Longueur

Quick meaning: Longueur is a noun meaning (authorship) A lengthy passage in a dramatic or literary work, especially a dull or tedious one; a period of boredom.

Meaning

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

Example Sentences

[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.

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 […].

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.

Word Forms

• longueurs

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include longitude, bore, lengthlessness, doldrums, langour, languour.

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