to what happened one recent day after he spied a guerrilla, the general interrupted: "If you identify a terrorist, you have to shoot and hit.

She joked that she would have advised Mrs. Biden against giving that kind of long-winded answers.

Most expected one of his long-winded answers, but he shocked the crowd into laughter by answering: "Yes".

Mr. Kerry, who was especially prone to long-winded answers early in the campaign, was more concise and forceful.

Ms. Rice was interrupted frequently in the course of her questioning, with Democrats on the panel accusing her of unnecessarily long-winded answers to simple questions.

Often when his opponents asked hostile questions, he threw them off track by giving long-winded answers that he broke down into part 1(a) and 1(b), all part of an effort to lose his listeners.