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longueur

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Definition of longueur

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Recent Examples of longueur The images in which Wenders frames Hirayama at work are elegant, but the editing of them is brisk, cutting the routine down to a handful of exemplary moments that celebrate the laborer’s attentive care while eliding its longueurs. — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2024 What the play offers is a few longueurs about life and, importantly, an all-night party, rendered with blurry economy and Dionysian delight. — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 21 Dec. 2023 Like that Chopin ballade, a good routine has light and shade, fast sections and longueurs. — Helen Lewis, The Atlantic, 8 Apr. 2020 This enthusiasm is a blessing for the longueurs to come, as one by one the cast spins out the inscrutable tale of the annual Jellicle Ball, when all the street cats of London convene to dance and sing. — Daniel Drake, The New York Review of Books, 4 Jan. 2020 There are conspicuous longueurs and characterizations that barely reflect the complexity of an Instagram reel let alone the greatest gothic novel in English literature. — Carly Thomas, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019 Sitting through the longueurs of Simon’s book shouldn’t have to be the penitential price for our enjoyment of the musical portion of the show. — Charles McNulty, latimes.com, 23 June 2018

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Others have created a multimodal version of it using text, images, quotations, citations, audio, video, or other media to show how the idea is inherited, transformed, contested, and reimagined.

— Saurabh Anand, JSTOR Daily, 24 Sep. 2026
The chilling quotation above comes from insect enthusiast Björn Hjaltason’s discovery of a mosquito last October on a farm just north of Reykjavík.

— Mark Sappenfield, Christian Science Monitor, 14 Sep. 2026

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Kelly said she was impressed by Sand’s ability to not only answer complex policy questions off the cuff but also to explain the context of the issue for others in the audience who might not have been as familiar.

— Gabrielle M. Etzel, The Washington Examiner, 13 Oct. 2026
In a small farm context, that will be to a grouping of farmers that form a producer unit using the same practices in the same climate.

— SJ Studio, Footwear News, 13 Oct. 2026

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Instead of bringing Macdonald’s contemporaries in for original sit-downs, Apatow goes to the clips from countless podcasts and video shows in which those contemporaries reflected on and celebrated Macdonald.

— Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 16 Oct. 2026
Divine has already recovered some of the original clips that disappeared when Vine was shut down in 2017 and so far remains blissfully slop-free.

— Eliza Thompson, Time, 15 Oct. 2026

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