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Antonia Posted 21 years ago
Vocabulary
What does it mean?
Hi,
I'm back at Orson Welles' text. I don't understand the beginning of the following sentence:
At length the completed production itself, which like the others ran for a fortnight, MacLiammoir pronounced ''disappointingly vague and indefinite...''
Will you please help me?
Thank you
I'm back at Orson Welles' text. I don't understand the beginning of the following sentence:
At length the completed production itself, which like the others ran for a fortnight, MacLiammoir pronounced ''disappointingly vague and indefinite...''
Will you please help me?
Thank you
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Hello Antonia If that's all there is, I think it means: "MacL. pronounced the final production 'disappointingly vague and indefinite'. " But much depends on the text that follows your three little dots!
- Hello Antonia If that's all there is, I think it means: "MacL.
- pronounced the final production 'disappointingly vague and indefinite'.
- " But much depends on the text that follows your three little dots!
- MrP
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Hello Antonia
If that's all there is, I think it means:
"MacL. pronounced the final production 'disappointingly vague and indefinite'. It ran for a fortnight, like the others."
But much depends on the text that follows your three little dots!
MrP
If that's all there is, I think it means:
"MacL. pronounced the final production 'disappointingly vague and indefinite'. It ran for a fortnight, like the others."
But much depends on the text that follows your three little dots!
MrP
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Dear MrPedantic,
Thank you for your post.
Here's the context: Young Orson is staging one play while MacLiammoir and Hilton are staging the other two at the Todd's Summer Festival. MacLiammoir and Hilton hate him because they have to function as his equals, ie all three of them are directors. The two actors/directors are famous in the theatre world whereas Orson is only nineteen
Thank you for your post.
Here's the context: Young Orson is staging one play while MacLiammoir and Hilton are staging the other two at the Todd's Summer Festival. MacLiammoir and Hilton hate him because they have to function as his equals, ie all three of them are directors. The two actors/directors are famous in the theatre world whereas Orson is only nineteen
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Don't know which English dictionary you have to help you with... But mine says :
at length
1 in full.
2 at last.
3 monotonously and tediously o went on at length about the golf.
Hope this helps.
at length
1 in full.
2 at last.
3 monotonously and tediously o went on at length about the golf.
Hope this helps.
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Thanks Waiti,
I guess it simply means at last, but, who knows... I guess it's not 1) or 3)
I guess it simply means at last, but, who knows... I guess it's not 1) or 3)
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Hello Antonia
Yes, I think it is as I said in my previous post.
'At length' seems to be a slightly mannered way of saying 'eventually'.
MrP
Yes, I think it is as I said in my previous post.
'At length' seems to be a slightly mannered way of saying 'eventually'.
MrP
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