Sentence examples for succinct lines from inspiring English sources

"Pancakes and Fins, Roses and Pins Set him a grinning And see how he grins!' Edward Lear's succinct lines sum up the delight that pancakes bring.

In sixty tersely exquisite realist paintings and as many succinct lines of text, Lawrence compressed the epic sweep of the Great Migration into a cinematic saga.

Those in positions to hire these young people must not overlook veterans just because their resumes have only a few succinct lines describing their time spent as guardians of our lives.

So are the structures: two- or three-minute songs with a big girl-group beat, a few chords, succinct melody lines and room for vocal-harmony oohs and ahs.

And Devereux ended their work together with the succinct line, "We had a good talk tonight".

When Mr. Bush finally spoke, he distilled his approach into a succinct line.

But he can also whip out a sharp, succinct line: learning that his wife wants to spend £500 on a clutch bag, he responds, incredulous: "For £500, I could hire a person to walk behind you carrying your lipstick!" Of the designer dress she covets, he says: "No one should spend that much money on something you can't drive".

Kruger is especially good with succinct, deadpan lines.

Succinct, memorable lines that served her well, summing up a successful performance.

The construction, the comic timing, the sly understatement that demands instant rereading — all come together in lines succinct enough for a text message.

Here it is, along with captions that he wrote for a younger relative: thirteen typed lines, as succinct a story of 1915 as can be told.