It is true that here and there the "creamy richness" of his style becomes verbosity, and that he occasionally draws too freely on his inexhaustible store of epithets, metaphors and turns of speech; but these faults, which did not escape the censure even of friendly critics like Quintilian, are comparatively rare in the extant parts of his work.   anvd [Please select]

Perhaps the fault of this book of theory--or rather the characteristic most likely to give cause for attack--is the tendency to verbosity.   anvd [Please select]

The extracts from this author are intended to exhibit the dangers of verbosity and exaggeration.   anvd [Please select]

So far the abbot with much learning and no little verbosity casts his net.   anvd [Please select]

The Government, too, was issuing communications of vague and rhetorical verbosity.   anvd [Please select]

"Verbosity is cured (not by a small, but) by a large vocabulary."   anvd [Please select]

What others feel as the intolerable ambiguity, verbosity, and unscrupulousness of the master's way of deducing things, he will probably ascribe--since divine oracles are notoriously hard to interpret--to the 'difficulty' that habitually accompanies profundity.   anvd [Please select]

This formula includes, as you will see, an allowance for the heat of the climate, the zeal of the leader, and the verbosity of the theorists.   anvd [Please select]