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  • That dictionary, that Oxford Concise.†   (source)
  • As a would-be suicide note it had seemed at the time, in terms of concision anyway, a minor masterpiece.†   (source)
  • Rubenstein was in his early sixties then, a heavyset man with dark hair, a deep southern accent, and a very clear and concise manner.†   (source)
  • A little misdirected, maybe, but hey, the grammar was good, the writing concise.†   (source)
  • I tried to answer clearly and concisely each time.†   (source)
  • It was thus vitally necessary for the church to step forward with a concise summary of the Christian doctrine, both in order to distance itself from other religions and to prevent schisms within the Christian Church.†   (source)
  • Blomkvist described what he had found as concisely as possible, and he showed Frode the series of pictures from Järnvägsgatan.†   (source)
  • "We met once," he continues. "Your name is . . . Yuri . . . sort of like your sister Eri's except the first syllable."
    Keeping a cautious gaze fixed on him, she executes a concise factual correction: "Mari."†   (source)
  • I opened my mouth to give an extremely concise introduction and send Patch on his way, but Mom beat me to it.†   (source)
  • That's a concise way of putting it.†   (source)
  • Nico explained as concisely as possible.†   (source)
  • In his own handwriting he set down a concise synthesis of the studies by Monk Hermann. which he left Jose Arcadio so that he would be able to make use of the astrolabe, the compass, and the sextant.†   (source)
  • He had that crisp voice, low to middle tones. Very direct. Concise. Confident, without a lot of icing on the cake.†   (source)
  • Let me try to summarize things in a more concise manner.†   (source)
  • John Milton was supple and concise.†   (source)
  • On his way to a good, concise answer, he took a few logical detours: (i) even taking everything pass/fail, he knew that his grade in Calculus would have been an A, and (2) in his other classes, he simply doesn't know what his grades would be.†   (source)
  • Be concise.†   (source)
  • The assignment has been a lesson in taking risks, developing voice, and being concise.†   (source)
  • Sure, that's the way it was, I thought, a short, concise verbal coup de grace, straight to the nape of the neck.†   (source)
  • The radio announcer just reads the obituaries from the local paper out loud. People here say the program is very popular. It tells the town who has passed from their midst in a respectful and very concise manner.†   (source)
  • In short concise statements, Conklin related Krupkin's information.†   (source)
  • It was, as Warren doubtless appreciated, about as concise a synopsis of Adams's course through public life as could be found.†   (source)
  • Concisely, and without hysteria.†   (source)
  • That was exactly what she was after, those concise little quotes that gave an insight into his character.†   (source)
  • He met with secret agents and sympathizers in taverns, churches, and hotels throughout the Northeast and down through Maryland, always expanding his web of contacts, making his plans more concise and his chances of success that much greater.†   (source)
  • Simple, concise, to the point.†   (source)
  • He did so, precisely and concisely.†   (source)
  • He knew it when Tate returned from the study with concise directions for locating the hidden D'Courtney.†   (source)
  • But I knew that he cared about me: he just conveyed it more subtly, as concise with expressing this emotion as he was with everything else. It was in the way he'd put his hand on the small of my back, for instance, or...   (source)
    concise = expressing much in few words or gestures
  • I WILL be more collected--more concise.   (source)
  • "Conciseness is underrated," she said easily.†   (source)
  • I've just learned a lot about being more concise.†   (source)
  • His final statements, however, were concise and without equivocation.†   (source)
  • There were things, so many clear, concise things, she'd like to say to him.†   (source)
  • In that time, she could pull out enough information for a concise, and very exclusive, article.†   (source)
  • He corrected her with a short, concise word calmly spoken.†   (source)
  • How much did she know of Hunter Brown that could be used in a concise, informative article?†   (source)
  • She'd put him very clearly, very concisely in his place.†   (source)
  • Its photography was first-class, just as its text was thoroughly researched and concisely written.†   (source)
  • How's that for concise, he thought.†   (source)
  • And so it was that when I finally raised the matter towards the end of our conversation that evening, I did so in as concise and businesslike a way as possible, concluding with the words: "I will speak to the two employees in my pantry tomorrow morning at ten thirty.†   (source)
  • Here over forty years had been written concise instructions to caretakers; persuasive arguments to statesmen; exquisite counsel to friends.†   (source)
