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
Nonetheless, astronomers and astrophysicists came together to write a single compendious paper about the event.
From Science Magazine ● Oct. 16, 2017
The two early works by him that happily overlapped this season in major London productions are often regarded as the merely playful jeux d’esprit of a giddy lad with an insatiable and compendious mind.
From New York Times ● May 1, 2017
It may be odd not to find it in this compendious store of resonances .
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 11, 2015
The complete institutions of which this academy had to boast, even in its outset, are described in a compendious manner by its accomplished secretary, in his work entitled the New Guide, already frequently cited.
From The History of Painting in Italy, Vol. IV (of 6) from the Period of the Revival of the Fine Arts to the End of the Eighteenth Century by Luigi Antonio Lanzi
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