logorrhoea
Britishnoun
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The most generous interpretation of Arena’s logorrhoea on this subject – unlike the nativism previously espoused by players like Abby Wambach and Landon Donovan – is that he has no real problem with deploying dual nationals, but struggles to discuss their use in the context of US Soccer’s limited developmental infrastructure.
From The Guardian
Suddenly, I realized that the logorrhoea, the rhetoric, the flattery and the timid reproaches that poured forth from my wife upon exiting the doctor's office were nothing more than words intended to fill my mind – my immediate memory – to prevent me from dwelling on that strange diagnosis which had made me into a rebellious patient.
From The Guardian
He's got logorrhoea and diarrhoea.
From The Guardian
If readers think Ulysses is difficult, they will throw up their hands in horror over Work in Progress, whose entire "action" takes place in the dreaming mind of a sleeper, whose language is accurately described by one admirer as "intensive, comprehensive, reverberative infixation; the sly, meaty, oneiric logorrhoea, polymathic, polyperverse."
From Time Magazine Archive
Speaking of Joyce's language, says Ogden: "The intensive, compressive, reverberative infixation; the sly, meaty, oneiric logorrhoea, polymathic, polyperverse; even the clangorous calembour, irresponsible and irrepressible, all conjure us to penetrate the night mind of man, that kaleidoscopic recamera of an hypothecated Unconscious, jolted by some logophilous Birth-trauma into chronic serial extension."
From Time Magazine Archive
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