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Note: this interview has been edited for concision and clarity.
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These interviews have been edited and condensed for concision and clarity.
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This interview has been edited and condensed for concision and clarity.
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Try getting consistent concision like that on a warm, inviting stage!
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Good storytelling requires empathy, of course, but it also requires concision.
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Mr. Morris, a guitarist, plays with bladelike concision and slippery counterintuition.
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Alkayat narrates with succulent concision, but her affectionate admiration for Woolf shows.
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Like his tweets, his policy statements have the brutal concision of jokes.
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I find the concision part fun, like doing a cryptic crossword puzzle.
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"Feedback" and "FML" tap into the caustic sound and industrial concision of Yeezus.
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Emoji have enriched digital communications by helping us better express ourselves with concision.
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And that's a big problem in a medium that often thrives on concision.
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The film's concision, disinterest, and speed prefigure the form of the viral video.
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The dialogue throughout these guided tours has the flow and concision of good theater.
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But Mr. Koons is a master of concision and subtlety compared with Studio Job.
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Before long, the brand had established itself with the values of restraint and concision.
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Twenty-five minutes long, it has the sweep of Mahler but the concision of poetry.
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His matter-of-factness is striking — it sounds like the product of concision, not uncertainty.
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"When a fact is plausible, we still need to test it," Konnikova writes with characteristic concision.
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Non sequiturs spin off in various directions; phrasings of inspired concision telescope with prolix, prosier ones.
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Listening to Trump speak is a dizzying experience for anyone interested in candor, clarity or concision.
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"The Last Bluff" follows the twists and turns of the story with admirable clarity and concision.
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"Vine and Instagram and Twitter taught her concision and what resonates with an audience," Zoladz pointed out.
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He cuts, often drastically — concision is key here — but also at times adds a character or scene.
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At that time, a certain kind of concision interested me—the ability to write short, funny things.
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Summerall's concision worked far better with the bombastic Madden than did Scully's "pull up a chair" storytelling.
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What remains firm is a lyricist's gift for concision, boiling down a thought to its comic essence.
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More immediately, it captured, in profound concision, the earliest stirrings of a male identity at war with itself.
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" Cage described his "Europeras" with similar concision: "For 200 years the Europeans have been sending us their operas.
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The stage gave him directness and an audience, the page — and his own intellect — a gift for concision.
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By 2012, when the Experiment released "Black Radio," its first full-length, he was angling hard toward concision.
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"I value clarity — an old-fashioned virtue — and concision," she told The San Francisco Book Review in 22005.
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Let's look at a terrific example of how concision in TV can yield better storytelling: HBO's recent miniseries Chernobyl.
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It's a thumping, wailing, low-fi piano-pounding stomp that recalls — with pop concision — indoctrination, beatings, disassociation and escape.
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He can cling to statistics as a kind of rhetorical security blanket, firing off numbers where concision would do.
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Still, they miniaturize the qualities found in Joy Williams's celebrated short stories: concision, jumped connections, singular details, brutal humor.
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But whoever designed it knew the concision was possible because we'd know the shorthand of an eternal racial dynamic.
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If it's the latter, then it could benefit from some concision—strike out a third and the point's still made.
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Mr. Kushner has dabbled in librettos, but operatic texts require concision — something you don't associate with his sweeping, capacious plays.
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This concision of storytelling is familiar when watching movies, but it can feel weird, and at times jarring, in a game.
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It takes pop structure and concision, electronic textures, and a vocal approach rooted in R&B, and stuffs them in a blender.
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Though it was written by an academic — for better or worse, Lynch's prose reads that way — its aims are currency and concision.
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He lacks anything like his subject's "impressive concision," but he does succeed in offering a vivid and detailed — and often harrowing — story.
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She notes throughout that concision has been her obsession since she was a child; she has always been preoccupied with cutting the fat.
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The most important skill he'd learned was concision: The first two Cars albums have an almost Motown-like sense of efficiency and purpose.
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The photography of Tommy Kha at LMAK Gallery has a similar concision and comedy in his rumination of the ways and means of consent.
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Defining the purpose of a corporation is no small task, the statement's concision notwithstanding, but its sunny words belie a rather less noble history.
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In all versions, the concision and openness of the accounts were essential: Somehow authoritative rather than vague, they allowed an exhilarating freedom of imagination.
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Instead of writing lyrics that were elliptical and ripe for analysis by their small group of devoted fans, they aimed for clarity and emotional concision.
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We value clarity and concision in our graphics (as in our prose) and are looking for someone who can communicate a story effectively through data graphics.
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But Mr. Engel writes with great concision — honed, no doubt, by years of having to compress momentous stories into a few minutes on the evening news.
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And even if Twitter does like the idea of the forced concision that the limit requires, it could have instituted this change a long time ago.
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At 36 minutes, the album is a paragon of concision; he's packed enough fury and invention to sustain a grandiose statement into a pathologically tight, controlled, restrained structure.
