| His fiction aspired to, and often achieved, a Chekhovian mixture of comic concision and pathos. |
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| The gift of her language, therefore, is not one of exfoliation, but of continual scission and concision. |
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| The shortest of the books under review, it has the merits of concision, clarity, and simplicity. |
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| As ringtones become part of our environment, they could push pop music toward new levels of concision, repetition, and catchiness. |
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| The American creed is expressed with inspired concision in the words of the Declaration of Independence. |
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| In the interests of concision and readability, I cut 120,000 words from the typescript. |
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| They all wrote well: Mill simply, Russell entertainingly, Ayer with sparkling concision. |
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| I think The Ghost Writer, with its combination of concision and daring and wild ambition, might be a perfect novel. |
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| Generally, asyndeton offers the feeling of speed and concision to lists and phrases and clauses, but occasionally the effect cannot be so easily categorized. |
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| But short links are useful anywhere on the internet where concision is valued. Convenience has its cost. |
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| That is a pity, as the wit, clarity and concision of his earlier chapters on Europe, America and jihadism are bracing. |
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| The following transcript has been lightly edited for clarity and concision. |
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| Again and again in the exhibition, one feels that Conner not only got there first but did so with welcome concision, intensity and forthrightness. |
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| The headnotes to the individual texts similarly balance detail and concision, with a solid grounding in Lydgate scholarship. |
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| Clarity and concision, however, should not be an absolute goal, as it is also necessary for judges to preserve in their decisions precision and completeness of reasoning. |
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