Word: succinct
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...greatly to be feared that Britain's John Arden is just such a playwright. In this play he has managed to fulminate for very nearly three hours on General Sherman's admirably succinct text: War is hell...
...court is expected to hand down a ruling in ample time for the South's spring primaries. Meanwhile, one of the most succinct arguments in support of the law came not from Katzenbach but from Associate Justice Hugo Black, a native of Alabama. Said Black from the bench: "It's politically known to everybody in the country that these tests have been used to deny people their right to vote...
...Juan is Strauss despite himself. Not only is this tone poem typically melodious and brilliantly orchestrated, but it is succinct, unpretentious, and healthy; that is to say, atypical Strauss. The composer captures both his hero's dynamism, in several ingenious climaxes where themes of Don and his women intertwine, and his pathos, in the eerie and mystical close...
...would be impossible before the end of 1966, if he were to await results of an electoral redistribution now under way. "Do we want to begin our centennial year [1967] with an election?" he asked. "That could mean an election this fall," leaped a newsman. "You have a very succinct way of putting things," winked Pearson. A few hours later, he told a Liberal dinner group that he would "pray for wisdom and patience during the months and years ahead-if I am chosen to continue to serve...
...woman and the emotions of a child," Landau tells her. Soon Jean's reputation is made by a ruthless producer whose playbuoyant lair features a bedroom equipped with a Roman-size bath, a circular bed, mirrors, and an adjoining jungle paradise with torrential downpours on tap. His succinct proposition: "Do you think you can be comfortable here...