Sentence examples for needlessly long from inspiring English sources

The Senate calls for a study and a needlessly long implementation process.

A second time our order was lost in the shuffle, resulting in a needlessly long wait.

The red car turned again and travelled what again seemed to me like a needlessly long distance, an intimidating distance, before pulling over at a red curb.

The Times's Sewell Chan reported recently that the Treasury Department wrote the weak Senate version of the Volcker rule, which calls for a study, then a needlessly long implementation process.

She has a father who is a clergyman and a pet bunny she has named Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. Maggie likes to chat with Oliver, the better to make this book needlessly long yet not really lively.

At first glance, the story seems to be a straight live-action update of 2011's Gnomeo & Juliet, where two young people fall in love against the wishes of their warring families; then there's a needlessly long Rocket Man medley, a ceramic frog falls over and everyone lives happily ever after.

The game's plot was widely dismissed; IGN's Harris termed it "a little on the basic side" and "borderline silly", which 1UP.com's Gifford amended to just "silly", with "needlessly-long dialogue".

But as we've seen for more than a quarter-century, shelters simply manage the problem, often ineffectively, with homeless people languishing needlessly for long periods, resulting in devastating social consequences and at great cost to the city.

Although none of the cases involved open conflicts concerning the decision, in one of the cases the parents felt that the child had been suffering needlessly during long term intensive care treatment, while the doctors in charge felt that stopping intensive care treatment might be too early, and accordingly requested a CEC discussion.

The problem with the stability pact is that it seeks to rule out fluctuations on the necessary scale, unless governments run a needlessly tight long-term fiscal position.This confronts governments with an immediate dilemma.

Stupid laws that needlessly require registration long in advance or excessive documentation when you show up to vote.