overlong
Example Sentences
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Devon Teuscher’s clean, classical elegance lent the overlong work a boost of grace and energy, but the ballet, created in 1948, is hardly a good time capsule.
From New York Times
Carol Donnelly and her 10-year-old Mindy and 8-year-old Ginger live a slipping-down kind of life, especially after her husband Bob abandons the girls to their alcoholic grandmother while Carol is off on an overlong surf holiday in Hawaii.
From Los Angeles Times
“Dorothy Epps, Smith’s victim, has survivors who have already waited overlong to see justice done,” the office added.
From Seattle Times
They can seem overlong, and at times in this part of the film it feels as if Nolan is becoming too swept up in the trials that America’s most famous physicist experienced.
From New York Times
The newest of these films, “Mending the Line,” directed by Joshua Caldwell, proves a touching and admirable, if overlong look at the topic that significantly echoes last year’s superior, Oscar-nominated entry, “Causeway.”
From Los Angeles Times
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