prolix
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The world premiere, “Have We Met?!,” choreographed by Juliano Nunes, is a 33-minute, two-part, prolix affair for two featured couples.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 3, 2025
It’s hard to imagine a more committed recording; but if there are moments in the first three movements when Rott’s promise truly shines through, there’s nothing Hrusa can do for the absurdly prolix finale.
From New York Times • Oct. 27, 2022
A certain type of actor thrives in these prolix circumstances.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 12, 2021
Re-creating Odysseus’s trip from Troy to Ithaca, they touch on everything from Mick Jagger to mortality, with the witty banter of a prolix Hope and Crosby and the delicacy of a dragonfly’s wing.
From Washington Post • Dec. 7, 2020
The meeting continued for ten days, and Ulrich grows prolix in his particulars, though he is modest enough about his own exploits, pronouncing himself neither the best nor the worst of the participants.
From Studies in Medi?val Life and Literature by McLaughlin, Edward Tompkins
Vocabulary lists containing prolix
The Scarlet Letter
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