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
"En grant barnage fu Looys entrez; Quant il fu riche, Guillaume n'en sot gré," ends the poem with its usual laconism.
From The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) by George Saintsbury
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
You may, perhaps, imagine that laconism could no further go.
From Friend Mac Donald by Max O'Rell
Paling suddenly, Mr. Hildreth dropped his eyes and replied humbly, though with equal laconism, "I was thinking."
From Hand and Ring by Anna Katharine Green
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