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
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 Sir Richard Francis Burton
The coldness is most often simply the apparent coldness of restraint; the baldness, the laconism of a spirit that abhorred loose, ungainly manners of speech.
From Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers by Paul Rosenfeld
She answered other questions with equal firmness and laconism.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850. by Various
For that hand writes often by abbreviations, hieroglyphics, and short characters, which, like the laconism on Belshazzar’s wall, are not to be made out but by a key from that Spirit that indited them.’
From Sir Thomas Browne and his 'Religio Medici' an Appreciation by Alexander Whyte
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