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Перевод: laconic

[прилагательное]
лаконичный; краткий; немногословный

Тезаурус:

1. Here we have a dry, laconic and completely unsentimental style that spawned hundreds of imitations.
2. There is nothing in the later history of this laconic diarist (who was my maternal grandmother) that would suggest that she was other than a normal "teenager" of her time.
3. Time magazine still regarded him as a bit of an upstart, stating that his attempts at humour made him look like a third Smothers Brothers, and his laconic manner appeared to be a handy substitute for acting.
4. Conversation thus tended to be laconic and allusive and it sometimes scarcely seemed to possess a thread of connection between one remark and the next: this was however an illusion, seductive enough to a stranger ignorant of background, all the more so to a stranger not fully in command of the language.
5. In the church of the new literary criticism, he has also prayed and mocked, publishing critical books of his own but satirising the gurus of metafictional inquiry in his novels: Nice Work's laconic demolition of Lacan has survived to reach the BBC.
6. She strove to keep her amazement and joy out of her voice, to be as laconic as he was also struggling to be.
7. He was formidable, laconic, self-disciplined, earnest but not humourless, and it was said of him that he did everything with a kind of good-natured fury.
8. "We made a major assault on German agriculture" was the laconic comment of J K Galbraith on the notorious inability of bomber crews to drop their loads anywhere near their urban target.
9. I ONCE asked Ross Clarke-Jones - a laconic Australian who was on the Tour but also liked to surf big Waimea - which would be his ultimate experience: a big wave or a tube?
10. His detailed reports to his master are a hideous record of fire and bloodshed, chronicled in the most factual and laconic manner.
11. The popular image of him as a laconic, amiable figure is not entirely accurate.
12. His laconic comment was "Nearly got that one," while the petrified Kington giggled nervously.
13. As Robert Myers, Grumman's laconic president, says now: "I guess that sale wasn't too good a move from the State Department's standpoint."