concision

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Each one is a small masterpiece of concision that combines erudition, insight and dry humor.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 17, 2025

His exuberant acting benefits from the severity of Beckett’s concision.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 16, 2025

This interview, based on that event, has been edited for clarity and concision.

From Salon • Apr. 22, 2024

In part that’s because of their concision — he typically writes short lines and never too many — and in part because they build an almost impenetrably tight argument through structure and sound.

From New York Times • Jun. 23, 2023

No doubt, if I had wish' to pay my court To critics, or to hail the setting sun Of tyranny of all kinds, my concision Were more;—but I was born for opposition.

From Don Juan by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron