Sentence examples for succinct form from inspiring English sources

"In its most succinct form, it's about a failed revolution," she said.

Ms. Petersen compiles this data in anecdotal style, even though they would have hit harder in more crystallized, succinct form.

And this took a particularly succinct form in his contribution to the 1993 Venice Biennale: a single empty cardboard shoebox left on a gallery floor.

In this case the paper on al-Qaida is most probably a think piece, light on intelligence, expressing in a succinct form the views of the UK and its allies hammered out in weeks of discussion in Whitehall.

"Most editors, especially sports editors, are word people who don't see the sports cartoon as a succinct form of journalism and a different way of covering sports," said Tornoe, 34, whose sports cartoons appear in The Philadelphia Inquirer but who also draws editorial cartoons for various outlets.

The limited content you can put into Twitter forces people to put their thoughts into a really succinct form.

Each book is numbered and described in entries that are essayistic yet succinct, a form Genis attributes to the uncertain supply of writing paper in prison.

For some cricket fans, Stanford's support, and, in particular, his promotion of a succinct, modern form of the game known as Twenty20, is about the only thing that still redeems him.

Lennox succeeds in distilling the elegiac chants of his early material into succinct, easily digestible forms.

(Websites such as Write to Them now let you email your MP directly. But avoid form letters. Succinct, personalised letters have more impact, says Hunt).

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.