Sentence examples similar to more long winded from inspiring English sources

The potential explanation or defense of the I.R.S.'s actions, however, would be more long-winded.

This final dispatch is more long-winded than usual, as though bracing for the end.

2.57pm: Flint gave a pretty straightforward answer although Hester is being much more long-winded.

In fact, it looks as if Sugar's revenge against respectability will be a more long-winded affair.

Some presidents were better at the form than others some more eloquent and commanding, some more long-winded and tedious.

The number he was referring to, which goes by the symbol alpha and the rather more long-winded name of the fine-structure constant, is magic indeed.

Any show this long risks sagging in the middle, and the breakneck momentum ebbs when Jay-Z leaves Timberlake to dwell on his more long-winded new material.

Nothing can be safer (or more long-winded, Dad pipes up. He alone of his generation has read The Bride of Lammermoor) than an opera based on one of Walter Scott's Waverley novels.

And Mr. Pearson, who has lately been revealed to be the pseudonymous author of the best-selling "The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer: My Life at Rose Red," is more long-winded than vigorous.

You've either got to unearth some new information, come up with a more long-winded way of saying something (while maintaining the writer's voice, of course), or – as an absolute last resort – use typographical cheats.

Weinberger argues that as metadata gets more long-winded and redundant, it also gets more effective.