  • In this cloying atmosphere Briony sometimes wrote her own concise letters home which conveyed little more than that she was not ill, not unhappy, not in need of her allowance and not about to change her mind in the way that her mother had predicted.†   (source)
  • Its core goal is a response to the following: Since the second half of the twentieth century, physics has gradually lost the concision and simplicity of its classical theories.†   (source)
  • Concisely put.†   (source)
  • In view of these limitations, and knowing Father's esteem for conciseness, I have listed here the revised round of duties he will from now on be expected to perform.†   (source)
  • With all due respect to poetic concision, the male of the species was endowed with a pair when a single might have sufficed.†   (source)
  • Once he had the attention of the room, this back-office clerk or accountant, this All-Russian pusher of pencils, asserted in a voice as tepid and prim as the word facilitate: "Poetic concision demands the avoidance of a pair of words when a single word will suffice."†   (source)
  • She opened the message and read a few concise lines about a board meeting to take place at the Millennium offices.†   (source)
  • Inspector Ian Ballantyne, as he usually did, answered questions with other questions rather than delivering concise answers himself.†   (source)
  • But at the urging of Edward Rutledge, who told Adams that only he had the facts at his command, Adams relinquished and gave the speech a second time "in as concise a manner as Icould, 'til at length the New Jersey gentlemen said they were fully satisfied and ready for the question.†   (source)
  • The pages that were missing were part of his brief from the agency which summarized Salander's psychological state in the most concise terms.†   (source)
  • He had no taste for sham, tact or pretension, and his credo as a professional soldier was unified and concise: he believed that the young men who took orders from him should be willing to give up their lives for the ideals, aspirations and idiosyncrasies of the old men he took orders from.†   (source)
  • Judge Atlee assumed the bench without the ritual of "Please rise for the court" and began with a concise statement of the case.†   (source)
  • Rufus Buckley had kicked things off with a oneand-a-half-hour marathon that had put the jury to sleep, and Jake's concise follow-up had been well received and much appreciated.†   (source)
  • With virtually no restrictions on what can be explored, and with their meters running, lawyers, especially those working for insurance companies and big corporations, have no interest in being concise.†   (source)
  • Life-style wanted him, wanted the strong, sometimes concise, sometimes ambiguous emotions his pictures could portray.†   (source)
  • He read the text, or the parable of the day's study, commented on it with Caesarean dryness and concision, and surrendered the service to his assistant, a shaven, spectacled, Wilsonian-looking man, also Scotch, who smiled with cold affection at them over his high shiny collar, and led them through the verses of a hymn, heaving up his arms and leering at them encouragingly, as they approached the chorus.†   (source)
  • He explained what he wanted, spreading upon the still air of the room one short, concise, complete paragraph of thought, perfect as a gem with clean edges.†   (source)
  • He bargained keenly, just as he spoke keenly, with unusual concision, and he was a man the university ought to have been pleased about, with his tall, free look of intelligence early crow-footed from the practice of consideration, a young Calhoun or statesman already, with clear blue spaces indicative of rigorous consistency and an untimely wrinkle, like the writing of a seismograph.†   (source)
  • For the sake of conciseness I think I had better give a brief résumé of the bare facts of the case.†   (source)
  • Then, a year's study of the lean, clear precision of Caesar, the magnificent structure of the style—the concision, the skeleton certainty, deadened by the disjointed daily partition, the dull parsing, the lumbering cliché of pedantic translation: "Having done all things that were necessary, and the season now being propitious for carrying on war, Caesar began to arrange his legions in battle array.†   (source)
  • With the conciseness of great art the button displayed two words: "Boosters-Pep!"†   (source)
  • Couched in clear and concise English he yet recognized it as the letter of a maniac.†   (source)
  • "Can't have you," said Montgomery's companion, concisely.†   (source)
  • Whilst he gave these curt and concise orders, he had completed his change of attire.†   (source)
  • "Too dry," was the concise expression he used in reference to this state.†   (source)
  • Mr. Smallweed bears the concise testimony, "A few!"†   (source)
  • Villefort had never been so concise and eloquent.†   (source)
  • But if he wrote to his father, no wonder he was concise.†   (source)
  • "Ay, ay," said John, with equal conciseness.†   (source)
  • The compression of history produces conciseness in the historian.†   (source)
  • To these communications Peggotty replied as promptly, if not as concisely, as a merchant's clerk.†   (source)