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It's an emotionally intense topic that Wang and Zhang address "with clarity, concision and strategically restrained outrage," Manohla Dargis wrote in her review for The New York Times.
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There's a happy blend of combustion and concision in the music of Zeitlin's longstanding piano trio, which features the fabled bassist Buster Williams and the drummer Matt Wilson.
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All that natural beauty does its part to draw you in, as do the tight introductions, which Philip narrates with concision over radiant images from his formative years.
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This is not the first transitional Weeknd album; "Kiss Land," which preceded "Beauty Behind the Madness," anticipated its pop explosion in scale but not in brightness or concision.
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It succeeds, but at times the "Nineteen-Eighty-Four" references feel a little too forced, and at two hours the film could benefit from the novelist's fondness for concision.
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Through an "evidence-based" reading and writing section of the test, he said, students are asked to edit for "precision and concision" using words and numbers across multiple disciplines.
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If "Midnight City" sounds a little dated now, it's only because so many other musicians have spent the last five years emulating its fusion of pop's concision and EDM's dynamics.
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Turshen's wild head of curls might suggest that her approach leans towards the untamed and spontaneous, but the truth seems to be that she values precision and concision as well.
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The word collides head-on with the stereotype of hooked rugs as a decorous medium — a contradiction that speaks with powerful concision to the changing cultural norms of the 1960s.
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Look in one direction, and you see complex thought compressed into 140 characters, high-resolution video and audio, the sharpening of the pop-song hook: a process of individuation, definition, concision.
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For the sake of concision, wider cinema movements and sociopolitical contexts are also mostly elided, getting at most marginal notes, or recaps of material previously seen in The Story of Film.
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Covering thousands of miles, many decades and an array of contrasting landscapes, the arrival that "Arrival" arrives at is no less than a "family geography" remarkable for its concision and depth.
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All are delivered with a wit and concision reminiscent of Lydia Davis and Diane Williams, a wry intelligence and keen irony that don't prevent Unferth's prose from offering deep emotional intimacy.
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I used to love a long, sprawling sentence full of imagery and detours to more imagery, and now I respond more to concision and precision and spare, efficient, stripped-down prose.
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When the module is finished or the pages complete, their quality is judged against many of the same standards: elegance, concision, cohesion; the discovery of symmetries where none were seen to exist.
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In other late stories, such as "Human Being," concision can serve as a shortcut to profundity, a way to avoid the hard work of imagining a narrative situation or an idiosyncratic character.
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The reference points were clear—Television, Wire, Devo—but it was more than just the post-punk aesthetic that dragged people there; there was a minimalism and a concision that pulled it together.
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For the sake of narrative speed and cinematic concision, it is compelled to jettison superfluous characters and an entire parallel story line: that of Gloucester, yet another father of wicked and favorable offspring.
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The next year he was elected president of Young Republicans in a campaign managed by Paul Manafort, convicted by Mr Mueller's team for felonies too numerous to list in a paper that prizes concision.
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Writing, when it's good, mirrors the elements of Serena's tennis: prose as startlingly rhythmic as her groundstrokes; an aerobic leap to an unexpected thought; snappy cadences like her net game; authoritative concision like her first serve.
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This week, that exploratory spirit continues with the next chapter in a two-season run of the complete works of Anton Webern, the revolutionary composer who imbued his mentor Arnold Schoenberg's atonal language with crystalline concision.
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" Cohn responded with another feat of concision: "George, when we look at the tax plan and we look [at] what it does for Americans, we are very confident that Americans are getting a good deal here.
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Again, fans already familiar with the characters, and with no interest in seeing their origins play out again, will likely be fine with the concision, and glad to just see these heroes engaging in epic onscreen adventures.
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In their own words, edited for clarity and concision, here is the story of a plot of land in Cupertino, California, that brought us the Mac revival, the iPod, iTunes, the iPhone, and the Steve Jobs legacy.
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Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter: Although those training sequences suffer from too much slicing and dicing, Jenkins captures Diana's progress from precocious 8-year-old (Lilly Aspell) to teen (Emily Carey) to young woman with admirable concision.
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Her 1967 breakthrough, after years of working in and out of gospel and jazz, was to bring pop concision and impact — "Think" runs just 2:20 — to songs that didn't confine her voice or constrain her pride.
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A little more than half a century after Richardson, she brought to the realist novel a discipline and a concision and an irony that enabled her to transform her own didactic impulses into the basis of art.
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This assemblage of down-and-out moments is delivered with a wit and concision reminiscent of Lydia Davis and Diane Williams, a wry intelligence and keen irony that don't prevent Unferth's prose from offering deep emotional intimacy.
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And yet another shift carried the evening to a more affirmative if somewhat quizzical conclusion, with Sibelius's last symphony, the single-movement No. 7, his ultimate effort in a long quest to express big thoughts with extreme concision.
