And who could dispute that the phrase "evil empire" was actually a rather succinct summary of the facts rather than florid hyperbole?
But overcoming my snobbish, knee-jerk aversion to illustrated diaries of the "misfit" kind has allowed me to appreciate their succinct wit – and the fact that they remain the height of keelness among kids for whom reading can often be anything but.
It was in fact as succinct a definition as one might get of the democratic vision that fueled his music, a vision that denied distinctions of race, of class, of category, that embraced every kind of music equally, from the highest up to the lowest down.
A new book by Loretta Napoleoni, The Islamist Phoenix: The Islamic State and the Redrawing of the Middle East, focuses on the above in a micro- and macro-level detail within its matter-of-fact and succinct 160 pages.
Inquest is in fact the best succinct description of "Interesting Times", a ruthlessly honest self-investigative book in which this eminent Marxist historian, born in the year of the October revolution of 1917, tries his best to understand and to explain why he is "a lifelong communist".The gentle mockery in the "lifelong" label is deliberate.
The succinct representation relies on the fact that the location of the slot where a key x (in this case, a k-mer) is stored contains some of the information present in the key.
Beckett's bluntness — his succinct, Texas-tough articulation of the fact that he is not our friend — might be terrible P.R., but it also may be the first good thing that has happened to the Sox all month.
In fact, the text is succinct and pithy enough (not to mention inexpensive at $18.95!) to distribute as part of faculty professional development efforts, which is what we plan to do.
The Times, however, still feels compelled to prepare tomorrow's Page 1, while facing the consequences of potentially getting the facts wrong, and proffering a succinct analysis of the story.
Make the message succinct and not a whole diatribe of facts and events about your daughter in school, or her daddy not being home etc. Speak academics only and very pithy.
Roman Ondak's transformation of the Czech/Slovak pavilion into a walk-through continuation of the Giardini's gravel path with shrub planting to either side is the most succinct, humorous and thoughtful expression of this fact.
