Word: laconicism
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In the U.S. and Europe, authorities were exultant over Zubaydah's arrest. American Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said dryly, "There's no question but that having an opportunity to visit with him is helpful." He added, "Sometimes I understate for emphasis." French officials, who have been tracking the Palestinian...
DIED. NIGEL HAWTHORNE, 72, British stage and screen actor internationally known for his role as the pompous, conniving civil servant Sir Humphrey Appleby in the 1980s British television series Yes, Minister; of a heart attack; in Hertfordshire, England. Expert at dry, laconic wit, Hawthorne scored a late-career triumph in...
The first part of the book reads like a pastoral of a child's suburban springtime. 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. He lives in a slightly odd, magical universe...
“The blurbs are so terse and laconic that they don’t really provide administrators with information that they don’t already know,” Levy said.
Johnson is a writer of some success—his pseudo-novel Jesus’ Son, comprised of close-knit stories, was recently filmed. In addition to novels and stories, Johnson also writes poetry, and from reading Seek you’d know it. His sparkling prose is simultaneously laconic...