I've also had a couple books go overlength, but I've usually been able to work that out with the publishers. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Will your book be overlength, will it be short, and will the manuscript you assemble resemble the one you described in the proposal to the publisher? ❋ Unknown (2009)
But by now, 37 minutes overlength, with Barbara Walters chafing to get on the air, the real award for "Best Direction" should be going to the "Exit" signs. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The nail artist Jenna Hipp made amazing high-fashion overlength fake nails to give a couture look. ❋ Riku Campo (2010)
My only real complaint after a second viewing was overlength, but even that might be more a matter of my having attended a 10:15 pm showing than any actual flaws in the movie. ❋ Unknown (2009)
No, Oscar's flaws run much deeper than mere overlength. ❋ Unknown (2007)
We sneak-previewed A Tale of Two Cities, vastly overlength, before an audience of sailors and had a sensational success... ❋ Steve Hulett (2007)
Good Shepherd is a film with problems of which the unnecessary overlength is one, but it's one of a very few films I can think of where a sequel could actually be justified. ❋ Unknown (2007)
And then -- and that -- and one -- one paper was cut in two, because of its overlength. ❋ Unknown (2001)
In addition to the simple nailing, the nailing with overlong nails, as well as folding back and hammering back of the overlength is important. ❋ Harald Stelzer (1993)
Mark Twain remarked once, submitting a late and overlength essay to a magazine, that he was 'sorry he didn't have time to write less', and I certainly wonder if some of the more obscure passages would have been clearer if Darwin has not been in a hurry to publish. ❋ Unknown (2010)
That's still overlength, but not insanely so, to the degree that I can do a third pass for tightening, grabbing [bracket notes] and general fit, finish and corrosion, with an eye to trimming, and hope to hammer it below 160,000. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Character development is certainly one thing, but a lot of the film's overlength has nothing to do with developing characters -- much of it is just simply tied to scenes that go on far too long. ❋ Unknown (2009)
For this reason, the draft (and hence slightly overlength) national radio broadcast for this year focused on raising awareness of the issue of Peak Oil, and connecting the urgent national need to prepare for this epoch-changing challenge with a more current middle class preoccupation - the ongoing property crash and the Government's willingness to bail out their big bankster friends, while seeing ordinary families thrown to the financial wolves. ❋ Unknown (2009)
There is no point in dwelling on the story line, because even some of the book’s admirers have conceded its sluggishness and overlength — albeit with some humbug about how flaws make a good novel more likable, perfection being such a turnoff, etc. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Ugly — the broadcast’s stupefying overlength; Kirsten Dunst’s weird dress; Philip Seymour Hoffman’s skeevy hair. ❋ Unknown (2007)
