Sentence examples for long-winded explanations from inspiring English sources

Martin-Artajo labored nervously through long-winded explanations, with Macris occasionally turning angrily on him.

Even now, his long-winded explanations — a legacy of his 28 years in the Senate — sometimes test Mr. Obama's patience, though Mr. Kerry's aides say he has "learned to speak the president's language".

The long-winded explanations and clumsy performances are made worse by graceless effects and a last-minute 3-D conversion that wrecks whatever visual grace or beauty might have been there.

She favors expletives and long-winded explanations and at times even seems to flirt with Mr. Rajaratnam and Kieran Taylor, a former Akamai executive who prosecutors have said passed her inside information about his company.

They say he is using a "perfectly reasonable catchall phrase" that, although it may be out of place in an academic setting, is acceptable on the campaign trail, a place that "does not lend itself to long-winded explanations of what we really are facing," said Kenneth M. Pollack, research director at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution.

A lot of non-fiction work can be very repetitive and contain long-winded explanations of a simple concept.

I thought that Instagram would be a good teaser to show viewers inspiration without a long-winded explanation.

The attorney ended his memo to mayor saying, "That's a very long-winded explanation of why you can't perform a same-sex marriage, but does not address the issue of whether you should or not".

When I asked a Cuban driver with whom we were snorkelling where he had acquired a rather smart Spiderman beach towel, he gave me a long-winded explanation of the market system, which boiled down to this: "Sometimes somebody has something that I want to buy, but if I ask them where it came from they won't sell it to me".

I want to make a long and involved point about how one's own memories differ from those of one's parents, and what impact this realisation will have on my own parenting style, but in fact, it is just a long-winded explanation for the fact that I didn't notice what T was doing because I was too busy gassing.

"Don't want to give up," said Mr. Rich, in a relatively long-winded explanation, on one recent Sunday evening as he milked Blue Collar Cow, one of about 70 eccentrically named Holsteins lined up in stalls like tractor trailers parked for unloading.