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When it was Cato's time to speak during the debate, he began one of his characteristically long-winded speeches. Caesar, who needed to pass the bill before his co-consul, Marcus Calpurnius Bibulus, took possession of the fasces at the end of the month, immediately recognized Cato's intent and ordered the lictors to jail him for the rest of the ...
While literal and long-winded word content is often the most identifiable feature of stilted speech, such speech often displays irregular prosody, especially in resonance. [8] Often, the loudness, pitch, rate, and nasality of pedantic speech vary from normal speech, resulting in the perception of pedantic or stilted speaking.
In its original sense, a shaggy-dog story or yarn is an extremely long-winded anecdote characterized by extensive narration of typically irrelevant incidents and terminated by an anticlimax. In other words, it is a long story that is intended to be amusing and that has an intentionally silly or meaningless ending. [1]
After several long-winded monologues about the paradoxes and inconsistencies of organized religion, the villainous scholar Mr. Reed seemingly resurrects a captive woman, rattling visiting Mormon ...
Ōta is known for his strained, long-winded speeches, though it is perhaps his profound and sometimes dangerous comments that make him a staple of modern Japanese entertainment, and reflect his rather remarkable personality.
Image credits: jeanneeebeanneee #15. When I was in high school, this guy a year before me had a fearsome reputation. At house parties, people would fear him just by name alone.
A person with circumstantiality has slowed thinking and invariably talks at length about irrelevant and trivial details (i.e., circumstances). Eliciting information from such a person can be difficult since circumstantiality makes it hard for the individual to stay on topic. In most instances however, the relevant details are eventually achieved.
Oliver Leach, who owns Oliver's Coffee Shop and Wine Bar, and is also the mayor of Haselmere, told BBC Radio Surrey: "The last few years, due to the cost of living post-pandemic, have been tough.