long-winded

There was long-winded indulgence and lovely itty-bitty works, over in a flash but suggestive of a full and lovely life, like that of an insect.

But the schemes they need to access to get it can be long-winded and complicated.

I could give you a very long-winded response to that, but I think the shortest way to say is that the word "protest" is in the word "Protestant."

He then unspooled a long-winded, curlicued, two-minute response that mentioned natural resources, technology, innovation, productivity, inflation, energy, joblessness and the economy, among other things.

But it was a long-winded process requiring two doctors to sign it off and for the person to "live in their acquired gender" for at least two years.