“The principal hallmarks of Echenoz's style are his laconism, his dry wit, and the precision with which he chooses words and images.”

“Terence Morgan's Drake, endowed from the start with an uncanny self-confidence, struck exactly the right balance between poker-faced laconism and Errol Flynn-like exuberance.”

“This laconism came from the lips of a young man who was walking along the Levee of New Orleans.”

“His peculiar mix of laconicism and loquaciousness means that when he talks you tend to listen closely.”

“This piece seems out of the folk art tradition but it is modern in its laconicism.”

“The movie was set in Maine, and it pumped every cliché of down-easter laconicism, stoicism and eccentricity.”