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la·con·ic
-A laconic phrase or laconism is a concise or terse statement, especially a blunt
and elliptical rejoinder. It is named after Laconia, the region of Greece including
the city of Sparta, whose ancient inhabitants had a reputation for verbal austerity
and were famous for their blunt and often pithy remarks.
antonyms: verbose, long-winded, loquacious
synonyms: brief, concise, terse, succinct, short, economical, elliptical, crisp,
pithy, to the point, incisive, short and sweet, compendious; abrupt, blunt, curt,
clipped, monosyllabic, brusque, pointed, gruff, sharp, tart; epigrammatic,
aphoristic, gnomic, taciturn, of few words, uncommunicative, reticent, quiet,
untalkative, reserved, silent, speechless, tight-lipped, unforthcoming, brusque
phi·lan·der
(of a man) readily or frequently enter into casual sexual relationships with women.
antonym:
synonyms: flirt, crush, womanise, court, squelch, solicit, play, dally, coquette, coquet, butterfly,
romance, comminute, dawdle, toy, woo, bray, womanize, grind, squeeze, crunch, mash, chat
up, squash, trifle
re·miss
lacking care or attention to duty; negligent.
antonym: careful, diligent, painstaking
synonyms: negligent, neglectful, irresponsible, careless, thoughtless, heedless,
unthinking, unmindful, lax, slack, slipshod, lackadaisical, forgetful, inattentive,
unheeding; lazy, dilatory, indolent; derelict;
Arthur Asher Miller (October 17, 1915 – February 10, 2005) was an
American playwright, essayist, and a controversial figure in the
twentieth-century American theater. Among his most popular plays are
All My Sons (1947), Death of a Salesman (1949), The Crucible (1953)
and A View from the Bridge (1955, revised 1956). He wrote several
screenplays and was most noted for his work on The Misfits (1961). The
drama Death of a Salesman has been numbered on the short list of
finest American plays in the 20th century.
Miller was often in the public eye, particularly during the late 1940s,
1950s and early 1960s. During this time, he was awarded a Pulitzer
Prize for Drama, testified before the House Un-American Activities
Committee and was married to Marilyn Monroe. In 1980, Miller
received the St. Louis Literary Award from the Saint Louis University
Library Associates.[1][2] He received the Prince of Asturias Award, the
Praemium Imperiale prize in 2002 and the Jerusalem Prize in 2003,[3]
as well as the Dorothy and Lillian Gish Lifetime Achievement Award.
Arthur Miller/Quotes
Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
You can’t eat the orange and throw the peel away—a man is not a piece of fruit.
Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.
The jungle is dark but full of diamonds...
A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
Never fight fair with a stranger, boy. You'll never get out of the jungle that way.
A small man can be just as exhausted as a great man.
Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without
value.
He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a
terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.
The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like
life.