This latter story is told with prosaic prolixity in the final volume of Mr. Morris's 'Earthly Paradise.
Of the greater part of the writings collected under his name, on the contrary the general character is verboseness, prolixity and a great tendency to speculative opinions.
In these cases the whole plays become vivid studies in contemporary low life, largely human and interesting except for their prolixity and the coarseness which they inherited from the Mysteries and multiplied on their own account.
Perhaps her chief technical faults are tendencies to prolixityand too much expository analysis of characters and motives.
Tiraboschi contains perhaps more information; but his prolixity is very wearisome.
The object is evidently to prepare the reader for the ending by reverting to the beginning of the tale; and its prolixity has its effect as in the old Romances of Chivalry from Amadis of Ghaul to the Seven Champions of Christendom.
The digressions are abrupt and useless, leading nowhere, while sundry pages are wearisome for excess of prolixity or hardly intelligible for extreme conciseness.
Sidenote: Prolixity and Terseness] There is no principle to which we shall more continually refer than this one.
Defn: The quality or state of being prolix; great length; minute detail; as, prolixity in discourses and writings.
Diffuseness often arises from an exuberance of imagination; prolixity is generally connected with a want of it.
Not, however, because I disguise from myself how much hisprolixity dissatisfies me.
For I understand the prolixity of your discourses has furnished ground of complaint to many.
Only, the teacher has to refrain, in answering questions, from the prolixity of untimely thoroughness; what he ought to do is to sail on the waves of childish fancy.
Superfluous prolixity and clumsiness, through the ennui alone that they produce, cause failure in the easiest things.
His works are numerous, and all are marked by the same qualities of limpid facility, tending to prolixity and feebleness.
And here the part played by one man in the preparation of a new epoch for modern thought is so important that I may be allowed to introduce him with some prolixity of biographical details.
It cannot be reckoned a success; for though written with fertile fancy and a flowing vein, its prolixity is tedious.
Forget the dust of the arena--the prolixity of counsel--the involuntary fatuity of things in general.
It might be affirmed without inexactitude that the prolixity of counsel is the somnolence of the judiciary.
The rules of precedency are ascertained with the most minute accuracy by the emperors, and illustrated with equal prolixity by their learned interpreter.
But he often takes a false measure of their importance; and his superfluous prolixity is disagreeably balanced by his unseasonable brevity.
This prolixity of grace notes indulged by players upon the clavecin is rather terrifying at first, but one need not be detained by them, for they are not indispensable.
A man may become prolix from the fulness or fervency of his mind; but prolixity produced by this finical minuteness of language, ends by distressing one's nerves.
He had the copious vein of the mediaeval chroniclers and romancers, without their tiresome prolixity and with finer resources of invention.
But it required his poetic fire to be at fusing point to enable him to burst through his natural tendency to prolixity and even dulness.
The nature of the case would prescribe that every law, every speech, every song, should have its suitable proem: but such prolixity would be impolitic.
With great prolixity he stated the general case against the three men, and the particular case against Peter Blood, whose indictment was to be taken first.
