Your descriptions are beautiful, so is your conciseness. From Wordnik.com. [Simplicity for Writers of All Types] Reference
He spoke with great fluency and with astonishing conciseness. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1] Reference
How does the use of adverbs contribute to the conciseness of language?. From Wordnik.com. [English Grammar in Familiar Lectures] Reference
The style of Tacitus is, perhaps, noted principally for its conciseness. From Wordnik.com. [The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus] Reference
I am sorry that you found such a conciseness in the strains of my first letter. From Wordnik.com. [Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters A Family Record] Reference
The most striking features of the work are its comprehensiveness and conciseness. From Wordnik.com. [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference
Strive for brevity, conciseness and clearness; wage war on all attempts at fine writing. From Wordnik.com. [Newspaper Reporting and Correspondence A Manual for Reporters, Correspondents, and Students of Newspaper Writing] Reference
"He was, and is, a hypocrite!" interrupts Miss Maliphant, with truly beautiful conciseness. From Wordnik.com. [April's Lady A Novel] Reference
I do think that Obama needs to practice conciseness in order to increase his effectiveness. From Wordnik.com. [A Tale Of Two Headlines] Reference
That is, strive for conciseness and cut out details that do not properly belong in the lead. From Wordnik.com. [Newspaper Reporting and Correspondence A Manual for Reporters, Correspondents, and Students of Newspaper Writing] Reference
As in the conciseness of this statement at the J.P. Morgan conference: "I like movies," he said. From Wordnik.com. [Gerald Levin Grabs the Moment] Reference
The form is characterized by an extreme conciseness and brevity and an absolutely impersonal tone. From Wordnik.com. [Newspaper Reporting and Correspondence A Manual for Reporters, Correspondents, and Students of Newspaper Writing] Reference
For diction, fine style, conciseness and logical conclusions, one must go far to find his superior. From Wordnik.com. [Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro] Reference
Sound itself loses its sharp conciseness, and reaches the brain only as a blurred and indistinct impression. From Wordnik.com. ["Contemptible", by "Casualty"] Reference
Tennyson's familiar lines represent the typically modern outlook with the utmost accuracy and conciseness. From Wordnik.com. [Problems of Immanence: studies critical and constructive] Reference
In the preparation of such reports, two conditions are equally essential -- conciseness and comprehensiveness. From Wordnik.com. [A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries] Reference
There were reckoned to be five virtues of speech -- Hellenism, clearness, conciseness, propriety, distinction. From Wordnik.com. [Guide to Stoicism] Reference
To sum up which humiliating conclusion good George Herbert has put the matter thus with epigrammatic conciseness. From Wordnik.com. [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference
Neither do we find in Motley the occasional terse conciseness of Botta, -- little epics enclosed in a short sentence. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 3, March, 1862] Reference
For instrumental music, where many octaves are used, the system is modified without losing its simplicity and conciseness. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, August, 1878] Reference
Mrs. Preston's style has the rare merit in these days of uniting conciseness and directness to grace and beauty of expression. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 101, May, 1876] Reference
My ears delight in a well-turned and properly finished period of words, and they like conciseness, and disapprove of redundancy. From Wordnik.com. [The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4] Reference
Only by conciseness has it been possible to give even a summary of the principles of dietetics within the limit or this pamphlet. From Wordnik.com. [The Chemistry of Food and Nutrition] Reference
Their ease and elegance are most commendable, but they lost somewhat more in force and conciseness than is thought correct to-day. From Wordnik.com. [Short Story Writing A Practical Treatise on the Art of The Short Story] Reference
Bruyere, with a broader outlook upon humanity, had much of the same fine analysis, with less conciseness and elegance of expression. From Wordnik.com. [The Women of the French Salons] Reference
But the arrangement which embraces the properly distributed explanation of the facts, ought to have brevity, completeness, conciseness. From Wordnik.com. [The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4] Reference
The author of this tract has aimed at conciseness, so far as the nature of the argument would allow, not employing "those arts by which a big book is made.". From Wordnik.com. [On Calvinism] Reference
The whole organisation of the English State is summed up in a line of admirable conciseness and energy, in which the poet shows the king surrounded by his people. From Wordnik.com. [A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance] Reference
But the conciseness of the lapidary style and the constant repetition of stereotyped formulas naturally render that kind of text hardly explicit and sometimes enigmatical. From Wordnik.com. [The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism] Reference
"This is an excellent little volume, and from its conciseness, clearness, and comprehensiveness is a great improvement on the well-known 'Pearson' of an earlier generation.". From Wordnik.com. [Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys] Reference
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