"Road Movies" is also a masterpiece of concision, which is more than one could say for Penderecki's 1999 Violin Sonata. From Wordnik.com. [SFGate: Top News Stories] Reference
Noam Chomsky summed up the difference better than anyone with his withering commentary on "concision" on television. From Wordnik.com. [Barry Eisler: Fictional Politics] Reference
There, on the other hand, is what Marlowe's style could not do; the phrase has a concision which is almost classical, certainly Dantesque. From Wordnik.com. [Notes on the Blank Verse of Christopher Marlowe] Reference
Obama needs to study Churchill's gifts of concision. From Wordnik.com. [Barbara Leaming: Churchill's Lesson for Obama] Reference
And we're also there to help concision, same in Togo. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 14, 2005] Reference
And if he can get a little more concision -- and who knows. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 26, 2007] Reference
Nor do I twitter – see above for problems with concision. From Wordnik.com. [The Blog Improvement Project « Tales from the Reading Room] Reference
His surgical approach to satire valued incision by concision. From Wordnik.com. [IN MEMORIAM: RIP Paul Conrad, Pulitzer-winning giant of political cartooning] Reference
JF: Short fiction requires efficiency, brevity and concision. From Wordnik.com. [Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » INTERVIEW: Jim Fusilli & the Audible/ITW Project] Reference
But to concision: I will sketch out the basis for my thesis. From Wordnik.com. [Are the Fangs Real? Vampires as Racial Metaphor in the Anita Blake and Twilight Novels] Reference
It prides itself on producing reports with concision and speed. From Wordnik.com. [Heritage Foundation: Enemy of Health Care Reform] Reference
Beware of dogs: beware of evil workers: beware of the concision. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 57: Philippians The Challoner Revision] Reference
Only Lord Denning wrote with the skeletal concision of Paul Auster. From Wordnik.com. [‘Deconstructing’ Paul Auster] Reference
¶ Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the concision. From Wordnik.com. [Philippian 3.] Reference
The best blog posts, after all, can be profound in their concision. From Wordnik.com. [From Blog to Book « Tales from the Reading Room] Reference
Some of Don's reflections in a darkened mirror have a Zen concision. From Wordnik.com. [Don Draper, Delphic Oracle: James Wolcott] Reference
My “wit” and “concision” may just be concealing my ignorance!. From Wordnik.com. [Theories and other junk « We Don't Count Your Own Visits To Your Blog] Reference
I could have saved myself a few words if I had your gift for concision. From Wordnik.com. [The Expectations Game] Reference
Real-time blogging is fun, too, although does nothing for my concision. From Wordnik.com. [Real-Time Book Blogging! « Tales from the Reading Room] Reference
With characteristic concision and wit, he commented on the pyramids themselves. From Wordnik.com. [Napoleon's Eye] Reference
For all its concision, it's an ingenious accomplishment, a masterpiece of poetry. From Wordnik.com. [The Poet's Alchemy] Reference
As you that follow this blog or podcast know, concision of expression is not my strong suit. From Wordnik.com. [No Title] Reference
Python is really remarkable in its concision, the availability of libraries, the modularity. From Wordnik.com. [Skills as Network Goods] Reference
It is worth quoting this passage in full, for Straw puts the matter with admirable concision. From Wordnik.com. [The Memo, the Press, and the War: An Exchange] Reference
The characteristics of the whole are naïveté and simplicity, clearness and a singular concision. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
WOODRUFF: Compression and concision are indeed on parade in "The Report," Kane's just-published novel. From Wordnik.com. [Two First Novels, 10 Years In The Making] Reference
I think McElwee's forecasts are little masterpieces of concision and wry wit and complicity with the viewer. From Wordnik.com. [Chilly outlook forecast for the BBC's weathermen] Reference
However difficult Strabo might have been, the marching orders he prepared were a small masterpiece of concision. From Wordnik.com. [Advance and Retreat]
This article nails its subject with concision & accuracy. by Richard Mynick on Friday, Jan 9, 2009 at 6: 37: 59 PM. From Wordnik.com. [The Difficulty of Being an Informed American] Reference
But to concision: I will sketch out the basis for my thesis, which thesis is this: Vampires are prejudiced against. From Wordnik.com. [I Am Legend]
The narration was not immune to the infamous "Timestyle," with its concision, snappy vocabulary and inverted syntax. From Wordnik.com. [MoMA Marches to the Beat of History] Reference
As bizarre tourism slogans go, few achieve the precise balance of concision and confusion of "Malaysia, Truly Asia.". From Wordnik.com. [Coming of Age in Malaysia] Reference
"I kill people, dear," she says with exquisite concision, then adds a fleeting smile and a barely perceptible shrug. From Wordnik.com. ['Red' Alert: Old Stars Fire Up Thriller] Reference
A master of concision and suggestion, the author says volumes about characters and situations by what she does not say. From Wordnik.com. [Alentejo Blue by Monica Ali: Book summary] Reference
Sean scooped her up and kissed her into a concision of joy and laughter, swinging her while he did it, laughing himself. From Wordnik.com. [The Sound of Thunder]
This 735-page book, which covers the period from the Stamp Act crisis to the ratification of the Constitution, is a feat of concision. From Wordnik.com. [Clothes-Minded] Reference
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