Christopher (Jeff Perry), the prolix patriarch, is a disheveled poltergeist of fulmination and cogitation.

NEWYORKER: Minority Reports

Here the author's habit of minute observation, elsewhere so often prolix, imparts tension and pathos.

ECONOMIST: Exiles from history

Doubtlessly, your Brussels correspondent would have then caricatured it as repetitive and prolix.

ECONOMIST: Letters

In keeping with the anti-elitism of his boss, Rupert Murdoch, Thomson has always been publicly dismissive of the Pulitzers and other journalism awards, saying they reward exactly the kind of prolix, self-important writing readers can do without.

FORBES: WSJ Editor Preempts Pulitzers: We Aready Won 'the Greatest Prize'