Or rather to boil down my scrabbly notes to that length.

Socspeak and economese are familiar forms of jargon-laden language being used to convey almost nothing verbosely.

So far Mr. Martindale's journey had been without a hitch

[…] the whole troop of marsh-birds rose again, darkening heaven, with a simultaneous whirr; and long after that death yell was still ringing in my brain, silence had re-established its empire, and only the rustle of the redescending birds and the boom of the distant surges disturbed the languor of the afternoon.