laconism

Example Sentences

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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

You may, perhaps, imagine that laconism could no further go.

From Friend Mac Donald by O'Rell, Max

First he had not sufficient command of English to translate with the necessary laconism and assonance: secondly in his day British Philistinism was too rampant to permit a literal translation.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 08 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

I have purposed to avoid all exuberant ornaments of style, all pompous parade of erudition, and contented myself with a plain diction, and a strict laconism.

From A Guide for the Religious Instruction of Jewish Youth by Reggio, Isaac Samuele

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