Meanwhile, Latin Wikipedia has 94,000 articles.Latin's succinctness makes it ideal for Twitter's 140-character epigraphs and aphorisms.
Both languages feature prominently here, often mixing in conversation for convenience and succinctness.
It wasn't the felicity of adjectives that was relished, more the aptness and succinctness and usually slightly elegant cruelty of the remarks.Your father, who died five years ago, is evoked very vividly in this new collection and yet you seem to be circling his memory somewhat warily.
Joseph Furphy, resisting the call for succinctness, wrote a large complex novel, Such Is Life (1903), describing the rural world of the 1880s.
FitzGerald's ingenious and felicitous paraphrasing gave his translations a memorable verve and succinctness.
The citation could not be bettered for accurate succinctness: "His work is characterised by elegant experiments, skilful analysis and insightful explanation of observed phenomena".
But living as we do in an age where everyone is a critic and can prove it with wit, intergrity and succinctness on Twitter, I can't help but think I'd prefer a prize which valued the lauding of an obscure or overlooked work – uninfluenced by shared agents, publishers or beds – instead of more snark, and more publicity for household names.
Dylan's memoir, "Chronicles," has a succinctness and a complexity of thought and narrative that is the result of literary technique, of compression, of placement and juxtaposition, and of shrewd and penetrating judgments.
Brevity and succinctness force creators to think more rigorously about the story, trimming away unnecessary adornments and placing greater emphasis on the game's mechanics.
When you want to learn,… This month, in the Times's On Language Column, Ben Zimmer, looking at students at the University of North Carolina, pointed out that the slang today… We have always prized succinctness and brevity.
And the New York Post hit the streets with cruel tabloid succinctness: a picture of the home-state senator over a single word — "TOAST!" — in block letters three inches high.
