succinctness

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To some extent, this is where the purity vs. succinctness debate comes into play.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 24, 2022

Here, then, are 66 of my favorite books, in no particular order, each described with telegraphic succinctness.

From Washington Post • Jan. 11, 2022

It may seem obvious, and it’s certainly been said before, but I like the succinctness there.

From Slate • Apr. 15, 2020

As Coates himself put it, with poetic succinctness, “They made us into a race. We made ourselves into a people.”

From The New Yorker • Nov. 26, 2019

“Decollat,” says a contemporary document, with a grim succinctness, “in castrum Londin: vulgo turris appellatur.”

From The Portsmouth Road and Its Tributaries To-Day and in Days of Old by Harper, Charles G. (Charles George)