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The president also joked about the contrast between his own reputation for long-windedness and Reid’s laconic style.

From Washington Post • Jan. 8, 2022

He generally resisted the epic long-windedness of nineteenth-century German prose, but here he makes an exception as he verbally acts out the condition of universal flux.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 7, 2019

Hall and Oates then took the stage for speeches so brief they seemed to be a shot at the E Street Band’s long-windedness.

From Time • Apr. 11, 2014

Will he gain the same obedient reaction during PMQs, where he has criticised many backbench MPs for the long-windedness of their inquiries?

From BBC • Jan. 26, 2011

He thus gained the force of freedom and the grace of variety, while the customary elegance and the habitual long-windedness of all Italian writers molds his sentences and makes them difficult of translation.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. VIII by Various