A concise, penetrating examination of the construction of an entirely new Japan after Perry's visit in 1853; in the headlong course of making itself modern, Japan borrowed many authoritarian, even fascist, habits of thought, many of them left in place after 1945.
Pankaj Mishra's article was a concise and accurate examination of the Kashmir crisis (Why silence over Kashmir speaks volumes, 14 August).
His 1949 book, "The Problem Drinker," was praised in a New York Times review as "a forthright, concise and helpful examination of an insidious scourge".
Even before its release this month, "The Gatekeepers" was buzzing with critical acclaim and won an Oscar nomination for its concise and unflinching examination of 45 years of Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
This book is clearly not intended for the trainee trying to pass their postgraduate examinations; they need a book that gives clear and concise information regarding what a drug will be expected to do in the normal patient.
There is a need for a concise, constructive, jargon- and acronym-free, nontechnical, unsensational, light-on-anecdote, analytical examination of the major facets of the biggest U.S. economic disaster in my lifetime and that of most people living today.
His book is an attempt to write "a concise, constructive, jargon- and acronym-free, non-technical, unsensational, light-on-anecdote, analytical examination of the major facets of the biggest U.S. economic disaster in my lifetime and that of most people living today".
Elegant, beautiful, concise.
Concise, but slightly incomplete.
Clear, concise and simple.
