longwindedness

I hate: them slurping coffee; shouting around the office rather than walking five paces to talk to someone; talking shop in the pub; sniffing rather than blowing their nose; longwindedness at meetings; undertaking bothersome work rather than asking if it is necessary; … I could go on all night!

Why Japanese can’t get promotion 2010

Maybe my longwindedness obscured this point, but I DO want the Democrats to do absolutely everything they can to win next month.

Midterm Roundup 2009

This has given me a chance to reminisce, so please pardon my longwindedness.

calling in favours 2007

Before the debate, Clinton's aides had worried about his longwindedness and his raspy voice.

FACE TO FACE TO FACE 2008

I have tried to avoid longwindedness—even in the somewhat speculative vein which characterizes this chapter.

Managing with Dual Strategies Derek F. Abell 1993

Is he not called Loxias, [597] because he prefers ambiguity to longwindedness?

Plutarch's Morals 46-120? Plutarch

Parliament, gave _De Vere_ a success with the world at large, which its length and longwindedness might have marred.

International Weekly Miscellany of Literature, Art, and Science — Volume 1, No. 4, July 22, 1850 Various

Speech grew slowly; and mankind, now a speaking animal, had centuries -- nay, epochs -- in which to become habituated to the longwindedness that Job accepted as a matter of course in Eliphaz,

The Perfect Gentleman Ralph Bergengren 1909

King and Garde-des-Sceaux (there is no Necker visible) make known, not without longwindedness, the determinations of the royal breast.

The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838

If it shows later, I apologize now for its longwindedness, though I have a feeling it won't show.....and I have no idea why it hasn't yet.

Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2010