- that also
refer to the use of
excessive words.
Prolixity comes from
Latin prolixus, "extended".
Prolixity can also be used to
refer to the
length of a monologue...
-
develop amnesia and insanity.
While the
village comes to grip with this,
Prolix, a
conman posing as a soothsayer,
arrives during a
storm and
begins deceiving...
-
originally serialized in
Pilote issues 652-673 in 1972. In this story,
Prolix the
soothsayer claims that the
village of the
Gauls will
become polluted...
-
Asterix is the only
villager who does not
believe Prolix's false prophecies. In the film,
Prolix manages to
escape with
stolen gold (which he conned...
- The Bluebook: A
Uniform System of
Citation is a
style guide that
prescribes the most
widely used
legal citation system in the
United States. It is taught...
- that it was "written out of hate" and
showed "remorseless
hectoring and
prolixity".
Whittaker Chambers wrote what was
later called the novel's most "notorious"...
-
theoretical linguistics. It
usually takes one of two forms:
Overlap or
prolixity. Overlap: One word's
semantic component is
subsumed by the other: "Receive...
- applications,
semantic compression is a
lossy compression.
Increased prolixity does not
compensate for the
lexical compression and an
original do****ent...
- with them some of its
torrent of words, the film
feels claustrophobic,
prolix and
airless to the
point of
stupefaction ... Yet,
whatever the film's overall...
- "excessive psychologising" and too-detailed naturalism. His
style was
deemed "
prolix,
repetitious and
lacking in polish, balance,
restraint and good taste"....
