Sentence examples for Laconic style from inspiring English sources

In the debates, he was notable for an extremely laconic style.

Here Ms. Akerman's determinedly laconic style conveys little of what she is thinking or feeling.

Carver's laconic style, Schulze told an interviewer, precludes German Democratic Republic-style "bathos".

Tales of underwater adventure are woven together by his engaging narration in typical laconic style, and cut through the music.

Coleman kept up this laconic style throughout, and was much missed when his role was downgraded for the fifth series.

Hemingway claimed that development of his laconic style was based on "cablese" -- the necessary shortening of news dispatches to limit expensive telegram costs.

Read's always-laconic style has, meanwhile, reached a whole new level: cool, detached, plumbing well-nigh fathomless depths of irony while never quite disguising the layers of feeling that lie beneath.

Its title, the language of routine communiqués, is typical of its cool, terse style, which records the daily horrors of war in laconic understatement.

"And I said, 'You know, I think I'm starting to feel the same way.' " He proposed last year, in laconic cowboy style, as she was leaving for her high school reunion in Lewistown.

His laconic coaching style allows for input from Kim's mother.

Tomb inscriptions generally are the most numerous of all but tend to be laconic in style and lacking even in purely statistical data.