laconicism
laconism

This piece seems out of the folk art tradition but it is modern in its laconicism.

Papinian with his extreme laconicism makes matters difficult for the translator and the interpreter.

'What do you mean by that?' barked the woman, obviously annoyed by Blanche's laconicism.

The movie was set in Maine, and it pumped every cliché of down-easter laconicism, stoicism and eccentricity.

American historian Robert C. Tucker calls it "the definitive work on Romanian communism", and Stanomir "a monument of erudition and laconicism".

The second painting, from 1872, "The Pair-Oared Shell" (Eakins's titles are the height of laconicism), depicts the Biglin brothers, racing professionals, practicing at sunset.

The laconicism of its prismatic volumes, completed with two slightly pointed cupolas, is shaded by a well-proportioned vertical line of the minaret rising above in the north-eastern corner of the building.

But the laconicism of the code was not an objective property of the code; it depended, rather, on the degree of knowledge of the receiver - or, more precisely, on the difference in knowledge possessed by sender and receiver.

In the former category were the blunt epigrams of Otto Luening's Third Short Sonata, the graceful, playful modesty of Ibert's "Jeux" and the altogether more wintry laconicism of Edison Denisov's Four Pieces for the two instruments.

One of his most ambitious Fairfield County undertakings (current whereabouts unknown) was for the Social Room of Fairfield Court, an early public housing project built by the W.P.A., and here he displays a kind of ease and laconicism as if he understood that the room would be a place to unwind.

Such admiration of the Spartans is referred to as Laconism or Laconophilia.

This love or admiration of Sparta is known as Laconism or Laconophilia.

In ancient Athens, Laconism began as a current of thought and feeling after the Persian Wars.

The opposite of verbosity is succinctness that can be found in plain language (or plain English) and laconism.

Laconism may refer to:

Hair Dryer , the first part of this spot, uses a combination of laconism and high production values to appeal to both parents and children.

"Could be relevant," Purdy said, succumbing to the laconism apparently endemic to the law-enforcement community i. "Don't see how," said Bill.

Similarly, a laconism is a figure of speech in which someone uses very few words to express an idea, in keeping with the Spartan reputation for verbal austerity.

Nowhere else can such eloquent laconism can be found, such definitive and exquisite writing, such freedom of expression and really magnificent demonstration of over matter.

Its swiftness and leanness is an auditory illusion, comparable to the laconism of Ernest Hemingway and Elmore Leonard, whose mannered dialogue looks so "lifelike" on the page.