Most of them turn out to be long-winded hagiographies or self-absorbed and pedagogic narratives.
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Because it is public, it is likely to be nasty, brutish and tiresomely long-winded.
This has been a long-winded and complicated process - it started as long ago as 1997.
The answer you'll hear, as long-winded as it may be, will likely touch on Pebble.
Even in animals as short-lived as mice, she points out, studying ageing is a long-winded process.
After my long-winded tirade here, I would just like to know how many other people encountered the same problem?
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Show producer Rich Miller says unlike his counterpart at the 79th Annual Academy Awards, he's not concerned about long-winded winners.
Whereas the botnet Cutwail uses long-winded, spoof alerts explaining problems with your computer, aimed at tricking users to open an infected attachment.
So, it's not all about PS3, I guess is my long-winded answer.
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After a long-winded series of opening remarks by House Oversight and Government Committee Chairman Henry Waxman, the two star witnesses went to work.
They are standardizing basic procedures to help reduce errors and condensing long-winded practice guidelines that harried doctors don't read into simple checklists integrated into daily work flow.
We don't have to get into a long-winded debate on whether the Internet is making us more stupid or smarter to understand the basics of brain chemistry.
Some therapists, however, grew skeptical of the long-winded Freudian methods.
The other group received the standard long-winded and hard-to-understand prospectuses.
All of which is a long-winded way of saying that UK banks should be able to meet the new capital standard without taxpayers having to inject any new money.
Holux's newest offering sports a lightweight, near-borderless design that's sure to draw a smile from aesthetics gurus, while the longevous battery life should keep even the most long-winded trekkers on track.
Mr Rifkin, by contrast, is theoretical, pretentious and long-winded.
MPs with vested interests played a long-winded stalling game.
Most neighbouring pixels are no longer neighbours in such a data stream, so comparing them is a long-winded business, since the processor has to hunt down the relevant information before it starts.
And telephoning an American company is a guarantee of an automated nightmare of options, starting with the most improbable and long-winded, and culminating in an endless wait to talk to a human being.
That meant recruiting two clever instruments with long-winded names a differential scanning calorimeter, which measures the thermal properties of the mixture as it is sorted, and a nuclear-magnetic resonance spectrometer, which measures its chemical properties.
And yet, within an hour she was live on CNN explaining away the pepper-spray incident to host Don Lemon, who had to cut her off a few times because her responses were so long-winded.
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Dr Rivalan and his colleagues have shown that this long-winded process gives the market so much time to respond that bumping animals up from Appendix II to Appendix I can do more harm than good.
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Swiping from side to side lets you transition between verticals -- it becomes long-winded quickly, unfortunately -- while swiping down from the top edge gives you even more sub-sections to choose from, like photos and video.
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Since 2001 Railroad Earth has been playing bluegrass plus snatches of rock, folk, and jazz with the same open armed, occasionally long-winded approach that's helped jam bands like Phish and the String Cheese Incident earn throngs of rabid fans.
Is there a candidate in the past 30 years who hasn't had his outside airbrushed, his long-winded message sharpened, his stump speech spiced up, his policy positions honed, a bit of poetry added to his homily on Medicare reform?
All of which is a very long-winded explanation of why many - including the governor of the Bank of England - argue that the fundamental problem of the eurozone banking system is that it is seriously insolvent in parts.
Even in the best of circumstances Mr Hyde's deadline may not be realistic (will the committee have long enough between now and Christmas to accommodate 37 long-winded politicians, even if Mr Hyde sticks to his post-election musing and calls as witnesses only Mr Starr himself and an expert on testimony under oath?).
All of which is a long-winded way of explaining why the borrowing costs of the government perceived to be most financially over-stretched, Spain, have soared today to record levels - in that the dispute over whether to go for a banking union shows that the eurozone is as far as ever it was from a fundamental solution to its woes.
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