Despite the brevity of the pieces, Provenzale's music does not come across as short-winded.
If that summary suggests a sort of epic, it is a short-winded epic.
And Mr. King has gone short-winded with "Full Dark, No Stars," a set of four spooky moral tales.
But after a miserable defeat when she was 14, she declared herself "fat, short-winded and lousy," and said she wanted to quit.
"Human Chain" is far from Heaney's best book — the short and short-winded sequences rarely smolder like a peat bog afire underground.
Action, as I recall (I was seventeen when I first read the book), is outweighed by long-winded — no: short-winded — cogitation and repeated lackadays.
In one typically short-winded screed, she laments that her Teflon-coated frying pans have been declared dangerous and will have to be gotten rid of.
Although Pamuk demonstrates the patience and constructive ability of the nineteenth-century fabricators and their heirs Proust and Mann, his instinctive affinity lies with the relatively short-winded Calvino and Borges, philosophical artificers of boxes within boxes.
"I was climbing steps and getting short-winded, and I was surprised and thinking, 'Forty-two isn't too old,' " said Mr. Mullens, who has been on disability for the past 15 years.
Violeta Urmana and Plácido Domingo sang Kundry and Parsifal much as they did at the Met two years ago, Urmana with a fiercely expressive high range, including a beautifully bloodcurdling high B, and Domingo with enough charisma to cover up patches of dry, short-winded tone.
Donald Trump, the erstwhile frontrunner, turned in an uncharacteristically short-winded performance, denied ever having made a criticism of Rubio that was printed on his website and used his closing statement to brag about having held the debate to two hours instead of three.
