• In common usage and linguistics, concision (also called conciseness, succinctness, terseness, brevity, or laconicism) is a communication principle of...
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  • In media studies, concision is a form of broadcast media censorship by limiting debate and discussion of important topics on the rationale of time allotment...
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  • standard of rigor is much higher than elsewhere. Despite mathematics' concision, rigorous proofs can require hundreds of pages to express, such as the...
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  • disapprove of the word "concision" on the grounds that it had a technical meaning in theology, "to which it may well be left"; but "concision" is now a common...
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    contained in the Quran consisted of tashbīh, istiʿāra, taǧānus, mubālaġa, concision, clarity of speech (bayān), and talāʾum. He also added other features...
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    truths of cult and morals"; it defines the unity of God with an "admirable concision". Pastoret writes that the common accusations of his immorality are unfounded:...
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    Chronicle as having the "heavy sadness of Townes Van Zandt, the light pop concision of Buddy Holly, the tuneful jangle of the Beatles, the raw energy of the...
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    his abilities, according to the art critic Robert Hughes, "longing for concision and grace". After the birth of his nephew, Van Gogh wrote, "I started...
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  • results (scientific laws, theorems, proofs, logical deductions, etc.) with concision, precision and unambiguity. The main features of the mathematical language...
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    trying to shape myself into a writer. I admired Waits’s lyrical vision and concision – the man was a born storyteller, stopping travellers who had wandered...
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  • 2006 and modifying the review format and style for improved readability, concision, accuracy, and impact. Kirkus Reviews was sold to The New York Review...
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    writing giving prime consideration to quality of writing, originality and concision, using any available journalistic tool. Commentary – for distinguished...
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    on Stack Overflow for correctness, consistency, comprehensiveness, and concision, and found that 52% of them contained inaccuracies and 77% were verbose...
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    delay Cancel culture Censor bars Chilling effect Collateral censorship Concision Conspiracy of silence Content-control software Damnatio memoriae De-banking...
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  • elliptical planform characterised by ellipsis (the omission of words), or by concision more broadly elliptical trainer, an exercise machine Ellipse (disambiguation)...
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    "tooth and claw" style of literary criticism. Twain places emphasis on concision, utility of word choice, and realism; he complains, for example, that...
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  • primitives concisely express broad ideas about data manipulation. The level of concision can be dramatic in certain cases: it is not uncommon[example needed] to...
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  • collection of papal biographies. The historian Jean Durliat stated that "[t]he concision of his biography may be interpreted as the result of aversion to him on...
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  • making any decision is KISS (Keep it Simple, Stupid). BLUF (communication) Concision Elegance The Fox and the Cat (fable) It's the economy, stupid Mini survival...
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    fallacies, and other inanities requires measured drollery and surgical concision. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Levine attended the University of Missouri...
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  • Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Wikiquote has quotations related to Subtext. Concision – Writing principle of eliminating redundancy Connotation – Cultural or...
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    Romantic music, somewhat related to that of the Second Viennese School in concision but diverging greatly in technique. Though he had several bursts of extraordinary...
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    unfired rifles tie into the play's theme of lacking or incomplete action. Concision – the principle of brevity in writing Foreshadowing – a plot device where...
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  • Contest, to find "the opening sentence to the worst of all possible novels" Concision, a communication principle of eliminating redundancy Description, one...
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  • cementitious, cementum, cespitose, chisel, circumcise, circumcision, concise, concision, decidability, decidable, decide, decision, decisive, deciso, excide,...
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    delay Cancel culture Censor bars Chilling effect Collateral censorship Concision Conspiracy of silence Content-control software Damnatio memoriae De-banking...
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  • distinguished from tautology and understatement. Brevitas is related to concision, parataxis, sprezzatura and elliptic style. It contrasts with periphrasis...
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    language and psychological insight, creating a "poetry of ideas" with the concision of mathematical formulas. The book explores virtually every major issue...
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