Short Example
"I just saw the most amazing thing!" Since the actor doesn't say what the amazing thing is, the observer is left to wonder what it is, thus creating anticipation for what the actor will say next.
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Famous quotes containing the word short:
“Modern pictures are, no doubt, delightful to look at. At least, some of them are. But they are quite impossible to live with; they are too clever, too assertive, too intellectual. Their meaning is too obvious, and their method too clearly defined. One exhausts what they have to say in a very short time, and then they become as tedious as ones relations.”
—Oscar Wilde (18541900)
“Language was not powerful enough to describe the infant phenomenon. Ill tell you what, sir, he said; the talent of this child is not to be imagined. She must be seen, sirseento be ever so faintly appreciated.... The infant phenomenon, though of short stature, had a comparatively aged countenance, and had moreover been precisely the same agenot perhaps to the full extent of the memory of the oldest inhabitant, but certainly for five good years.”
—Charles Dickens (18121870)