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" Mr. Buckley especially admired the rhyming couplets that Ms. Provensen devised for each commander in chief in her countdown, calling them "wee masterpieces of concision that manage to boil down each president to a felicitous and memorable quiddity.
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From 1978 to 1988, Mr. Ocasek (pronounced oh-CASS-eck) and the Cars merged a vision of romance, danger and nocturnal intrigue and the concision of new wave music with the sonic depth and ingenuity of radio-friendly rock.
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The album's a success in that regard, flitting from pop to hip-hop to festival fare without a moment's hesitation, and yet I find myself yearning for Levitate's concision and perspective after spending an hour with Streten's near-future whizbangs.
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Mr. Gardiner's approach to the Fifth rebelled against its reputation, presenting the work not as a lofty drama of fate and triumph, but as a study in almost primal rhythmic obsession and economy, achieving even more powerful concision than the Fourth.
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But from his time with the band he affectionately calls "The Tonys" up through his solo career — four albums between 19923 and 2011, each more joyous, and consummately crafted than the last — he's always prioritized hooks and concision over self-expression.
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But from his time with the band he affectionately calls "The Tonys" up through his solo career — four albums between 19923 and 2011, each more joyous, and consummately crafted than the last — he's always prioritized hooks and concision over self-expression.
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In "Anonymous Intimacy," Mr. Temer's choice to occasionally err on the side of concision led Sensacionalista, a website that satirizes Brazil's political class, to question whether the author of some of the verses might actually be his 7-year-old son, Michelzinho.
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We know that, despite the unanimous concision of the intelligence community that Russia interfered in the 2016 election to help Trump and hurt Clinton, the President has repeatedly expressed skepticism -- including with Russian President Vladimir Putin standing next to him -- of that fact.
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The story gets its power, as Edmund Wilson once pointed out, from its concision — a hallmark of Kipling's writing from this period — and from the way it cleverly withholds important information, so that what's really going on only gradually dawns on the reader.
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That paper contains the following problem statement, which is worth repeating for its concision: So, while it's possible to achieve and even outpace Moore's Law by stacking transistors, the fundamental challenge remains of how to do that without incinerating your integrated circuits in the process.
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But the miniseries' episodic structure also marks it, irretrievably, as TV. I agree with those who praise the show for its concision on a key point: Chernobyl is very, very good, and its short runtime of just over five hours total is one reason why.
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When we decide to publish a Money Diary, it goes through an editing process where it is formatted and edited for concision, clarity, and grammar, and to see if it adheres to Refinery29's editorial standards (how people talk about food and body image, for example).
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The rise of the hungry hawk in popular culture is likely attributable to its panic-inducing concision: a few words capture an otherwise difficult-to-summarize fear that a surrogate of nature will swoop into our controlled suburban spaces and turn our domesticated housemates into feral snacks.
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Still, after enjoying a peak that stretched from 2002's breakthrough Reveille to 2008's Offend Maggie, the band has settled into their version of middle age with a surprising amount of concision and focus, and The Magic throws more curveballs than any other album they've released this decade.
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With brisk, fluid concision, the film jumps to countries fast-tracking solar energy production: Germany and China, which is "now the leading country in terms of how fast they are implementing sustainable technology at really large scale," according to Peggy Liu, chairwoman of the nonprofit Joint U.S.-China Collaboration on Clean Energy.
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But despite this concision, studies show that interval workouts can improve aerobic fitness, blood sugar control, blood pressure and other measures of health and fitness to the same or a greater extent than standard endurance training, such as brisk walking or jogging, even if it lasts two or three times as long.
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The nine-member ensemble presents itself not as earnest traditionalists, but as a giddy show band with all the trappings of K-pop — choreographed singers, candy-colored costumes and bouncy, upbeat, often swinging songs that link the concision of folk tunes to the catchy repetition of pop, with brash cymbals for drive and flute and zither lines for instrumental hooks.
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" This is a form of spare concision that can have its own kind of power, and Ferry — an accomplished poet in his own right, who ran Wellesley's English department for many years and who won the National Book Award in 2012, when he was in his late 80s — is fond of it in his other work too, as in the poem "Ancestral Lines": "…telling me who / They were and who it was they weren't.
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They're porous, riven with gaps and fragmentation; at the same time, they're unquestionably "lyrical" in their concision and fluidity — to say nothing of the formal vigilance with which Kahn transforms couplets into tercets, constructing sometimes larger and sometimes more miniscule stanzaic units: When it is so hot I lie on the floor When I think of what i have to give Life has it's good points And the fat, white thigh-bones of a tourist ("Women in Public") The way meaning gathers here in an accretive way, which uses both the isolating space of the poetic line and the capitalized "And" to connect and dissociate the semantic content of each line, is typical of Kahn's style, and resonates throughout the collection.
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