overlong
Example Sentences
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An overlong middle stretch sets up several crucial emotional complications so quietly that you might have to pinch yourself a couple times not to miss anything important.
From Los Angeles Times
The only thing “Saturday Night Live” loves more than an overlong current events cold open is running a successful joke into the ground.
From Salon
Most of this happens in just the first act—overlong at 90 minutes.
“F1: The Movie” may be a thinly veiled, overblown, overlong vanity project, but it’s designed to waterboard viewers with Pitt’s panache until they relent, hoping that we, too, become so exhausted by its end that we can’t help but give in.
From Salon
I wish the same could be said about his overlong dream-logic interludes, which tantalize as peeks into Frankie’s psyche but eventually feel like style filler.
From Los Angeles Times
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