| For concision, picturesqueness and concreteness, this narrative is not excelled in all literature. |
| That is a pity, as the wit, clarity and concision of his earlier chapters on Europe, America and jihadism are bracing. |
| His fiction aspired to, and often achieved, a Chekhovian mixture of comic concision and pathos. |
| They all wrote well: Mill simply, Russell entertainingly, Ayer with sparkling concision. |
| The shortest of the books under review, it has the merits of concision, clarity, and simplicity. |
| Again and again in the exhibition, one feels that Conner not only got there first but did so with welcome concision, intensity and forthrightness. |
