Sometimes editors and grammatical stylists will use "pleonasm" to describe simple wordiness. However, he criticised Carter's wordiness and her overuse of abstraction, simile, and metaphors. There is no universally accepted solution to the trade-off between inclusiveness and wordiness. Myers accuses Auster of "simply wasting our time" with his wordiness. The association of wordiness with bureaucracy has a long history. The ephors complained of his wordiness, stating that "taken" would have been sufficient.