They did not purchase the product due to the prolix sales presentation. From LearnThat.org.
Editing a prolix manuscript. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Thus "the beadle whipped the beggar," in prolix language might be expressed, the beadle with a whip struck in time past the beggar. From Wordnik.com. [Note XIV] Reference
As a teacher of college English, I love the way you use the words "prolix" and "occlude". From Wordnik.com. [WalMart, SchmalMart] Reference
Pardon my incessant prolix on a Monday dear diary. From Wordnik.com. [natinski Diary Entry] Reference
Waxing prolix in Elon, the ex-President tells us why. From Wordnik.com. [Mayhill Fowler: Stump Dreams: The Clinton Family White House] Reference
Asks some booby rebuke, some prolix prattler a judgment?. From Wordnik.com. [The Poems and Fragments of Catullus] Reference
Like all Oriental story-tellers, Mami proved rather prolix. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference
Maigret had seldom been so prolix and so confused all at once. From Wordnik.com. [Maigret and the Pickpocket]
This book is prolix, boring, poorly structured and unenlightening. From Wordnik.com. [The Shame of No Shame: Fawning, Sniping in Media Land] Reference
Another prolix and ant-semitic rant, confused, rambling and illogocal. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
Here, too, lived a good old man and prolix poet, a friend of Tennyson. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873] Reference
'By the finish of my last letter to you which I trust was prolix enough. From Wordnik.com. [Charles Philip Yorke, Fourth Earl of Hardwicke, Vice-Admiral R.N. — a Memoir] Reference
I am not a prolix man; I know the value of time, and of other people's time. From Wordnik.com. [The Idler Magazine, Volume III, March 1893 An Illustrated Monthly] Reference
Sometimes it is terse, at others diffuse, sometimes concise, sometimes prolix. From Wordnik.com. [Lunheng] Reference
Not as expressed in empty words or in prolix letters, but as manifested by acts. From Wordnik.com. [The Cryptogram A Novel] Reference
"Better," she said with even more than her usual curtness, and she was never prolix. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 100, April, 1876] Reference
Although less prolix in his treatment of civil service reform, he was no less indefinite. From Wordnik.com. [A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3] Reference
The work is tedious, prolix, affected, abounding in pedantry and in intellectual foppery. From Wordnik.com. [England under the Tudors] Reference
He was rather querulous and prolix, than piquant, and declaimed rather than said sharp things. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 561, August 11, 1832] Reference
Even the more prolix of the two, which in some respects is the fullest and most elaborate of the. From Wordnik.com. [Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature] Reference
He refrains from boring his readers with prolix gammon about his foreign and domestic relations. From Wordnik.com. [Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 01, April 2, 1870] Reference
Do you read Barbara Cartland for inspiration when you are not pushing prolix piffle on this patch?. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
Once he was prolix, stuffing big fat novels with long, trailing sequences of curious, chewy words. From Wordnik.com. [A White-Line Nightmare, After the End of the World] Reference
Should the reader deem any portions unduly prolix, he will, perhaps, kindly excuse it on this score. From Wordnik.com. [Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter] Reference
He was prolix, but, chiefly, he was undignified in appearance and manner and lacked a good delivery. From Wordnik.com. [A History of English Literature] Reference
The tale was in time learned from the prolix Kamimura Goémon, who had witnessed part at least of the scene. From Wordnik.com. [The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 1 (of 2)] Reference
We shall pursue a plan less labored and prolix than that which it seemed necessary to adopt in treating of Antigua. From Wordnik.com. [The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus] Reference
The bulk of his work consists of long moralizing poems, prosy, prolix, often trivial, and to-day largely unreadable. From Wordnik.com. [A History of English Literature] Reference
Now that I have all the chords, words, and a prolix arrangement it occurred to me it would be nice if it also had a melody. From Wordnik.com. [Key To Your Room] Reference
But at present, lest we should appear to be too prolix, we will speak of the other points which it seems desirable to insist on. From Wordnik.com. [The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4] Reference
Thus, "One must mind one's own business if one wishes to succeed" may seem prolix and awkward, nevertheless it is the proper form. From Wordnik.com. [How to Speak and Write Correctly] Reference
After a prolix interchange of civility and defiance, Rama and Bali resolve to determine their respective supremacy by single combat. From Wordnik.com. [Tales from the Hindu Dramatists] Reference
I will not detain the reader with a prolix account of the classification of trees in assemblages, but simply glance at a few points. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 46, August, 1861] Reference
I speak only for the copyright salesman, and not to be too prolix, take only the copyright novel as an illustration of the day's work. From Wordnik.com. [The Building of a Book A Series of Practical Articles Written by Experts in the Various Departments of Book Making and Distributing] Reference
His prolix correspondence still exists in manuscript in the National Library of Paris, together with the replies of his royal penitent. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2)] Reference
Germany give indication of a progress in style from a more archaic and repressed, to a more developed and more prolix kind of narrative. From Wordnik.com. [Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature] Reference
She appears to acknowledge that in the hustle-bustle of our modern world, there just isn't time to devote to the prolix likes of James and Eliot. From Wordnik.com. [David Finkle: Video Books, or Vooks: Do We Need to Watch Books as Well as Read Them?] Reference
The team loyalty, the cheering crowds or the fluidly prolix Bob Costas giving everything to take home a medal in Men's Freestyle Incessant Commentary. From Wordnik.com. [Thomas Stern: A Kick in the Career: What Do You Want, a Gold Medal?] Reference
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