  • His arguments were concise, simple, and clear.†   (source)
  • Elizabeth replied very concisely that she was.†   (source)
  • Concisely he narrated all that had led up to the catastrophe, omitting nothing in Claggart's accusation and deposing as to the manner in which the prisoner had received it.†   (source)
  • That is clear and concise.†   (source)
  • If he can be educated to think clearly, concisely, and logically, freed of his habit of taking refuge in platitudes and prejudices and sentimentalisms, then I'm a militant Socialist.†   (source)
  • He came within the meaning of a still newer term, which had sprung into general use among Americans in 1880, and which concisely expressed the though of one whose dress or manners are calculated to elicit the admiration of susceptible young women a "masher."†   (source)
  • It happened now and then that a page of Bergotte would express precisely those ideas which I used often at night, when I was unable to sleep, to write to my grandmother and mother, and so concisely and well that his page had the appearance of a collection of mottoes for me to set at the head of my letters.†   (source)
  • "Thanks," he said concisely, as she put them down, and turned his shoulder upon her and stared out of the window again.†   (source)
  • Now, I'll state the case clearly and concisely to you, Watson, and maybe you can see a spark where all is dark to me."†   (source)
  • In clear terms and concise he told them what had taken place in the cabin; that the Master-at—arms was dead; that he who had killed him had been already tried by a summary court and condemned to death; and that the execution would take place in the early morning watch.†   (source)
  • He was evidently satisfied with the frankness of my story, which I told in concise sentences enough, for I felt horribly weak; and when it was finished he reverted at once to the topic of Natural History and his own biological studies.†   (source)
  • But though he was taking a holiday now, that is to say, he was doing no writing, he was so used to intellectual activity that he liked to put into concise and eloquent shape the ideas that occurred to him, and liked to have someone to listen to him.†   (source)
  • It contained half a line, in a hand perfectly British, and with a conciseness as perfectly Spartan: Thank you; be easy. d'Artagnan translated this for the others.†   (source)
  • "The name of the place where, and of the person with whom I lived, is my secret," I replied concisely.†   (source)
  • But Captain Smith is most remarkable for uniting to the virtues which characterized his contemporaries several qualities to which they were generally strangers; his style is simple and concise, his narratives bear the stamp of truth, and his descriptions are free from false ornament.†   (source)
  • M. de Bellegarde answered with suave concision that he thought as ill of them as possible, that they were going from bad to worse, and that the age was rotten to its core.†   (source)
  • He again vividly recalled the details of the battle, no longer dim, but definite and in the concise form in which he imagined himself stating them to the Emperor Francis.†   (source)
  • A short dialogue on the subject of the country ensued, on either side calm and concise—and soon put an end to by the entrance of Charlotte and her sister, just returned from her walk.†   (source)
  • …was ushered into this world of sorrow and trouble, by the parish surgeon, it remained a matter of considerable doubt whether the child would survive to bear any name at all; in which case it is somewhat more than probable that these memoirs would never have appeared; or, if they had, that being comprised within a couple of pages, they would have possessed the inestimable merit of being the most concise and faithful specimen of biography, extant in the literature of any age or country.†   (source)
  • I can hardly imagine the young man whom I saw talking with you the other day could express himself so well, if left quite to his own powers, and yet it is not the style of a woman; no, certainly, it is too strong and concise; not diffuse enough for a woman.†   (source)
  • His voice varied rapidly from a tremulous indecision (when the animal spirits seemed utterly in abeyance) to that species of energetic concision—that abrupt, weighty, unhurried, and hollow-sounding enunciation—that leaden, self-balanced and perfectly modulated guttural utterance, which may be observed in the lost drunkard, or the irreclaimable eater of opium, during the periods of his most intense excitement.†   (source)
  • those most concise and simple reasoners†   (source)
  • My charge would be much more concise than her's, and probably not much in the same spirit; all that I have to recommend being comprised in, do not spoil them, and do not physic them."†   (source)
  • M. de Villefort's communications on the subject were very limited and concise; he told her, in fact, that an explanation had taken place between M. Noirtier, M. d'Epinay, and himself, and that the marriage of Valentine and Franz would consequently be broken off.†   (source)
