Avoidance of unnecessary words.
Sinónimos
Examples for "brevity"
Examples for "brevity"
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The tones were gruff, and almost Indian-like in the brevity of expression.
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And then with equal brevity, I outlined the case against Victoria Garrison.
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But the attribution may be due to the brevity of the narrative.
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The record, of course, consisted in the brevity of her two-inch tail.
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The single thing I work to attain in any gag is brevity.
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Thus far Meyer's terse instructions have been high-concept: Turn on the sex.
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Napster issued a terse statement denying that its future is in jeopardy.
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We just get very terse statements that the case has been solved.
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There are different ways to write expressions, some more terse than others.
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Perhaps because it was so terse; perhaps because it was so characteristic.
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The petitions should be put in as concise a form as possible.
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All the merit of proverbs consists in the concise and picturesque expression.
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Were there opportunities to add more natural language or be more concise?
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It was clear, concise, persuasive, and it had the jury's attention throughout.
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Winston Churchill's answer to that perennial query was perhaps the most concise.
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While Shadow is more laconic, Whittle's physical presence looms in every frame.
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Then, elevating his eyebrows in mild impatience, he made the laconic announcement:
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Her laconic speech places her at the bottom rung of the storytellers.
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He leans back in his chair and continues in a laconic voice.
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He signed this laconic order, which I instantly despatched to General Ferino.
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Twitter used to be a cool place to share your succinct thoughts.
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In an unprecedented press conference, Gordhan made some succinct points on Friday.
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Cadorna's judgement on the assaults on Mrzli was succinct: 'heroic but senseless'.
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The message, loud and clear, is a succinct one from the captain.
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It was the difference between saying something loquaciously and keeping it succinct.
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But conciseness is not the quality I most often detect in reviewing.
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The tale is told, in general, with complete simplicity, sobriety, and conciseness.
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The trade-off between time and conciseness brings both rewards and penalties.
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The conciseness of that statement belies the enormity of the task.
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The verdict is none the less just because of its conciseness.
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Baedeker, with his customary over terseness, begins and ends the tale thus:
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The following table illustrates the perfect simplicity and terseness of the Esperanto verb.
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His expression is calm, but he's angry-theterseness in his voice betrays him.
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Of the white-collar jobholders he said with his usual terseness, Hell!
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Given their terseness, it is hard to explain further without revealing significant plot details.
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He answers the questions posed by the Bald Beater's attorney with crisp succinctness.
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I admire your succinctness, Master Skimmer, and confess you for the pink of etiquette.
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Then Dora replied with a succinctness acquired from her father:
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It was like a bomb, and a bomb is the very last thing in succinctness.
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I know this is a lengthy note (succinctness has never been my strong suit).
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Guibert's penchant for alliteration, rhyming clausulae, and pithiness must usually be sacrificed.
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It encourages pithiness, using a violinist to start wailing if storytellers overstay their welcome.
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Their version of the 15th psalm is more to be esteemed for its pithiness than its poetry.
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It is a startlingly unusual background for a fashion-week darling and one which Gvasalia relates with matter-of-fact pithiness.
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Not so: its very audacity and pithiness are intended to make us look close at the phrase and remember it.
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That pleased her; the British laconicism; the sensible simplicity of the thing!
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"If I don't get to liking 'em, I don't care what happens to em," Bill answered with his father's own laconicism.
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At least two new sequences are launched with admirable concision and efficiency.
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Set against Trump's word salads, she sounded like a model of concision.
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Beware of dogs: beware of evil workers: beware of the concision.
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His propensity to concision or condensation was a peculiar trait in his mind.
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For concision, picturesqueness and concreteness, this narrative is not excelled in all literature.
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The brevity of texting and status updating teaches young people to deploy haiku-like concision.
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Are film-makers now once again losing the art of concision?
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Rather, they have the concision and compression of well-made poems.
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They have something of the concision of the Preludes.
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Submissions may be edited for accuracy, clarity and concision.
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He said that people need clarity and concision in order to start the process of understanding.
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This shows you understand the value of concision.
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But without his usual concision this story drags.
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His recipes have the sort of edge and concision that you find in classic Hollywood scripts.
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Others adopted a minimalistic approach, writing pared-down, narrowly focused stories emulating the fierce concision of Raymond Carver.
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His TV work requires considerably more concision.