Translation for '
prolixity' from English to Russian
| NOUN | prolixity | prolixities | |
| SYNO | long-windedness | prolixity | prolixness | ... |
NOUN article.ind sg | pl
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Usage Examples English
- At its best, his work is characterised by a vivid descriptive power and rich fantasy but also suffers from monotony and prolixity.
- Holloway constructed the concept as a means to rediscover the value of Victorian writers who had been denigrated by Modernists for their prolixity and moralizing.
- It usually takes one of two forms: Overlap or prolixity.
- He was impatient of prolixity, cant, and the conventional standards of news importance.
- Of the 91st book Barthold Georg Niebuhr says "repetitions are here so frequent in the small compass of four pages and the prolixity so great, that we should hardly believe it to belong to Livy...."
- Hitherto, the fables had been pithily told, but La Fontaine's leisurely and circumstantial narration over the length of 32 lines went on to infect those who followed him in other languages with similar prolixity.
- In most applications, semantic compression is a lossy compression, that is, increased prolixity does not compensate for the lexical compression, and an original document cannot be reconstructed in a reverse process.
- It may be unclear which words are unnecessary, or where advice against prolixity may harm writing.
- This poetry is inspired by various historical sources and reveals the influence of Rivas and José Zorrilla, but fails in its factual narration due to prolixity and monotony, and in the fundamentals of the characters.
- I have made it accessible for you and rescued it from the abyss of prolixity".
- Eckermann was a friend of grammatical historical interpretation; in exegesis his style was not free from prolixity and repetition.
- Rand scholar Mimi Reisel Gladstein later wrote that "reviewers seemed to vie with each other in a contest to devise the cleverest put-downs"; one called it "execrable claptrap", while another said it showed "remorseless hectoring and prolixity".
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