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To some extent, this is where the purity vs. succinctness debate comes into play.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 24, 2022

Here, then, are 66 of my favorite books, in no particular order, each described with telegraphic succinctness.

From Washington Post • Jan. 11, 2022

It may seem obvious, and it’s certainly been said before, but I like the succinctness there.

From Slate • Apr. 15, 2020

Dismissing St Thomas Aquinas with his customary succinctness, Bertrand Russell said there was “little of the true philosophic spirit” in the Catholic church’s greatest philosopher.

From The Guardian • Jun. 20, 2015

In verse he showed the dawn, and in prose the noon-day, of a combination of veracity and vigour, of succinctness and strength, which no Frenchman who made his début since 1870 could surpass.

From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by Saintsbury, George