Sentence examples for of verbosity from inspiring English sources

No pyrotechnics, no flights of verbosity, but a singular story about the way people love each other.

In spite of Schama's maddening fits of verbosity, he can zoom in on a masterpiece – in fact, almost any of those many masterpieces – with an extraordinary acuity.

He wished to strip his own use of language of inessentials, ridding it of all traces of verbosity, embellishment, and sentimentality.

While waiting it often allows its characters to shiver and tremble unaccountably in summer weather and succumbs to the occasional fit of verbosity.

He quarrels with Laertes beside Ophelia's grave in a display of verbosity that exceeds the modesty of nature in much the same way as does that of Laertes.

In this debate, making up for his boss's Spockiness was critically important, so Biden overcompensated with a volcano of verbosity and gesticulating.

Stanley Lombardo produced one of the most accessible modern translations of the "Iliad" in 1997, one that cut away a lot of the verbosity of more florid writers, like Richmond Lattimore, who can take two or three lines to explain the proper nuances of the Greek.

Jesse Norman, who runs the Culture Committee with a tenth of the jovial verbosity of Boris Johnson and none of the charm, set the tone from the start, engaging his face into deep-thought mode before beginning a full two hour session of advanced eyebrow yoga, holding his forehead in impossibly contorted positions for agonisingly long periods.

Lincoln's prose and speeches, however, were eloquent, pithy, powerful, and free of the verbosity so common in communication of his day.

'He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument,' was one line in Love's Labours Lost, and sub-editors could surely have some fun playing with the title, if only anyone who ever read papers ever got anything, or had read anything.

The series has consisted of a great opening scene followed by 10 episodes of flailing verbosity anchored to nothing but Sorkin's love of words.