How to Use concision in a Sentence

concision

noun

• Yet, for all of their tightness and concision, their sound can feel all over the place, too.
  — Chris Richards, Washington Post, 20 Feb. 2023
• The sub-90-minute run time isn’t an emblem of concision; the movie simply ends too soon.
  — Glenn Kenny, New York Times, 7 May 2020
• But the concision of Swift’s songcraft and the nuances of her phrasing should keep the listener tuned in.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 21 Oct. 2022
• Now, as in the 1960s, Starr’s drumming remains a marvel of taste and concision.
  — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 May 2023
• The slowed reading and the clean prose creates a feeling of brevity and concision, much as produced by a poem.
  — David Dobbs, WIRED, 9 Apr. 2012
• Their songs were rich in invention yet also marvels of concision; the 12-song album clocks in at just a smidgen more than 30 minutes.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Jan. 2023
• The poem is that lightest and least likely of triumphs: a masterpiece of concision.
  — Brad Leithauser, WSJ, 11 Feb. 2022
• But their concision served to heighten the impact of the songs, and Fike’s fusion of punk-rock velocity, high-octane rapping and pop songcraft.
  — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 May 2024
• And those on the wrong side of middle age will appreciate the freshness, warmth and concision of the show, as well as the wisdom of the message, which is about the ability of kids to work through their problems.
  — Chicago Tribune, chicagotribune.com, 15 Dec. 2017
• Your work tends toward concision, yet a big part of the pleasure in this cover is the accumulation of details.
  — Françoise Mouly, The New Yorker, 30 Nov. 2020
• The song’s concision is almost as devastating as its sang-froid.
  — Chris Richards, Washington Post, 27 Sep. 2022
• The rest of the poem is a masterpiece of guilelessness, comedy and concision.
  — Washington Post, 15 Dec. 2021
• Whereas the Brahms concerto is a paragon of concision, Schmidt’s symphony is a study in verbosity.
  — Dallas News, 21 Jan. 2022
• Perhaps the one thing Scott didn’t borrow from his predecessors was their concision.
  — Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 26 Feb. 2022
• But there’s a bit too much dross amid what works — a sign of the times in terms of series orders being bulked out beyond what the story can sustain, and a reminder that, as a writer, Rice was not known for the gift of concision.
  — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 3 Jan. 2023
• The film is less than a hour and a half long, yet the Tavianis make every minute count; this has the concision and intensity one associates with late masterworks.
  — Chicago Reader, 7 Mar. 2018
• Read on for Fortune’s interview with Girouard, which has been edited for clarity and concision.
  — Robert Hackett, Fortune, 18 Dec. 2020
• Her slippery prose makes David Berlinski seem the model of precise sincere clear concision.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 12 July 2013
• The melancholia that courses through this movie is of a piece with its minimalism, notable in the concision of the individual scenes and the overall running time.
  — Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 30 Apr. 2021
• Martine Reid’s life of Sand is a miracle of concision and evenhandedness.
  — Benita Eisler, WSJ, 8 June 2018
• Each production admirably attempts to confer artistic concision and order on a big and complex topic, but the effect in each case is a muted, mixed bag.
  — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 14 Oct. 2022
• One just hopes that ego doesn’t displace analytical concision, as bright as Silver may be.
  — The Hive, 20 Jan. 2017
• Our interview with him has been edited for concision and clarity.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 15 Apr. 2024
• Some comments have been edited for clarity and concision.
  — Steven Litt, cleveland, 14 Jan. 2022
• The intimacy carries over to the small-combo songs, jewels of melody and concision brimming with emotional gut punches.
  — Greg Kot, chicagotribune.com, 26 June 2019
• With commendable concision and insight, the film sympathetically reveals the challenges they each face on the home front.
  — Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Nov. 2017
• In these cases, a translator can try to capture more of the significance with a double translation, at the cost, however, of giving up the concision of the original.
  — Sam Bray, Washington Post, 25 June 2017
• This is an oral history of that production, in interviews that have been condensed for concision and clarity.
  — Zachary Pincus-Roth, Washington Post, 19 May 2022
• Note: This interview has been edited for concision and clarity.
  — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 8 June 2023
• The pacing could be tightened in places and some judicious editing would provide more heft and concision to the second act’s celebration of overcoming adveristy.
  — George Varga, sandiegouniontribune.com, 11 June 2017

Last Updated: 18 Sep 2024