laconic

Normally we’ve associated Russia’s diplomatic style with a kind of laconic, almost sarcastic manner.

He had a reedy, nasal voice with little resonance or range, but he became an engaging and laconic interpreter of his own songs.

It’s a laconic sort of instruction familiar to anyone who has snooped through old community cookbooks or taken a mild interest in cookbook history.

She is laconic, matter of fact, and frequently speaks in “life is a journey”-type metaphors and aphorisms—all part of her charm.

J.J. Cale, 74 No one has ever pared a song down to its essentials better than this laconic Oklahoma composer and performer.

In an unfinished high-rise in the middle of Caracas, a laconic, cynical "doctor" operates on his new patient.

He pulls the reader in with his unpretentious, laconic style, and with his refusal to shy away from acknowledging his own flaws.

My take is somewhat more laconic: this just doesn't matter much.

Ramsey was laconic in response to inquiries upon this subject.

When I heard this laconic declaration of love, I began to laugh immoderately, tore myself from her grasp, and rushed away.

Yet I had spoken with quite an unwonted degree of warmth, when contrasted with my ordinary laconic way of expressing myself.

More than once she had left him with a laconic "Bye-bye," and he had spent a miserable evening before an unsympathetic fire.

"Otherwise I should have preferred starving to coming here," answered the laconic neophyte.