terseness

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Terseness has been Calvin Coolidge's contribution to modern political speech in the U. S. Studious, abstract prolixity has been Herbert Hoover's.

From Time Magazine Archive

Sirs: He and Roget are next-of-kin, Thesaurus is his middle name, Terseness his very end and aim.

From Time Magazine Archive

Terseness may be dramatic—it often is, as in "Cover her face—mine eyes dazzle—She died young"—but in narrative it may check instead of provoke the imagination.

From Gudrid the Fair A Tale of the Discovery of America by Hewlett, Maurice Henry

Terseness was not the special excellency of Macaulay's own style, yet even he resented Bishop Patrick's notion that the Collects could be improved by amplification.

From A Short History of the Book of Common Prayer by Huntington, William Reed

Terseness can be both a beauty and a force; but, in comparison with Greece, how very little feeling for Nature these expressions contain!

From The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times by Biese, Alfred