| The respondent's cross-examinations of the applicant's witnesses were somewhat prolix. |
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| She never particularly cared for them, finding the first too rigid and artificial, the second too prolix and maudlin. |
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| Yet although the writer pokes fun, he teases the verbally prolix, emotionally costive Huxley as much as he does the earnest Wilberforce. |
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| In any ease, my colleagues writing in the same field, whether terse or prolix, are incredibly difficult. |
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| While JB's letter was heated and bare-knuckled, it landed many accurate punches, while your prolix retort was sadly disappointing. |
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| On the contrary, the raw and prolix language of his novels is unabashedly unpoetic and polemical. |
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| Burns was an accomplished practitioner of quadruple-speak, the prolix art of sounding profound and saying nothing at great length. |
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| Through a botched reform and a lot of prolix laws, Labour has managed to rescue it. |
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| As French is more prolix than English, Twitter's limit of 140 characters per tweet creates an extra squeeze. |
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| Fans were bowled over by the band's high-voltage effect, though some critics found Coltrane too prolix. |
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| So prolix was Keynes, for example, that he is thought to have said everything at least once. This will no longer do. |
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| First, a prolix use of law can only diminish liberty and the integrity of the subject, and this in itself may be considered pernicious or evil. |
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| On a third of songs, Joanna Newsom forsakes harp for piano, on which she shows to be just as prolix. |
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| The difference between the heavy prolix of the text of Kuffner and the magnificent eloquence of the Beethovenian music is considerable. |
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| In sharp contrast to the autobiography, it tends to be prolix and muddled with excessive detail, and it often reads like a jumbled mix of fantastic stories. |
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| In the end, prolix though he may be, he convinces you that he is indeed one of the greatest living explorers of the inner self, and of the destinies that fiction offers. |
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| They take the form more of an unbelievably prolix official diary. |
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| A punctilious listing of every detail produces prose that is prolix. |
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| The new work is far more prolix, diffuse, and ultimately self-indulgent. |
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| Or perhaps poetic justice demands that the life of an unstoppably prolix author be parceled out in multiple, overlapping volumes. |
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| While much about that prolix and sloppily drafted document is unclear it would certainly constitute a further step towards the creation of a European federation. |
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| Doubtlessly, your Brussels correspondent would have then caricatured it as repetitive and prolix. |
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| As a politician he would deliver prolix speeches without notes or hesitation. |
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| Wordplay Bradlee could be prolix or pithy, as suited his ends. |
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| And I advised the underhaired Tony Kornheiser that as the real star of Monday Night, he had to impose his prolix potency on his partners. |
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| This concise report but prolix shows that travel is not always a sinecure. |
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| The finale seems both prolix and teeming, of rhythmic freedom, illustrating the imaginative world of the Hanseatic youth of the composer of Ein deutsches Requiem. |
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| The numerous water sources are the reason of the prolix vegetation. |
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| He reduced the chaos of Smith to some order, and his style is sufficiently classical, but not the less prolix and papaverous on that account. |
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