elongate

Reviewer David Kipen celebrated Wallace’s “stupendously high-toned vocabulary and gleeful low-comedy diction, coupled with a sense of syntax so elongated that he can seem to go for days without surfacing.”

Near-sightedness, formally known as myopia, occurs when the eye elongates, causing light to focus in front of the retina instead of directly on it, producing blurry vision.

The exquisite chamber-soul arrangement thrums inexorably yet with zero hurry; the vocal precisely elongates each phrase just a tick or two beyond where you expect.

For now, the baseball world can only wait and wonder, hoping the Dodgers’ disproportionate spending won’t contribute to another elongated work stoppage.

But on Saturday, in Ohtani’s first bullpen session of camp, the Dodgers were reminded of just how easy the two-way star can make even an elongated recovery process feel.