Studious in their laconicism, adroit in misanthropism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dru Blood - I believe in the inherent goodness of all beings: February 2006 Archives] Reference

To say the Commedia infinitely astonishes amounts, as far as I'm concerned, to laconicism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Enciclopedia dantesca, gen. ed. Umberto Bosco, 6 vols (Treccani, 1970-1976)] Reference

The linguistic laconicism cannot be carried any further; every trace of embellishment and jingle has been cleared away.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nobel Prize in Literature 1975 - Presentation Speech] Reference

That pleased her; the British laconicism; the sensible simplicity of the thing!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Crown of Life] Reference

"If I don't get to liking 'em, I don't care what happens to em," Bill answered with his father's own laconicism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dust] Reference

It is impossible, without their manners, to express their elegance, their superior delicacy, graceful without diffusion, and terse without laconicism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Observations and Reflections Made in the Course of a Journey through France, Italy, and Germany, Vol. I] Reference

It was written upon a palm leaf, and shall be quoted in all its strange laconicism, so different from the usual grandiloquence of the oriental style.    From Wordnik.com.  [Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part I. The Exploration of the World] Reference

A single card, upon which were pasted horizontally, vertically and obliquely a number of cut-out figures, deserved to go down in history for its laconicism.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Quest] Reference

Marius 'cold tone, that double reply of "I know it," his laconicism, which was not favorable to dialogue, stirred up some smouldering wrath in the stranger.    From Wordnik.com.  [Les Misérables] Reference

Indeed, it is a sign how little we are truly civilized, that such silence or laconicism as this, can be met constantly outside the class (invariably cunning) of peasants; indeed, among men exercising what we are pleased to call.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hortus Vitae Essays on the Gardening of Life] Reference

Marius’ cold tone, that double reply of “I know it,” his laconicism, which was not favorable to dialogue, stirred up some smouldering wrath in the stranger.    From Wordnik.com.  [Les Miserables] Reference

As when Plumly immediately follows Hyder Edward Rollins's description of Keats's friend Charles Brown with a straightfaced laconicism: "'Brown was a strange mixture of coarseness, kindliness, cold-bloodedness, and calculation.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Keats's Afterlife] Reference

"'Pray,' said Mr. Peel, again returning to the charge, though certainly feeling not a little surprised at the singular laconicism of his informant, no less than the mellifluous tones of an accent then perfectly new to him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer — Complete] Reference

"Ah!" said Aristide, with singular laconicism.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol] Reference

The similarities to Clint Eastwood's Changeling are borderline eerie, but where Eastwood treated an even more lurid tale with his usual Old Master laconicism, Bellocchio-also a septuagenarian-is full-on operatic.    From Wordnik.com.  [www.philadelphiaweekly.com Philadelphia Weekly] Reference