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- noun Plural form of
longueur .
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Examples
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I know that what our neighbours call _ "longueurs," _
The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 6 George Gordon Byron Byron 1806
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Regrettably, "Wendigo" ultimately suffers for its focus on style as its characters and narrative prove too thin to prevent the story flagging a bit in the middle but longueurs aside, this is still an impressive piece of writing.
REVIEW: The Best Horror Of The Year, Volume 2 edited by Ellen Datlow 2010
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But, although there may be occasional longueurs, Leigh gets there in the end by offering a devastating portrait of the solitude that haunts many of the inhabitants of a teeming city like London.
Ecstasy - review 2011
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Mm – muskySkirting boards stifle yawns as K Winslet does INT: OPPRESSION in beige worstedFamily sitcom fashions funeral wreath from raised eyebrows & desiccated nun gags; signs card: "RIP LOLZ"More string-backed longueurs & self-propelled denim from Mary, Mungo & MidgeYe serpents, ye generation a' vipers – hoo can yerz escape the damnation a' Hell, man?
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The quintet certainly has its longueurs, but after the Milhaud it sounded profound.
Music review: The Quatuor Debussy with Katherine Chi at Library of Congress 2011
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The Royal Opera's music director, Antonio Pappano, achieved the near miracle of showing that this work has no longueurs – only badly paced performances.
Review: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg at Royal Opera House 2012
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Yet if you can soldier through the prose and some rather tremendous longueurs, you'll find genuine wisdom and emotional depth in "1Q84."
Rebel Ascendant Sam Sacks 2011
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That said, and despite some longueurs, Melancholia leaves one ecstatic.
Erica Abeel: Apocalypse: If Not Now, Maybe Next Week? Erica Abeel 2011
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Lacking internal musical thrust or logic, the symphony was riddled with longueurs, especially in the slower sections.
Music review: Adams's 'Doctor Atomic' by BSO at Strathmore Post 2010
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I tried to apply the discipline of my short story writing (no longueurs, no self-indulgent riffs or pointless dialogue) to the novel, so that it would be dense, but not too long, full of characters but not baggy.
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"Moving swiftly and purposefully, her story has no longueurs whatsoever, nor even a single lurching transition; it represents a triumph of artful selection and synthesis."
- The New York Times Book Review, "Love's Pestilence: Victims of Byron and Shelley litter their emotional wake." By Ben Downing, July 11, 2010.
July 11, 2010