For a day or two following Devereau's unsatisfactory laconism nothing developed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Winner Take All] Reference

I am glad you have connected your negotiations and anecdotes; and, I hope, not with your usual laconism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman] Reference

Jake Gyllenhaal brought just the right mix of cowboy laconism, and passion, to Brokeback Mountain, a film that's on the trail toward rustling up Oscar gold.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jake Gyllenhaal Vanity Fair shoot] Reference

I have purposed to avoid all exuberant ornaments of style, all pompous parade of erudition, and contented myself with a plain diction, and a strict laconism.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Guide for the Religious Instruction of Jewish Youth] Reference

"No," answered I, imitating his laconism of speech.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness] Reference

We quickly learned that the laconism hid no new information.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Daily Star > News Feed] Reference

"Well, where have you been?" he said to her with offhand laconism.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mayor of Casterbridge] Reference

'Dinner!' replied a voice at her elbow with characteristic laconism, and.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Convert] Reference

Spartan of Tobymen, and laconism was the short soul of his professional legislation!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Paul Clifford — Complete] Reference

This laconism came from the lips of a young man who was walking along the Levee of New Orleans.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Free Lances A Romance of the Mexican Valley] Reference

'Dinner!' replied a voice at her elbow with characteristic laconism, and Freddy Tunbridge pulled out his watch.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Convert] Reference

His friend obeyed him, more alarmed by Andre's laconism than he could have been by some sudden explosion of passion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Caught in the Net] Reference

This I shall endeavour to interpret, by developing to the best of my ability the laconism of the philosophical naturalist.    From Wordnik.com.  [What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government.] Reference

The horrible proposition, more so from its very laconism, despite the auditory to whom it is addressed, does not find favourable response.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Flag of Distress A Story of the South Sea] Reference

Abbe Morellet pays many thanks for the answers to his queries, but complains of their shortness and laconism; however it is not your fault.    From Wordnik.com.  [Baron D'Holbach : a Study of Eighteenth Century Radicalism in France] Reference

The coldness is most often simply the apparent coldness of restraint; the baldness, the laconism of a spirit that abhorred loose, ungainly manners of speech.    From Wordnik.com.  [Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers] Reference

The latter read it without betraying the slightest emotion, or even surprise; then, with a laconism that was wholly Lacedæmonian, he said: "Place the light.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Companions of Jehu] Reference

As the language of the face is universal, so 'tis very comprehensive; no laconism can reach it; 'tis the short-hand of the mind, and crowds a great deal in a little room.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pearls of Thought] Reference

Their creator's remarks about them are sometimes of a marvellous subtlety, expressed in a laconism which seems to regard Marivaudage or Meredithese with an aristocratic disdain.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century] Reference

First he had not sufficient command of English to translate with the necessary laconism and assonance: secondly in his day British Philistinism was too rampant to permit a literal translation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arabian nights. English] Reference

Many of these, however, are either wholly without interest for the English reader, or express in almost untranslatable laconism what, in far more poetical shapes, Schiller has elsewhere repeated and developed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 03 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes] Reference

Knowing, however, how little laconism is prized by an East-African audience, I did not fail to follow up this answer with an Arabic speech of the dimensions of an average sermon, and then shouldering my blade left the circle abruptly.    From Wordnik.com.  [First Footsteps in East Africa] Reference

When they saw a sedate man of simple manners appear amongst them, they mistook his simplicity for haughtiness, his candor for rusticity, his laconism for stupidity, and rejected his benevolent cares, because, wishing to be useful, and not being a sycophant, he knew not how to flatter people he did not esteem.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Confessions of J J Rousseau]

Dono To give donation ­a gift Taciturnity­ world famous, and no one, iam sure, ever conceived of him as Taceo To be scilent cheerful, over friendly (or) perticularly sociable tacit­unspoken, unsaid Re Again Reticent­ who prefers to keep silent Laconia Sparta Laconiccess, laconicity, laconism Grandis Grand Grandiloquent­exaggerated.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

General Cavaignac, who, not having been elected President, had just resigned his power into the hands of the Assembly, with that tranquil laconism which befits republics, was seated in his customary place at the head of the ministerial bench, on the left of the tribune, and observed in silence, with folded arms, this installation of the new man.    From Wordnik.com.  [Napoleon the Little] Reference

303 So Grote and Curtius; al. B.C. 304 Lit. “laconism.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hellenica] Reference

They ooze of authenticity and laconism.    From Wordnik.com.  [POSTMODERN LITERATURE:] Reference

His laconism was extraordinary.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Halifax, Gentleman] Reference

Two things, laconism and interest.    From Wordnik.com.  [Article directories Celibataire Urbaine] Reference

European laconism.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference

A contrast with our European laconism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arabian nights. English] Reference

(14) Lit. "laconism.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Hellenica] Reference