This was a bit of a blow, given that previously I used to consider the English language an adventure playground; I was quite verbose.
The website of last weekend's V Festival, for example, known for its commercial feel and young fans, is pretty thin on the subject of recycling, though quite verbose on avoiding unprotected sex.
For instance, HYIP websites are typically quite verbose.
The young Shelley, it has to be said, is quite as verbose in praise as he is elsewhere in condemnation.
Harrison, rather less verbose, replies, "I hear you, brother".
He denounces Scudéry's works "for their lack of seriousness, for their airs, for their vague and superficial dialogues, for their fawning portraits of quite mediocre people, even on occasion very ugly people, and for their interminable and verbose effusions on love"[OC, p.445].
Arktos provides three ways to describe an ETL scenario: a graphical point-and-click front end and two declarative languages: XADL (an XML variant), which is more verbose and easy to read and SADL (an SQL-like language) which has a quite compact syntax and is, thus, easier for authoring.
The long-winded verbose speakers of the world never seem to know when to quit.
Christopher Benfey, in his Dec. 4 review of "The Death of King Arthur, Peter Ackroydd's retelling of Thomas Malory's 15th-century classic, notes that T. H. White's "ingratiatingly verbose 'Once and Future King'... was the basis for the musical 'Camelot' and eventually, in some not quite traceable trajectory, for our fantasy of life among the Kennedys".
"As you see I'm not so verbose by nature," Mr. Pitt said, bringing the topic back to the garrulous, deal-making Billy Beane and how the character was in fact quite a stretch.
Le Figaro found it "verbose and static.
