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
For a day or two following Devereau's unsatisfactory laconism nothing developed.
From Winner Take All by Evans, Larry
The latter read it without betraying the slightest emotion, or even surprise; then, with a laconism that was wholly Laced�monian, he said: "Place the light."
From The Companions of Jehu by Dumas père, Alexandre
"Well, where have you been?" he said to her with offhand laconism.
From The Mayor of Casterbridge by Hardy, Thomas
"Whatso thou wouldest do that do!" a contrast with our European laconism.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 07 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
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