Sentences with phrase «laconic style»

Accepting the trophy in typically laconic style, he cheerfully recognised his entire career has largely been a been based upon the one - hit wonder Crocodile Dundee and its sequels, but as he pointed out to the roar of the audience, «It was a mighty hit.»

The laconic style of the dress perfectly matches with a complex mix of lace and animal print.

Like biblical Hebrew, Atwood's witty prose is thick with double entendre and allusion, including hidden puns whose meanings dawn on us only later, and outrageous jokes that don't so much dawn as «bomb» (one of the book's metaphors and an effect of Atwood's powerfully laconic style)

Young's achievements were paired with a laconic style and a heartbeat that barely jumped after liftoff.

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This subject generates a lively discussion, and draws several comments, offered in a distinctive verbal style that manages to be laconic, forceful, and a bit playful all at once, from a heretofore mostly silent participant.

A return to Kenneth Wolstenholme's laconic and frugal commentary style and ditching the co-commentator would suit me just fine.

The storytelling is classic Soderbergh, lean and laconic, a style that heightens both the bone - dry humor with which the film is suffused and the suspense of the split - second timing required for the heist and the ancillary, ahem, compost, that happens.

We're introduced to Tom Cruise's Nick Morton, a laconic military officer / Three Kings - style plunderer, along with his loudmouth partner - in - crime Chris Vail (Jake Johnson), as they blunder their way through a terrorist - occupied city in Mesopotamia.

Lucky's desert shack, style of dress and laconic affect all scream «cowboy,» and he is indeed a rugged individualist, albeit one whom advanced age has reduced to a fairly simple circuit of activities.

Laconic humour is a central theme of our writing style, attempting to put the wine in context rather than churning out mind numbing descriptions of wine.

Prince's signature laconic writing style is represented by autobiography, fiction, observations and confessions.

Campins» works, laconic in style, are similar to those of Polish artist Joseph Schulz, whose Form 14 (archetypal of Schulz's style) exhibits architecture without detail.