  • …of the female world at least, must feel with Lady Bertram that she was out of luck in having such a capital piece of Mansfield news as the certainty of the Grants going to Bath, occur at a time when she could make no advantage of it, and will admit that it must have been very mortifying to her to see it fall to the share of her thankless son, and treated as concisely as possible at the end of a long letter, instead of having it to spread over the largest part of a page of her own.†   (source)
  • …the question of his race, very particular, declaring himself Orleans and not Bourbon; thoroughly the first Prince of the Blood Royal while he was still only a Serene Highness, but a frank bourgeois from the day he became king; diffuse in public, concise in private; reputed, but not proved to be a miser; at bottom, one of those economists who are readily prodigal at their own fancy or duty; lettered, but not very sensitive to letters; a gentleman, but not a chevalier; simple, calm, and…†   (source)
  • The style of the letter was decidedly concise and terse; but Tom thought it the most wonderful specimen of composition that had appeared in modern times.†   (source)
  • In terms of grateful acknowledgment for the kindness of his brother, though expressed most concisely, he then delivered on paper his perfect approbation of all that was done, and his willingness to fulfil the engagements that had been made for him.†   (source)
  • And he began clearly and concisely to explain his reasons for dissatisfaction with the Russian government.†   (source)
  • I WILL be more collected—more concise.†   (source)
  • OF THE ORIGIN AND DESIGN OF GOVERNMENT IN GENERAL, WITH CONCISE REMARKS ON THE ENGLISH CONSTITUTION.†   (source)
  • [30] The definitions are from the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Current English (1914) and the Standard Dictionary (1906), respectively.†   (source)
  • All four words are in the Concise Oxford Dictionary, and only /lengthy/ is noted as "originally an Americanism."†   (source)
  • But in the Concise Oxford Dictionary, dated 1914, it is given as a sound English word, though its American origin is noted.†   (source)
  • In 1914, for example, Sir James was still protesting against dropping the first /e/ from /judgement/, a characteristic Americanism, but during the same year the Fowlers, in their Concise Oxford Dictionary, put /judgment/ ahead of /judgement/; and two years earlier the Authors' and Printers' Dictionary, edited by Horace Hart,[15] had dropped /judgement/ altogether.†   (source)
  • a conciseness which Pope toiled and sweated for, came as easy as wit to Voltaire.†   (source)
  • It may not be amiss in this place concisely to remark the origin and progress of the idea, which aims at the exclusion of military establishments in time of peace.†   (source)
  • To be concise, she is a very friendly good-natured woman; and so industrious to oblige, that the guests must be of a very morose disposition who are not extremely well satisfied in her house.†   (source)
  • While the two had been going along conversing in this fashion, the curate observed to Dorothea that she had shown great cleverness, as well in the story itself as in its conciseness, and the resemblance it bore to those of the books of chivalry.†   (source)
  • A conciseness to be matched in English by nobody except Pope, who can say a plagiarizing enemy "steals much, spends little, and has nothing left," a conciseness which Pope toiled and sweated for, came as easy as wit to Voltaire.†   (source)
  • To be concise, therefore, imagine me married; imagine me with my husband, at the feet of my aunt; and then imagine the maddest woman in Bedlam, in a raving fit, and your imagination will suggest to you no more than what really happened.†   (source)
  • The argument under the present head may be put into a very concise form, which appears altogether conclusive.†   (source)
  • "Sancho Panza's proverbs," said the duchess, "though more in number than the Greek Commander's, are not therefore less to be esteemed for the conciseness of the maxims.†   (source)
  • But as a more concise, and at the same time equally satisfactory, evidence, I will refer to the example of two States, attested by two unexceptionable authorities.†   (source)
  • A concise review of the events that have attended confederate governments will further illustrate this important doctrine; an inattention to which has been the great source of our political mistakes, and has given our jealousy a direction to the wrong side.†   (source)
  • …York: ASSUMING it therefore as an established truth that the several States, in case of disunion, or such combinations of them as might happen to be formed out of the wreck of the general Confederacy, would be subject to those vicissitudes of peace and war, of friendship and enmity, with each other, which have fallen to the lot of all neighboring nations not united under one government, let us enter into a concise detail of some of the consequences that would attend such a situation.†   (source)
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