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Tag Name "Laconic" (10)

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The proponents of Steinitz' theory - Tarrasch and his supporters - tried to express Steinitz' teaching in the form of laconic rules, and as often happens in such cases, they went too far. The laconic tended to become dogmatic, and chess began to lose its freshness, originality and charm.
Alexander Kotov
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You can get far in North America with laconic grunts. Huh, hun, and hi! in their various modulations, together with sure, guess so, that so? and nuts! will meet almost any contingency.
Ian Fleming
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Mathematicians are a bit like the laconic Vermonter who, when asked if he's lived in the state his whole life, replies, Not yet.
John Allen Paulos
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As someone who writes novels that are often set in other periods of time or other ages or other landscapes, there's a certain element of research I have to do, and often, the more laconic people are, the more interesting they become.
Michael Ondaatje
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I love the laconic. Clearly, I am not of their number.
Renata Adler
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I love the English language just like I love all American things. But I confess that I don't feel confident using complex sentences or big words, hence my famous minimally expressive style - all the gees and laconic answers to interviewers. Most of all, I have developed listening as an art form.
Andy Warhol
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Historians, only things of weight, Results of persons, or affairs of State, Briefly, with truth and clearness should relate Laconic shortness memory feeds.
James R. Heath
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Those of you who have spent time with Australians know that we are not given to overstatement. By nature we are laconic speakers and by conviction we are realistic thinkers.
Julia Gillard
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The writing in mathematics text is not only laconic to a fault it is cold, monotonous, dry, dull, and even ungrammatical... The books are not only printed by machines they are written by machines.
Morris Kline
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I must have read every issue of 'Punch' published in the 20th century, and I think in the process I picked up the true voice of English humour - that amiable, fairly liberal, laconic voice which you find in something like 'Three Men in a Boat.'
Terry Pratchett