How To Use Laconic In A Sentence
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In his world of small-time hustlers, grouchy thugs and laconic crimefighters, there's always somebody with a new angle to work or a new beef to settle.
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You can cultivate a laconic shrug of the shoulders for use when the conversation turns to your putting, or putting in general.
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In his habitual laconical way he counselled me to reserve all my savings for our journey, and to settle with my creditors when my Parisian successes had provided the necessary means.
My Life — Volume 1
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It is difficult to say when the idea of Australians as an inarticulate and laconic people took hold, but by the twentieth century this had become a staple of Australian cultural criticism.
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Hunt's laconic expertise provided a perfect counterpoint to Walker's high-octane delivery.
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Some - but not all - of the 1946 drawings are uncharacteristically laconic and slightly benumbed.
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In David McPhail's hands, George is laconic, with an embittered acceptance of an underachieving life.
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Whizz-bangs," was the corporal's laconical remark.
Attack An Infantry Subaltern's Impression of July 1st, 1916
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Real Tuscan villas possess a sort of laconic elegance from their relatively unornamented rustic style: the rough hewn here is more of the Home Depot ‘I forgot’ variety.
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However, he soon finds the laconic Charlotte to be more than he bargained for, as she shreds every assumption or attempt at social niceties that he makes.
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If this were not the case, we would have no reason to consider Hemingway's "style" to have been as revolutionary as it in fact was, since he wouldn't be using his autistically laconic style for deliberate effect but merely to "reflect" the thinking of a series of autistically laconic characters.
Style in Fiction
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Laconically, Brecht observed that ‘war, the great dialectician, puts every organ to the test.’
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The popular image of him as a laconic, amiable figure is not entirely accurate.
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I derived a surprising degree of comfort from this laconic but not unaffectionate greeting.
ULTIMATE PRIZES
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His laconic intellect and twinkling eye will never be forgotten by those who knew him.
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In front of it, a small furnace is constructed with vents into the Laconicum, and with a stokehole that can be very carefully closed to prevent the flames from escaping and being wasted.
The Ten Books on Architecture
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He was a laconical man and not prone to idle conversation.
Under the Hammer
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Is Australia's comic style too laconic to fit the rapid-fire style of a classic screwball?
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He's nothing if not honest, blunt, irascible, generous, laconic, witty and enigmatic.
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Though he makes some brief excursions into consciously literary forms, the overall tone of his writing is terse, colloquial, practical, laconic.
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However from this disaster was born the image of the Aussie Digger, a brave and laconic battler, betrayed by the mother country but facing impossible odds with humour, courage and mateship.
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Their remake of the 1969 John Wayne semiclassic hews faithfully to Charles Portis' laconically funny novel, adding just a few Coenesque moments of irony, disconcerting violence and grotesquerie.
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In the Arsenale, the exhibition's theme of light finds glorious expression in Urs Fischer's reproduction of Giambologna's sculpture "The Rape of the Sabine Women" in the form of an enormous candle, which will burn down during the course of the show—the label on the wall laconically describes the dimensions as "variable.
Setting the Art World Alight
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The tone is largely flat and unvaried — perhaps because of the translation, perhaps because of the author's laconic approach.
Times, Sunday Times
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the laconic reply; `yes'
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Wielding batons, they looked like versions of Robocop minus the laconic wit and intelligence chip.
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In addition there was a fellow in a brown bowler hat, another in a shapeless cloth cap with a peak, and both added their encouragements, turning to Waistcoat in a laconic collusion.
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Though he makes some brief excursions into consciously literary forms, the overall tone of his writing is terse, colloquial, practical, laconic.
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This interpretation was then bolstered by Tacitus' dry laconic wit and Lucretius' pagan atomism.
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At the second visit of Gryphus, Cornelius, contrary to all his former habits, asked the old jailer, with the most winning voice, about her health; but Gryphus contented himself with giving the laconical answer, --
The Black Tulip
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This book is perhaps the best introduction to the Pali texts, with their peculiarly meticulous and laconic style.
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Tanaka Gin was a slender, dark-faced man with the kind of laconic grace one often found in Japan's cinema detec - tives or samurai heroes.
Second Skin
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McCarthy did thrive on television, where his laconic, relaxed style showed off to best effect.
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‘Your little toadies seem a bit pusillanimous,’ she observed laconically, curious to see if he was as smart as they said he was.
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There is a laconic drawl, an ever so slight nasal twang to his voice.
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The dialogue is laconic, direct, sometimes drily humorous.
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In contrast to the laconic style of most garage MCs, Mills rhymes in a startling, panicked yelp.
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There is a laconic drawl, an ever so slight nasal twang to his voice.
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Instead of underlining the drama with music or emphatic cuts, the film takes a dry, laconic approach.
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He was a bright boy from Yorkshire with a dark and saturnine look and laconic manner, and he was already writing strong verse.
