prolixity

Thus blogging rewards prolixity as well as prolificacy, long posts as well as frequent ones.

As Chief Justice John Marshall said in 1819, the nature of a constitution was that it was designed for the ages and therefore could not “partake of the prolixity of a legal code.”

But there are moments — a lunge toward a smarmy rival, aborted at the last second; Jamie’s nervous prolixity in a flashback to his first meeting with Amandine — when he gets to practice his alchemy, transmuting convulsive nervousness or rage into crystalline comedy.

In a sober speech lasting less than ten minutes, remarkably short for a leader given to prolixity in his first term, Mr. Macron seemed determined to project a new humility and a break from a sometimes abrasive style.

Julian Hawthorne’s childhood tendency toward prolixity persisted into his adulthood.