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Words, including those of artists themselves—as prolix in their way as critics, curators, and historians—can serve vision but can also deflect from it. Barry Schwabsky, ARTnews.com, 3 Sep. 2019 In 1949, a young American artist named Ray Johnson left Black Mountain College near Asheville, N.C., moved to New York City and began to explore his prolix talents, both visual and verbal. Roberta Smith, New York Times, 30 May 2024 The album is a concise, 10-song set, a deliberate contrast to prolix streaming-era albums like the ones released lately by Taylor Swift and Beyoncé. Jon Pareles, New York Times, 17 May 2024 A certain type of actor thrives in these prolix circumstances. Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2021 His answer is this book: a laudably sincere, exasperatingly prolix and occasionally affecting rumination on the state of Egypt—its society, culture, history and politics—pegged to the maddening bureaucracy of the archive. Kapil Komireddi, WSJ, 12 Mar. 2023 Most books and essays published these days are too long: gummed up with adjectives and pointless asides, laden with prolix displays of expertise. Barton Swaim, WSJ, 19 Sep. 2022 There’s a hypnotic quality to this freewheeling central section, a sustained charge that falters in some of the more prolix passages around it. David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Sep. 2022 Ames’s ruminations on the soul are prolix, philosophical, and profoundly sad. Hermione Lee, The New York Review of Books, 22 Oct. 2020

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“Prolix.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prolix. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.

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