The film's Spanish title bears tribute to the Argentine brothers at Entre Ríos, who scrape a living from running a river ferry but are calmly at one with the nature that surrounds them and whose delightfully amusing, succinct conversations and speculations on that great wide world they will never see act as a narrative thread linking these serendipitously discovered places.
The Call is a welcome little late summer treat, a juiced-up B-movie kidnap thriller from regular Fringe director Brad Anderson, admirably succinct at 87 minutes, constructed around the conversations between an abducted girl (Abigail Breslin) and the responder (Halle Berry), who picks up when the girl calls 911 from the trunk of the kidnapper's car.
By extension the term is also applied to any striking sentence in a novel, play, poem, or conversation that appears to express a succinct truth, usually in the form of a generalization.
Muti, in conversation with the Chicago critic Andrew Patner, came up with a succinct formulation: "If you kill the culture, you kill the country".
This is the essential issue in psychotherapy (definition: conversation directed at change) and is expressed in a more succinct question with which I confront patients: What's next?
In a recent interview with The Guardian's Simon Hattenstone, Herrera recalled a particular conversation with avant-garde gallery owner Rose Fried, who gave a succinct and wholly infuriating explanation for why, despite her abundant talent, Herrera couldn't land herself a show. .
The advertisement does a succinct job in laying out its central point, which is that the conversation of EFCA has thus far been dominated by big business, which has tirelessly and falsely contended that EFCA would deny workers the right to unionize via a secret ballot.
First there was a calmly marshalled conversation between Morrison and Hermione Lee, which was interesting without being inspirational, and a smattering of mercifully succinct audience questions.
Giving lots of details, talking about how we feel about a situation, trying to involve everyone in the conversation does not always lead to actions that produce results as effectively as being more direct and succinct in our speech, because people are busy, their minds are already filled with information.
His formulations were succinct.
Ferguson was more succinct.
