Wordiest

The two Terroirs (there is also one on the Lower East Side) easily qualify as the wine bar with the wordiest list (sometimes a single grape gets an entire page) and sometimes the most militant techniques. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It's not only one of the world's greatest wines, but it sports possibly the world's wordiest label. ❋ Unknown (2010)

His crowd was “the cleverest, wordiest, quickest people in London,” as his rival “Chips” Channon — the bitchy, social-climbing, and unaccountably brilliant diarist — described it, and he married no less than the reigning beauty of the age: the brightest of the bright young things, witty, intelligent Lady Diana Manners, youngest daughter of the Duke of Rutland. ❋ Unknown (2007)

She declares them to be "the wordiest and most writerly generation in a long while" and anoints their conversational tendency to quote TV shows and films an admirable form of "intertextuality." ❋ Unknown (2009)

The few occasions I organized a conference panel (meaning I had to look over and edit all of the abstracts before submitting them) I was amazed at how the most senior members of the group insisted on being latest and wordiest (and they were still revising the talk the morning of). ❋ Unknown (2006)

Wow, that has to be some of the wordiest casino spam ever. ❋ Unknown (2006)

It needs saying that The Unutterable sees Smith at his wordiest for a long time though the usual subjects are referenced - celebrities (this time Oprah, Pete Tong, Alan Brazil amongst others), drugs (in the extraordinarily powerful ‘Ketamine Sons’), politics (‘Devolute’) and, a particularly frightening subject for him, an alcohol-free police state (‘Sons of Temperance’). ❋ Unknown (2000)

The wordiest, crankiest band in the world, the Fall - Mark E. Smith and his rhythm grinders from Manchester, E.gland - are back upon us and will play the Middle E.st Downstairs April 3 with Bush Tetras, part of a brief US tour. ❋ Unknown (1998)

Southey, and of the early poems of Shelley, of Scott at his wordiest. ❋ Henry Seidel Canby (1919)

Eloquence alone shall guide them -- and the readiest writer or wordiest talker is perforce their professor. ❋ James McNeill Whistler (1868)

Those bearing Greek inscriptions were the wordiest; such as -- “I love not lest I go astray; but I observe well, and I laugh.” ❋ Unknown (1840)

Belling says it got the idea for the book after publishing research showing the British TV chef Delia Smith was the U.K.'s wordiest cookery writer, dishing out 872 words for a recipe for roast beef.

At first glance, this is Miller at his worst - overly serious, hammering the point home again and again, and aping the wordiest man in comics. ❋ David Brothers (2010)

Moby-Dick, one of the wordiest novels ever, illustrated the next year by Rockwell Kent. ❋ Sarah Boxer (2010)

In his wordiest SOTU (5,560 words) in 1983, President Reagan prefaced his foreign policy segment by saying, "let us turn briefly to the international arena" then went on to deliver about 1,200 words on the subject (21 percent), about a quarter of which dealt with the Soviet Union. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Shakespeare's cross-dressing pastoral frolic has been known to churn up some mirth on occasion, but the version of the Bard's wordiest play at the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Harvey Theater is positively dreadful. ❋ Unknown (2010)

That is the longest and wordiest "post hoc ergo propter hoc" fallacy I have ever read in my life. ❋ The Economist (2010)