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  • Long-winded sermons are punctuated by piercing screams from designated mourners scattered throughout the church.

    The House at Sugar Beach Helene Cooper 2009

  • Long-winded descriptive passages, like the opening set at an expensive restaurant in an unnamed city, dampen the tension in a novel alleging dark doings at the heart of the Vatican.

    The Holy Bullet -- Luis Miguel Rocha (trans. Robin McAllister) Bill Crider 2009

  • Long-winded descriptive passages, like the opening set at an expensive restaurant in an unnamed city, dampen the tension in a novel alleging dark doings at the heart of the Vatican.

    Archive 2009-09-13 Bill Crider 2009

  • Long-winded but that nugget there suggests that there is really no telling how Obama would have voted had he been a US Senator at the time of that vote.

    White House Attacks Hillary Campaign 2009

  • Long-winded sermons are punctuated by piercing screams from designated mourners scattered throughout the church.

    The House at Sugar Beach Helene Cooper 2009

  • Long-winded sermons are punctuated by piercing screams from designated mourners scattered throughout the church.

    The House at Sugar Beach Helene Cooper 2009

  • Long-winded sermons are punctuated by piercing screams from designated mourners scattered throughout the church.

    The House at Sugar Beach Helene Cooper 2009

  • Long-winded and repetitive, her replies werepeppered with questionable grammatical moments highlighted by "the family checkbook is being decimated" and "oversight has been lack" (my next t-shirt).

    Palin in Hannity Interview: "Oversight Has Been Lack" 2008

  • Long-winded unnecessarily, I fear but isn't this a fair explanation of why it is "...to him who has"?

    On who(m)ever DC 2008

  • Long-winded Ted Hughes answers his questions in full pages.

    Their Way With Words 2008

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