laconism
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The only time he abandoned his Trappist laconism was when Alba went to visit him in his tunnel of books.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
"Well, where have you been?" he said to her with offhand laconism.
From The Mayor of Casterbridge by Hardy, Thomas
"Blight, Mildew, and Smut," he replied, with the laconism of one who is absolutely certain of his own mind.
From Crome Yellow by Huxley, Aldous
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 A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by Saintsbury, George
The just and elegant laconism of Byron, by substituting the past for the present tense, may now be adopted as a faithful and brief summary of what was George Canning.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 268, August 11, 1827 by Various
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