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using or containing too many words; tediously lengthy

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prolixity
prolix



As a body of work, hers feels accidental, prolix, and messy: not the work of a concrete block, but of a woman.

—p.160 Simone (135) by Joanna Biggs
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The deadlocked prolixity of Rousseau's text is also a lesson

—p.36 Jacques Derrida: language against itself (18) by Christopher Norris
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9 years ago


Please observe how chatty the Bible is, how prolix the Pentateuch is, in describing the outcome of Genesis—and how laconic in giving the recipe for it!

—p.5 Introduction (1) by Stanisław Lem
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2 years, 10 months ago


the careful prolixity of autodidacts

—p.116 April: The Prodigal (107) by China Miéville
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9 years ago


Husserl is prolix, prolific, and infamously difficult to read

on Edmund Husserl, whose works Kurt Godel spent much time studying

—p.55 Metaphysics in the Royal Society 1715-2010 (38) by Neal Stephenson
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9 years, 3 months ago

Sonora Review DFW Tribute
by multiple authors

Sonora Review DFW Tribute
by multiple authors

Sonora Review DFW Tribute
by multiple authors


Wallace's later, more prolix argument about pop culture's successful co-opting of postmodern self-reflexivity and irony

—p.31 Heading Westward (28) by Marshall Boswell
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