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Example sentences for "concision"

Lexicographically close words:
conciliis; concilio; concise; concisely; conciseness; conclave; conclaves; conclud; conclude; concluded
  1. Beyond which statements I see no great concision or any clarity to be gained by rearranging my perhaps too elliptical comments on individual books.

  2. His ear was nice, and his Attic taste had the singular merit of giving concision to the perplexed periods of our early style.

  3. But it was possible that the French language might have acquired a concision and vigour of which it is now destitute, for those early writers threw out a more original force than their tame successors.

  4. Its force, brevity, and concision have already been noticed, At the same time they do not seem to have been natural to him.

  5. We may find an example of his brevity and concision at the end of the “Creed”; the passage will also serve to show how greatly his teaching differed from that of the Church.

  6. The directness and concision of his style must, however, always commend themselves to the reader, even to those who regret that in this work he tampered with the doctrines of the olden Church.

  7. As always on such measures, he spoke with extreme concision and moderation, packing his argument with authoritative deliverances, and making only a quiet and simple appeal to good feeling.

  8. After Sir Thomas May, Bradlaugh was himself examined, and conducted his case with the lawyer-like exactitude and the more than lawyer-like concision and cogency which even his enemies admitted to belong to all his legal pleadings.

  9. The rich continence of Flaubert, the stippled concision of Merimee or the dry-sherry wit of Voltaire are surer guides.

  10. He is a magician, spectral at times, yet his songs have the homely lyric fervour and concision of Robert Burns.

  11. While it is not as long-breathed as the C sharp minor Scherzo, its concision makes it more tempting to the student.

  12. Its intense naturalness is due in great part to the stern concision of the lines, where no word is wasted, where every sentence is fraught with the utmost it can convey.

  13. With exquisite concision she sets her carefully selected facts and types before you, and being the antithesis of priggishness in a priggish city, she glorifies "the common growth of Mother Earth," and compels your agreement.

  14. He seldom speaks to the world, and when he breaks his habit of reticence it is to utter an aphorism, perfect in concision and cynicism.

  15. The dialogue has the purity of tone, the clear-cut concision that belong to its Hellenic model.

  16. He urged Flaubert to cut the novel--the concision of which is so admirable, the organic quality of which is absolute.

  17. But in the current of his swift, clear narrative and under the spell of his dry magic and peptonized concision we do not miss the peacock graces and coloured splendours of Flaubert or Chateaubriand.


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    Other words:
    brevity; curtness; economy; reserve