Sentence examples for laconic replies from inspiring English sources

John Wayne spoke fluent Turkish back then, Clint Eastwood uttered his laconic replies in an Istanbul dialect.

"Nine to four," was the laconic reply.

"Doesn't matter," is the laconic reply, and you know he means it.

"Because the other side got more votes," was his laconic reply.

He makes the call and the laconic reply comes back: "But I'm as fat as fuck".

According to Diodorus, Alexander's companions asked him on his deathbed to whom he bequeathed his kingdom; his laconic reply was "tôi kratistôi"—"to the strongest".

Extraordinary that Goodhart [was] told his views on migration unacceptable for debate". The Guardian's enquiries about Goodhart's absence from Hay met with the laconic, emailed reply from Florence: "He was never invited.

But Lubitz's replies became "laconic" as they started readying what would have been the normal descent to the German airport.

Asked who they might be, Floca's laconic hero gives a reply worthy of Indiana Jones: " 'Bandits, most likely,' Andrews said.

The "real challenge to democracy" was that its moral principles "are determined by nothing more solid than social consensus … By appeal to what authority can moral dilemmas be resolved?" Had Winston Churchill been there, he might have replied with his laconic dictum that "democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time".

The calm, laconic nature of the response captured Hazard perfectly.