How To Use Concision In A Sentence
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Pärt has written many a cappella works for several voices or chorus, and this new one, apart from its concision, is typical.
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The 10 tracks on Delay Trees' recent self-titled full-length are models of concision, each stuffing a Sigur Ros epic's worth of buildup into four or so minutes at a time.
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Road Movies" is also a masterpiece of concision, which is more than one could say for Penderecki's 1999 Violin Sonata.
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It might have been much longer but that she'd had practice in the craft of concision preparing plot summaries for studios.
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Its charming concision allows the reader to reflect on the poet's experiences and thoughts unencumbered; without needing to have any prior knowledge of the subject.
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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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In the interests of concision and readability, I cut 120,000 words from the typescript.
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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 concision agent, we do business on commission basis.
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In 2009 I want to make a big effort to wrestle my posts back to a more reasonable length, concision is a virtue after all, and to make my style clearer and less intellectual.
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Her mode of expression is a disarmingly clear and accessible style, characterized by concision, rhyme, wordplay and wit," concluded the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, which each year chooses winners through a secretive process and does not accept nominations.
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No subject, it seems, was off limits to the enterprising epigrammatist, and the only binding obligation was to have the courage of one's concision.
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Noam Chomsky summed up the difference better than anyone with his withering commentary on "concision" on television.
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Archeologist Timothy Taylor determines with lapidary concision that ‘There are no laws of human behavior.’
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It's the band's first album on ATO, the label founded partly by Dave Matthews, and its 10 tracks come stamped with pop concision.
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The American creed is expressed with inspired concision in the words of the Declaration of Independence.
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The precision and concision she has honed over half a century's devotion to that craft - getting maximum effect from the minimal - ensure that these terse pieces can speak volumes.
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Sir Lawrence's subtle narrative a marvel of concision, even over more than 500 pages.
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Certainly, the canonic writing of the first movement, the contrapuntally distinct lines of the second, and the thematic concision of both appear less evident in the last two movements.
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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 merit of his _Maximes_ as examples of style -- a style which may be described as lapidary -- is incomparable; it is impossible to say more, or to say it more adequately, in little; but one wearies in the end of the monotony of an idea unalterably applied, of unqualified brilliance, of unrelieved concision; we anticipate our surprise, and its purpose is defeated.
A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II.
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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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It might have been much longer but that she'd had practice in the craft of concision preparing plot summaries for studios.
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I have argued this for months, but rarely with such concisions.
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· I hardly ever do bullet points – you know concision is not my greatest suit, and they seem to have made the formatting go crazy.
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The pieces were expertly crafted and shaped with epigrammatic concision (none longer than five minutes).
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