Meaning of longueur | Babel Free

Definitions

A lengthy passage in a dramatic or literary work, especially a dull or tedious one; a period of boredom.

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“Most of the reasons given for its disappearance make⟳ sense⟳: people are happier, busier; the work⟳ done by the anti-Freudian skeptics has finally taken hold⟳ of the popular imagination, so that people have⟳ no time for analytic longueurs and no patience with its mystifications.”

“He cultivated the aura, if not quite of the Anti-Christ, at least of an Anti-Sun King, discountenancing his uncle and shocking the dévots by preferring the intimacy and informality of a clique of drinking companions to the formal longueurs of the courtly round […].”

“[T]he reader can’t help⟳ feeling that a few judicious nips and tucks might have⟳ dispersed the longueurs that waft around the third quarter of the book.”

“Claire Fontaine (who are actually a duo) have⟳ queered the phrase, lending its pungency and ambiguity to a biennale that I wish⟳ were nearly so succinct. There are longueurs. There are detours and incomprehensible delays.”

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