A more serious problem is the diffuseness of prefix notation. From Wordnik.com. [Being Popular] Reference
It is, perhaps, his diffuseness that makes him a trifle nebulous. From Wordnik.com. [The Common Reader, Second Series] Reference
Homer, not to speak of the extreme diffuseness of some of the French. From Wordnik.com. [Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature] Reference
The diffuseness of want and need gives a peculiar twist to the hero phenomenon. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Brenner: Celebrities as Heroes] Reference
The decline of the old English poetry is shown by an increase of diffuseness and insipidity. From Wordnik.com. [Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature] Reference
It must be added that the diffuseness which characterizes her fiction, also pervades her correspondence. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Women: George Sand] Reference
But its colour and poesy do not compensate for the diffuseness of the plot and the undramatic conclusion. From Wordnik.com. [Balzac] Reference
His pictures have the charm of naturalness and a simplicity that is more effective than the most ornate diffuseness. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 3, March, 1862] Reference
JOSEPH BIDEN (D), DELAWARE: I think it's unfair to blame the president for the spread of terror and the diffuseness of it. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 22, 2004] Reference
Their immense and sandy diffuseness is like the prairie or the desert, and their incongruities are like the last deliration. From Wordnik.com. [Representative Men] Reference
It is the story of the Prince and the Lamia in the Book of Sindibad wherein it is given with Persian rhetoric and diffuseness. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
Wheels make for diffuseness, imperialisms, cosmopolitanisms. From Wordnik.com. [Here are Ladies] Reference
Cicero of gorgeousness of phraseology or diffuseness of style. From Wordnik.com. [The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: In Nine Discourses Delivered to the Catholics of Dublin] Reference
It is marked by his characteristic diffuseness, abundance, melody. From Wordnik.com. [A Biography of Edmund Spenser] Reference
The diffuseness and feeblenss of the style clearly point to a late origin. From Wordnik.com. [The Koran (Al-Qur'an)] Reference
Their diffuseness amusingly contrasts with Varro's brevity in his dedication. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius] Reference
The temptation to diffuseness and irrelevancy is as embarrassing and dangerous. From Wordnik.com. [Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography] Reference
Accordingly, the bias of the former is toward over-intensity, of the latter toward over-diffuseness. From Wordnik.com. [Among My Books First Series] Reference
Northern newspapers for the period of the Civil War is unnecessary, for their size and diffuseness are appalling. From Wordnik.com. [Historical Essays] Reference
He was in doubt whether his friend had not infected him with a 'certain epic spirit' which tended to diffuseness. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller] Reference
There is in his work a tendency towards diffuseness which goes with his talent in improvisation mentioned by Cicero. From Wordnik.com. [Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology] Reference
The form of the monodistich was in itself a safeguard against diffuseness, but not against the equal peril of inanity. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller] Reference
His passion for minute detail is only to be equalled by his diffuseness on points mainly if not altogether irrelevant. From Wordnik.com. [Among My Books Second Series] Reference
He was indulgent to the diffuseness of a suffering soul, and permitted her to pour out freely her most trivial afflictions. From Wordnik.com. [Germinie Lacerteux] Reference
Their immense and sandy diffuseness is like the prairie, or the desert, and their incongruities are like the last deliration. From Wordnik.com. [Representative Men] Reference
It need not contain all these things, because we can often do better by checking diffuseness, and by resolute self-limitation. From Wordnik.com. [Joyous Gard] Reference
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