Sentence examples for laconic speaking from inspiring English sources
Greg de Moore summarised Wills' letters from this period: The language of extremes exhibited in Wills' writing reflected his laconic speaking manner.
"Franco's a hustler, he likes to gamble and take chances, and that really isn't me," said Mr. Hill, whose acting masks his laconic speaking pace.
He's a witty individual, of course, but his laconic speaking style also works surprisingly well with light exercise (I say "light", though I did hurt my side during a stretch).
As the ultimate rebel, Burroughs was the god of rock gods from Patti Smith to Kurt Cobain, and his bitterly laconic spoken-word recordings are worth a listen.
The work's laconic eloquence speaks of an era and a nation.
In person, he is warm and laconic, and speaks through a smile that tends to camouflage the searing edge of his comments.
Joselito's owner, José Gómez, on first impression a laconic man, spoke long and fervently about the 100-year-old empire founded by his great-grandfather.
Another of Mr. Kagel's works, "Furst Igor, Stravinsky" (1982), memorializes Stravinsky by way of a laconic, almost spoken resetting of an aria from Borodin's "Prince Igor". And his "Etudes for Large Orchestra" (1992-96) -- the final works played at the festival, on Monday evening -- traded in big gestures and strange combinations: a slow tuba melody, for example, overlaid with a flurry of flutes.
Not only did this usually laconic figure speak eloquently about how music had given him a burning will to live and how he felt his approach had now deepened; the players he gathered around him raised the whole notion of orchestral solidarity, at a time when the structure was coming under question, to a whole new level.
"We just felt this is where God wanted us to be," said Mr. Schrock, a tall man of 60 with a white Lincolnesque beard and a laconic manner of speaking.
He has a laconic, understated way of speaking, as though he were trying to downplay the outrage and the hilarity that animate his prose.
