Long-winded

You're wasting your time with all this needless repetition, so spare us the long-winded explanation.

I had to listen to another one of his long-winded stories.

Save your long-winded explanations for someone else.

The old professor's lectures are long-winded and ponderous.

The film was long-winded, in his opinion.

The journalists often produce long-winded pieces that take too long to get to the point.

Spare us your long-winded explanations.

The man tells a long-winded story.

He launched into a long-winded discussion of the relative merits of asphalt and concrete.

But which analysis is the right one? Well, as in any serious field of research, the consequences of making different assumptions about a particular phenomenon are often so complex and far-reaching that the full implications of the decision to adopt one analysis rather than another are not always immediately apparent. Thatʼs a rather long-winded way of saying that itʼs not always obvious what the right answer is!