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My binders were uniformly black, their dividers white with clear tabs, their contents laconically labeled in Garamond, which is elegant, as well as economical with space.
Wired Campus
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‘Too soon to tell,’ he laconically riposted.
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I expressed my thoughts thus ,trying to be laconical.
Science Friday tomorrow -- Monkey Girl, Flock of Dodos - The Panda's Thumb
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It's a pretty enough building made special by its literary association, its laconic guides and the resident cats with their freakish six- or seven-toed feet.
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Known as ‘Soldier’ or ‘Titus’, the cheerful Oates was a quiet, good-tempered individual noted for his laconic wit.
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The performances are as sharp as a tack, with Sergent and Blackburn quite brilliant as the ‘cynical pustule’ Pump and the laconically lugubrious Smith.
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Jon, the focus of the book, spends his laconic, carefree schooldays fooling around with his best friend Bjorn, reading comic books, eating candy and telling jokes.
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All traces of courtly refinement and laconic humour had vanished; he was now callous and vulpine, the renegade spirit of the hoodlum streets returning to his lost playground.
Ballardian » Simon O’Carrigan’s The Drowned World
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One thing the Bulgarian and Argentinian have in common is their laconic playing styles.
Times, Sunday Times
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Clipped, laconic, understated, but with quirky rubatos and accelerandos to convey something simmering underneath.
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Between them, McGrath and Gilchrist seem to make up two halves of an Australian equation - McGrath the laconic and obdurate inland bushie, Gilchrist the more talkative fellow from a sub-tropic coast.
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The language in the book is terse and concise, almost laconic, and very much to the point.
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He spoke in an unfeasibly low voice, with the lyrical and laconic speech so typical of the Jamaicans.
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In addition there was a fellow in a brown bowler hat, another in a shapeless cloth cap with a peak, and both added their encouragements, turning to Waistcoat in a laconic collusion.
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This they explained away with laconic bemusement, observing that the break occurred while moving a stubborn prisoner, and “the soldier concerned had placed the handguard against a VC head with considerable force.”
The Gun
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If you can readily interpret all this laconic shorthand you are either a well-tried collector or an extraordinarily apt pupil.
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In addition there was a fellow in a brown bowler hat, another in a shapeless cloth cap with a peak, and both added their encouragements, turning to Waistcoat in a laconic collusion.
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The dialogue, though, is chanted in a peculiarly laconic way.
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The dialogue is laconic, direct, sometimes drily humorous.
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The film is narrated by the laconic narrator that Disney used a lot then.
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Still, his nervousness proved to be unwarranted as he kept the audience in rapt attention with his loose, off the cuff demeanor and laconic sense of humor (it didn't hurt that BodyWorld is very funny; Shaw's voices for his characters were hilariously fitting).
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The long, laconic wait for the fight is dry, unillusioned and sickening.
The Times Literary Supplement
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In the far right hand corner is the laconicum or sudatorium, a circular room which served as a sauna.
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If you can readily interpret all this laconic shorthand you are either a well-tried collector or an extraordinarily apt pupil.
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One thing the Bulgarian and Argentinian have in common is their laconic playing styles.
Times, Sunday Times
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Whenever I experience this, whenever a laconic sourness is thrust into my spirit, I close my eyes and seek for something inside me that can anchor me against the unpleasant wave that threatens to engulf me, cap-a-pie.
Notes from the peanut gallery
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It manages to stay above the pack thanks to Lovett's laconic drawl and some fine honky-tonk piano.
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The dreamlike exoticism was heightened by a video performance of a '20s-style ballad, featuring the undulations of a laconic singer and a provocatively pierced nude male dancer.
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Ian had a self - deprecating sense of humour, perfect comic timing and laconic delivery which never failed to puncture the pretentious.
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Hunt's laconic expertise provided a perfect counterpoint to Walker's high-octane delivery.
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This design has the advantage of having a laconic structure and economizing the hardware resource.
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Laconic, deceptively unassuming and structurally clear, these works have a straightforward factuality that ultimately carries the weight of their conviction.
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Then I re-read the book as the draft of a play about a grumpy, logorrheic stranger stranded in a strange, laconic land, an exercise that turned the joke back on Mr. Theroux.
Stranger In a Strange Land
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Barthes's writing has always fed controversy: its laconic pronouncements irritate those who hold other views.
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After completion of laconic epistolary compositions she abandoned the implement of calligraphy in the encaustic pigment, exposed to the corrosive action of copperas, green vitriol and nutgall.
Ulysses
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The second, Jin, is a laconic and enigmatic ronin, a disgraced and masterless samurai who travels the land for reasons unknown.
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He's an amiable if laconic sort, seemingly uninterested in talking about himself.
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Bear and Coyote knew where they were going, although for the moment, Coyote was rivalling Bear in being laconic.
