Prolixity

This is a small book in which to treat of so large a subject, and to avoid prolixity I have had to generalise.

Sedulously avoid all polysyllabic profundity, pompous prolixity, psittaceous vacuity, ventriloquial verbosity, and vaniloquent vapidity.

Of Skelton's one excursion into dramatic form, Magnificence, not much need be said. [...] Its fault, a fatal one in drama, is its prolixity, but cut by at least two-thirds it might act very much better than one imagines.

Must I then for twenty-three mortal days endure the prolixity of that tedious woman?