Examples of laconic

• Not very, would be the laconic reply for the majority of the population and, comparatively, the grass has become no more verdant since.

• In general the older the contract, the more laconic were the specifications.

• He considers the point as the most laconic, ephemeral form, which is characterised by excessive immobility.

• This is too laconic without a great deal more unpacking and exemplification.

• However, a closer look reveals that this seemingly self-confident fourth is in fact a 'snail': the expression of the poem's underlying idea by a single, laconic symbol.

• The voices of the poor are not easy to hear, although occasionally their presence can be felt behind the rather laconic entries in overseers' accounts or vestry records.

• Perhaps this is the calm of the asylum (the laconic programme note isn't giving much away): certainly the piece has a fascinating air of eccentric studiousness.

• I regret to say that there is no feeling of laconic reticence in those who arc about to die.

• He is normally laconic and detached, but today he was reduced to a low monotone, dropping to a mumble on occasions.

• I recall that he replied in a somewhat laconic way, that there were no current proposals to follow that road.

• The notes on clauses are more than usually laconic in their observations.

• It took the form of a gruff and laconic telephone call, appropriate for the person issuing the invitation.

• Some of the force of the drama diminished in the face of those laconic remarks.

• Those rather laconic words probably cover up a good deal of disagreement among board members in that new town and in other new towns.

• What was the rather laconic reference to the end-of-season distillation of wine in the statement?