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Longueur

noun
1.
A period of dullness or boredom (especially in a work of literature or performing art).





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"Longueur" Quotes from Famous Books



... hostilites entre l'Autriche-Hongrie et la Serbie il est necessaire que l'Angleterre entreprenne d'urgence une action mediatrice et que l'action militaire de l'Autriche contre la Serbie soit immediatement suspendue. Autrement la mediation ne servira que de pretexte pour tirer en longueur la solution de la question et donnera entre temps a l'Autriche la possibilite d'ecraser completement la Serbie et d'occuper une situation ...
— Why We Are At War (2nd Edition, revised) • Members of the Oxford Faculty of Modern History
... will doubtless start up and demolish Dumarsais and his system on this weighty affair, as if he were no better than Ptolemy or Copernicus and comments of no more consequence than astronomical calculations. I am happy to say, "la longueur de la dissertation" of Mr. D. prevents Mr. G. from saying any more on the matter. A better poet than Boileau, and at least as good a scholar as Mr. de ...
— Byron's Poetical Works, Vol. 1 • Byron


Words linked to "Longueur" :   continuance, art, artistic production, duration, artistic creation, literature


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