- A
laconic phrase or
laconism is a
concise or
terse statement,
especially a
blunt and
elliptical rejoinder. It is
named after Laconia, the
region of Greece...
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Laconic speech may mean:
alogia - a
thought impoverishment observable through speech and
language use
laconic phrase - a
concise or
terse statement, especially...
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absurdity of the
subject matter. The
delivery is
meant to be blunt, ironic,
laconic, or
apparently unintentional. The term
deadpan first emerged early in the...
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Peloponnese peninsula. Its
administrative capital is Sparta. The word
laconic—to
speak in a blunt,
concise way—is
derived from the name of this region...
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companions asked him on his
deathbed to whom he
bequeathed his kingdom; his
laconic reply was "tôi kratistôi"—"to the strongest".
Another theory is that his...
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during the two-word
stage of
language acquisition in children,
which is
laconic and efficient. It
follows the
Holophrastic speech stage of
language acquisition...
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drawled lyrics—which
often use
melodic rhyming, repetition, word play,
laconic phrases,
syncopation and alliteration—his
music often addresses the lifestyle...
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Mitchum his
favorite movie star and the soul of film noir: "With his deep,
laconic voice and his long face and
those famous weary eyes, he was the kind of...
- from Stills'.
Waiting at
their next stop in Atlanta,
Stills received a
laconic telegram: "Dear Stephen,
Funny how
things that
start spontaneously end...
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Danson starred in the HBO
sitcom Bored to
Death as
George Christopher, the
laconic and
sometime downright infantile editor of
Edition magazine.
Critics often...
