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longueur
[ lawng-gur, long-; French lawn-驳舱谤 ]
noun
- a long and boring passage in a literary work, drama, musical composition, or the like:
The longueurs in this book make it almost unreadable.
longueur
/ 濒蓴虄伞舱谤 /
noun
- a period of boredom or dullness
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of longueur1
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of longueur1
Example Sentences
Still, despite its lapses and longueurs, 鈥淟ove鈥檚 Labor鈥檚 Lost鈥 remains in this version a fascinating and feelingful taste of Shakespeare to come.
Sometimes that doesn鈥檛 matter so much: There is a patient Bruckner Ninth that satisfies despite its longueurs with the Gothenburg Symphony, which hosted Dudamel for an apprenticeship as its principal conductor from 2007 to 2012.
And pulled it off more smoothly, without the staging longueurs occasioned by the rough text and the stop-and-go direction?
When the movie premiered at the Venice and Telluride film festivals this fall, it drew the full gamut of reactions, some of which sniped at its longueurs, its indulgences and its three-hour-plus running time.
The rhythms in 鈥淒os Estaciones鈥 are somewhat slower than those in contemporary industrial cinema, but the movie never drags, and Gonz谩lez doesn鈥檛 indulge in excessive longueurs or pointless ambiguities.
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