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Some critics feel that Ishiguro's prose is circumlocutious and hard to read.
The Evanescence of a Life Remembered: Ishiguro's Stories
There remains, however, an unresolved aspect surrounding all references to the origin of this damage, which is palpable given the circumlocutious lengths to which she goes in order to evade stating precisely what actually occurred.
"Un uso non raro": rape, rhetoric and silence in sibilla aleramo's Una donna
What Brown most importantly recognized, albeit in a somewhat circumlocutious way, was that in cycads, conifers and Gnetales, among extant seed plants, the ovules receive pollen directly, whereas in flowering plants the ovule, being enclosed within a carpel, cannot receive pollen, that being the function of the stigma.
Rescuing Robert Brown--the origins of angio-ovuly in seed cones of conifers
In addition to the main protagonists, interwoven into the plot are a number of other interesting and amusing characters including Stuart's dad; a circumlocutious crossword compiler.
Evans, Lissa: Big Change for Stuart
With its circumlocutious sentences, frequent qualifying
Why Giorgio Bassani matters: the elegiac imagined world of Bassani and the Jews of Ferrara

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