A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
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I have tried to emulate his laconic, ‘devil-may-care’ charm, and I have certainly taken on board his capacity to say a flippant remark at times when the rest of the world is in mucho serious mode.
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This laconic roller of his own cigarettes was an authority on Australian marsupials, especially the kangaroos.
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Becky's a laconic but never sarcastic presence in the film, commenting on Paul's life with absolute confidence and a great deal of compassion.
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When he was fifteen, his father, a man of forty, had locked him in a room with a girl bride he had never seen before and laconically told him to produce a son.
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Linguistic style: Someone may write in an ornate style, speak in a laconic style, and have an aggressive style when arguing.
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The use of steam baths; or saunas; for therapeutic purposes in the treatment of various conditions and illnesses, as well as for religious purification, personal cleanliness, and private or social relaxation dates from at least the time of ancient Rome, where the sudatoria or laconica (steam rooms) are known to have existed at around 3 B.C
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a broader road which bore unmistakable signs of military workmanship in its construction, and here he met, and passed with laconic greeting, a few peasant women returning with empty baskets from some neighbouring market; or perhaps a "cantonnier" here and there, plodding home with
The Slave of the Lamp
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His casual remark to Dr. Werner, and to the landscape, as Grushnitsky's corpse topples into a ravine is a masterpiece of the laconic: "Finita la commedia!
A Doomed Young Man
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He spoke in an unfeasibly low voice, with the lyrical and laconic speech so typical of the Jamaicans.
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A slight frown and a laconic'Yes,'were the answer.
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Brazil's broadcasting style is calm and laconic, overlaid with a sporadic bullying streak towards the polite Beecroft.
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Bergen quotes Muhammad Musa, "a laconic, massively built commander" who led 600 Afghan soldiers to the Tora Bora front lines, on the fanatical braveness of al-Qaeda's fighters.
Peter Bergen's "The Longest War"
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Terse, spare, laconic, elliptic; at its sharpest it is comparable with Hemingway's, a writer with whom Hammett is often bracketed.
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Feet up at the back of the studio, he maintained a laconic wit while keeping a beady eye on proceedings.
Times, Sunday Times
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Ella and Joe do not remark on this departure from his usual laconic monosyllables.
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If you can readily interpret all this laconic shorthand you are either a well-tried collector or an extraordinarily apt pupil.
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Wills's wife had been a circus bareback rider; when they split, he laconically drawled: ‘I should have married the horse.’
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Chester, the mild and laconic prematurely bald guy.
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I was therefore able to rejoice Liszt with the following laconical protest which I sent him from my Swiss resort: 'Stahr is wrong, and Lohengrin is right.'
My Life — Volume 1
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It was laconical enough, for it had but one word, and that was
Heiress of Haddon
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They're an eclectic bunch, occasionally laconic but never unfriendly.
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To say, then, that it is JUST that barbarism should subserve civilization is a laconical axiom, which decides a plain question of right and wrong.
The Right of American Slavery
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The soldier, becoming bored with the game, laconically reached out his cigarette end and burst the balloon in my face.
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Americans called a loquacious boasting people; now, as far as my limited acquaintance with them goes, I consider they are almost laconic, and if
The Backwoods of Canada Being Letters From The Wife of an Emigrant Officer, Illustrative of the Domestic Economy of British America
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The film is narrated by the laconic narrator that Disney used a lot then.
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Costner's laconic style works for Charley, who is intended to be someone who doesn't show a lot of emotion.
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Ella and Joe do not remark on this departure from his usual laconic monosyllables.
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The legendary Earp, embodied by the serenely laconic Henry Fonda, was apotheosized in John Ford's spare and beautiful "My Darling Clementine" (1946), a movie blissfully unconcerned with the facts.
Kevin Costner Rides Again
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A novelist should be a comfortable, garrulous, communicative, gossiping fortune-teller; not a grim, laconical, oracular sibyl.
My Novel — Complete
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Feet up at the back of the studio, he maintained a laconic wit while keeping a beady eye on proceedings.
Times, Sunday Times
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The problem is likely to be, at least in part, Hilberg's laconic style.
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A laconic, crimson-coloured anti-hero, he is a half-human, half-demon agent in a government agency that fights paranormal nasties.
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With this laconic threat, which he accompanied with a snarl that gave him the appearance of being particularly in earnest, Mr Quilp bade her clear the teaboard away, and bring the rum.
The Old Curiosity Shop
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As the story of some rural drama unfurls, the track builds with more and more instruments fading in: low, swelling guitar chords, laconic banjos, mournful harmonies.
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The language in the book is terse and concise, almost laconic, and very much to the point.
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Her beaming presence and laconic style are likeable and lifelike enough.
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A newspaper was spread out on the tiled pool surround, and he was murmuring laconically into a cordless telephone.
