Sentence examples for wordy from inspiring English sources

On the surface it looked fine – bright, colourful, not too wordy, maybe even a bit Where's Wallyish – but then I started to read it, and the blood immediately froze in my veins.

But for a five-piece unit they make a decent fist of giving Fred Macpherson's wordy navel-gazing ("My self-esteem is at an all-time low") an impressively oomphy backdrop.

"How wordy you are … use few words … few, few but significant," Giuseppe Verdi wrote to his librettist Francesco Maria Piave.

Some believe this may be a defining moment for Spain.More wordy than radical, the charter talks of Catalonia as a nation and defines a series of matters to be dealt with bilaterally with the Spanish state.

Discerning critics have, for a generation now, used the National Theatre's failure to perform Schiller's work as a stick with which to beat successive directors, who, in turn, have shrugged off these attacks with the retort that there is no audience for wordy, Germanic pieces.

Out have gone the wordy pontifications; in has come a middle-class tax cut (sound familiar?), some direct attacks on Mr Dean, and a more aspirational air.

So why was he singled out?The wordy document drafted by the self-proclaimed (and apparently revived) Red Brigades, which signs off under their precursors' original full name (Red Brigades for the Construction of the Fighting Communist Party), singled him out because he was a notably moderate negotiator with the trade unions and a man of the centre-left who sought to soften the edges of class war.

The G8 group of rich countries published a wordy declaration in May, but has done little since.For years governments and companies have talked about "track-and-trace" systems to identify and authenticate medicines.

Its leader, Raschid Ghannouchi, recently told Salafist leaders in private that Tunisia's Islamic character could best be ensured by empowering righteous Muslims through elections and government appointments.As a result, Tunisia's draft constitution says nothing about sharia or blasphemy, and relegates questions of religious values to a wordy preamble.

The revised Maastricht treaty will include a wordy employment chapter for this purpose.It will be harder to cope with Mr Jospin's insistence on no new austerity measures, especially if the French budget deficit begins to rise.

One virtue of superhero films, from this point of view, is that they are not overly reliant on wordy scripts.See the print-edition article here.