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Too much furniture, too much room, too much emotional refinement, too many circumlocutions.† (source)circumlocutions = unnecessarily wordy (or possibly evasive or indirect) ways of saying things
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She lowered her eyes, tapping out the letter, not for a moment fazed by the stark information which she knew lay embalmed beneath Hoss's final circumlocutions: "Special Action,"† (source)
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When it came to the forms of address, he would substitute the oddest circumlocutions—that is, if he could not slur over them entirely.† (source)
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Although I do not mean to assert that it is usually the practice of renowned and learned sages, to shorten the road to any great conclusion (their course indeed being rather to lengthen the distance, by various circumlocutions and discursive staggerings, like unto those in which drunken men under the pressure of a too mighty flow of ideas, are prone to indulge); still, I do mean to say, and do say distinctly, that it is the invariable practice of many mighty philosophers, in carrying out their theories, to evince great wisdom and foresight in providing against every possible contingency which can be supposed at all likely to affect themselves.† (source)
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Once there I performed my small ritual — the circumlocution of the monument, the reading of the names.† (source)
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Circumlocution is his revolution.† (source)
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It was a throwback to that same boring circumlocution you used both on the bench and in the classroom!† (source)
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I am so deeply ashamed now to say that I was embarrassed to acknowledge it in front of the others and used circumlocutions.† (source)circumlocutions = unnecessarily wordy (or possibly evasive or indirect) ways of saying things
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He had considered coming to the same conclusion, but not before a long and diplomatic circumlocution.† (source)
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I gave up and put the matter baldly; I was much too tired for delicacy or circumlocutions.† (source)
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Will said, lowering his finger and closing his hands together, "I mean, to speak without circumlocution, Nick's in jail again.† (source)
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Just as the American rebels instinctively against such parliamentary circumlocutions as "I am not prepared to say" and "so much by way of being,"[62] just as he would fret under the forms of English journalism, with its reporting empty of drama, its third-person smothering of speeches and its complex and unintelligible jargon,[63] just so, in his daily speech and writing he chooses terseness and vividness whenever there is any choice, and seeks to make one when it doesn't exist.† (source)
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Direct, without game, not even nickel phrases of circumlocution.† (source)
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I had made use of many circumlocutions in describing to him the nature of the several crimes for which most of our crew had been forced to fly their country.† (source)
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Servants of God, and watchers of the temple, I am here to inform you, without circumlocution: The Archbishop is in England, and is close outside the city.† (source)
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She found him so perfectly indifferent, that she was almost afraid to enter into the point with him; but, however, after some other circumlocutions she told him that by a strange and unaccountable accident she came to have a particular knowledge of the late unhappy adventure he had fallen into, and that in such a manner, that there was nobody in the world but herself and him that were acquainted with it, no, not the very person that was with him.† (source)
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