longueur
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A boring, slow part of a book, play or piece of music
- noun
- /lɒŋˈɡɜr/
- Literature
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- Such a mechanism is crucial for Gunn, because "since there is so little in the way of development or psychology, a mere two paragraphs of straight telling or everyday accounting can become a 'longueur.'
Examples
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Despite its interesting premise, the film has several longueurs that make it hard to watch.
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The space between, the longueurs.
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Related it, meaning all balls, to those eccentric longueurs for which the game is famous: when the batsmen are content merely to defend, to stun.
Fiction book (1994) -
The meeting was filled with such longueurs that many attendees struggled to stay awake.
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Critics noted that the book contained long stretches of longueurs, interrupting its otherwise engaging narrative.
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How Boring
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word longueur comes from French and means 'length', from Latin longus 'long'. So a longueur is a long part of a book, play, or piece of music that drags and feels dull, like the English word long, a 'long' stretch that loses your attention.