"When somebody starts on some long-winded explanation," the lawyer said, "he's usually got it figured out by the third sentence."

"Those are certainly two possibilities," I said, and hesitated, but it didn't seem like the time or the place for long-winded explanations, true or false.

My men were too well coördinated with one another to require long-winded explanations.

Another criticism that Michaels received was that he too often found himself in tediously long-winded explanations.

As it turned out, we spent an entire morning on the quiz, with most of the time devoted to my long-winded explanations of the answers.

He went into a long-winded explanation about the goddess and how she related to the gods of Taglios and its neighbors.

It was a phrase-' "I didn't ask for any long-winded explanation.

Murgut came to his aid with a long-winded explanation.

Diekereide has launched one of his long-winded and rambling explanations.

Which brings me to the point of this somewhat long-winded explanation.