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Recent Examples of longueur
Surely Heaven will present us with a few longueurs.
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Arthur Krystal, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2025
The images in which Wenders frames Hirayama at work are elegant, but the editing of them is brisk, cutting the routine down to a handful of exemplary moments that celebrate the laborer’s attentive care while eliding its longueurs.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2024
What the play offers is a few longueurs about life and, importantly, an all-night party, rendered with blurry economy and Dionysian delight.
—Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 21 Dec. 2023
Like that Chopin ballade, a good routine has light and shade, fast sections and longueurs.
—Helen Lewis, The Atlantic, 8 Apr. 2020
This enthusiasm is a blessing for the longueurs to come, as one by one the cast spins out the inscrutable tale of the annual Jellicle Ball, when all the street cats of London convene to dance and sing.
—Daniel Drake, The New York Review of Books, 4 Jan. 2020
Sitting through the longueurs of Simon’s book shouldn’t have to be the penitential price for our enjoyment of the musical portion of the show.
—Charles McNulty, latimes.com, 23 June 2018
And even with its longueurs, the book is full of wonder.
—Sarah Lyall, New York Times, 18 Oct. 2017
Fortunately, the novel’s exciting ending helps to compensate for its longueurs.
—Sam Sacks, WSJ, 29 Sep. 2017
Arthur Krystal, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2025
The images in which Wenders frames Hirayama at work are elegant, but the editing of them is brisk, cutting the routine down to a handful of exemplary moments that celebrate the laborer’s attentive care while eliding its longueurs.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2024
What the play offers is a few longueurs about life and, importantly, an all-night party, rendered with blurry economy and Dionysian delight.
—Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 21 Dec. 2023
Like that Chopin ballade, a good routine has light and shade, fast sections and longueurs.
—Helen Lewis, The Atlantic, 8 Apr. 2020
This enthusiasm is a blessing for the longueurs to come, as one by one the cast spins out the inscrutable tale of the annual Jellicle Ball, when all the street cats of London convene to dance and sing.
—Daniel Drake, The New York Review of Books, 4 Jan. 2020
Sitting through the longueurs of Simon’s book shouldn’t have to be the penitential price for our enjoyment of the musical portion of the show.
—Charles McNulty, latimes.com, 23 June 2018
And even with its longueurs, the book is full of wonder.
—Sarah Lyall, New York Times, 18 Oct. 2017
Fortunately, the novel’s exciting ending helps to compensate for its longueurs.
—Sam Sacks, WSJ, 29 Sep. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for longueur
Noun
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Exploring the genre of inaugural addresses through quotations and objects from the past can help listeners better understand the opening speech of a new administration, the first act in a job that began with the taking of the oath.—
Claire Jerry,
The Conversation,
14 Jan. 2025
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Despite the patchwork libretto, Handel ingeniously parlayed Jennens’ quotations and paraphrases from the Old and New testaments into unexpected evocations of wonder and awe.—
Bob Blaisdell,
The Christian Science Monitor,
20 Dec. 2024
Noun
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Despite the widely differing contexts of these conflicts, belligerents in all of them have used strategic bombing for a similar purpose: to destroy morale and incapacitate an adversary’s ability to wage war.—
Raphael S. Cohen,
Foreign Affairs,
18 Feb. 2025
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This post was updated at 9:20 a.m. to add some more context to the benchmarking results.—
Ars Technica,
Ars Technica,
18 Feb. 2025
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To the surprise of everyone — including its own stars, as well as its creator, Aaron Korsh — Suits went viral that summer, first in clips on TikTok, then dominating the Netflix home screen and top 10 rankings for months.—
Alan Sepinwall,
Rolling Stone,
24 Feb. 2025
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The Richard Childress Racing veteran threatened to wreck the young driver in a radio clip that made rounds on social media.—
Shane Connuck,
Charlotte Observer,
24 Feb. 2025
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“Longueur.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/longueur. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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