"longueur" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1998 August 17, Adam Gopnik, “Man Goes To See a Doctor”, in The New Yorker",
          "text": "Most of the reasons given for its disappearance make sense: people are happier, busier; the work done by the anti-Freudian skeptics has finally taken hold of the popular imagination, so that people have no time for analytic longueurs and no patience with its mystifications.",
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          "ref": "2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 30",
          "text": "He cultivated the aura, if not quite of the Anti-Christ, at least of an Anti-Sun King, discountenancing his uncle and shocking the dévots by preferring the intimacy and informality of a clique of drinking companions to the formal longueurs of the courtly round […].",
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          "ref": "2015 October 5, Michiko Kakutani, “Review: ‘City on Fire,’ Garth Risk Hallberg’s Novel of New York in the Bad Old Days”, in New York Times",
          "text": "[T]he reader can’t help feeling that a few judicious nips and tucks might have dispersed the longueurs that waft around the third quarter of the book.",
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          "ref": "2024 April 22, Adrian Searle, “Venice Biennale 2024 review – everything everywhere all at once”, in The Guardian, →ISSN",
          "text": "Claire Fontaine (who are actually a duo) have queered the phrase, lending its pungency and ambiguity to a biennale that I wish were nearly so succinct. There are longueurs. There are detours and incomprehensible delays.",
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        "A lengthy passage in a dramatic or literary work, especially a dull or tedious one; a period of boredom."
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        "(authorship) A lengthy passage in a dramatic or literary work, especially a dull or tedious one; a period of boredom."
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          "ref": "1998 August 17, Adam Gopnik, “Man Goes To See a Doctor”, in The New Yorker",
          "text": "Most of the reasons given for its disappearance make sense: people are happier, busier; the work done by the anti-Freudian skeptics has finally taken hold of the popular imagination, so that people have no time for analytic longueurs and no patience with its mystifications.",
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          "text": "He cultivated the aura, if not quite of the Anti-Christ, at least of an Anti-Sun King, discountenancing his uncle and shocking the dévots by preferring the intimacy and informality of a clique of drinking companions to the formal longueurs of the courtly round […].",
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