lengthiness

Example Sentences

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The lengthiness of that process aside, there isn’t the faintest hint of legal violations — nor does the New York Post’s story suggest as much.

From Washington Post • Aug. 11, 2022

And often lengthiness can be the absolute soul of wit, as in Proust or Dickens.

From New York Times • Feb. 21, 2019

Even the lengthiness weights and certifies a story that, if told concisely, could merely seem lurid.

From Time Magazine Archive

Of his lengthiness, his discursiveness, Schubert might possibly have been cured, but not of his melancholy: it is the very essence of his music, as it was of his being.

From Old Scores and New Readings Discussions on Music & Certain Musicians by Runciman, John F.

This distinct breed of Spaniel does not follow exactly on the lines of the larger Field Spaniel, either in lengthiness, lowness, or otherwise, but is shorter in the back, and rather higher on the legs.

From Dogs and All about Them by Leighton, Robert