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The wordiness and harmonies of these songs are somewhat similar.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 5, 2023

Yet for all her dazzling wordiness, there is a sluggish midtempo feel that permeates this album’s 23-song track list.

From Washington Post • Dec. 9, 2022

Eliminating wordiness should not alter or omit information.

From Textbooks • Dec. 21, 2021

She sang a version of Sondheim’s “Another Hundred People,” with lyrics like “Another hundred syllables came out of my mouth,” mocking the composer’s wordiness.

From Slate • Sep. 19, 2016

It is natural, limpid, free from all rhetorical flourishes and wordiness, placing the right word in the right place.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 10 Prince Otto Von Bismarck, Count Helmuth Von Moltke, Ferdinand Lassalle by Francke, Kuno