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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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The evocative title is a quotation from the 13th century Persian poet Rumi.

— Julia M. Klein, Los Angeles Times, 3 Aug. 2026
Like Paul Schrader’s 1982 version of the latter, this is an upscale genre piece whose pretensions towards Art are upfront, starting with a quotation from no less than Schopenhauer.

— Dennis Harvey, Variety, 30 July 2026

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For context, Luze is a small hotel chain and restaurant group from next-door Navarre, and Luze San Sebastián is the brand's first serious move into luxury hotels.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Aug. 2026
For context, the median private SaaS company generates about $141,000 of revenue per employee, while the leading AI-native companies are running at twenty times that or more.

— Michael Wee, Forbes.com, 3 Aug. 2026

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Drawing pens for the kids, highlighters for those profound poolside page turners, and most crucial of all, a bull-clip of Cambodia's note-heavy Riel.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 July 2026
Once dominant sports hubs in specific markets, the cable networks face subscriber erosion spurred by the rise of streaming and cord cutting, as well as new viewing behaviors tied to mobile phones and short-term video clips and highlights.

— Brian Steinberg, Variety, 29 July 2026

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