It's fine to tell someone you went to the doctors, if they ask why, just give a honest but concise answer e.g. I went for an injection, had some tests, check-up, but you don't need to tell the whole details.
The story of "Pearl" is simple, and the poem is, by late medieval standards, concise: just twelve hundred and twelve lines.
"We have nothing, and we are nobodies," she concluded, with the others nodding in agreement as if they had just heard a concise rendering of perfect truth.
It's a concise album, just 35 minutes, but its ethereality makes the time drift slowly: the percussive plink of a piano (or something like it), about 24 minutes in, registers as a decisive event.
Britannica Concise has just 25,000 articles, compared with the print version's roughly 65,000 articles.
Much as I respect the Daily Mail commenter who captioned it "the prime minister, and the ideal prime minister", let's just slap a more concise tag on it: Worstival.
He concluded his review, "Hopefully, next week the story will be just a little more concise, Olivia and Peter back working together and maybe at some point Astrid will actually have something important to do".
But its more concise, polished and song-oriented follow-up, "Sumday" (V2), does ache just as beautifully.
She's written a sweeping yet concise history not just of the Black Lives Matter movement, but of the past seven years under the first black president and of how the 20th century led to our current state of woke uprising.
"I just try to be clear, concise and correct," Sheppard said.
