compendious
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The genius of Kosky’s singularly musical production is that it magically makes the orchestra itself a compendious magic flute.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2026
These works don’t attempt to replace the compendious authority of traditional biography but, rather, enter into dialogue with it by reflecting more on some facts in a life and its work than on others.
From New York Times • Dec. 15, 2021
Nonetheless, astronomers and astrophysicists came together to write a single compendious paper about the event.
From Science Magazine • Oct. 16, 2017
It may be odd not to find it in this compendious store of resonances .
From The New Yorker • Oct. 11, 2015
For a long time just such a compendious volume, with just such concisely and authoritatively written articles, has been needed....
From The Story of Malta by Ballou, Maturin Murray