The colt supplying that evidence was Rock of Gibraltar, who recorded yet another facile victory at Group One level.
– J. A. McGrath, “Rock thriving on success”, Daily Telegraph, June 18, 2002

Today, the nuclear projects in Iran, Iraq, and North Korea forbid the facile conclusion that the atomic weapons age is conclusively ended.
– Abba Eban, Diplomacy for the Next Century

This is a very facile sort of speculation not supported by the facts or by common sense.
– Roberto González Echevarría, The Pride of Havana

Some years before he had earned small sums scribbling paragraphs for the front page of the Civil and Military Gazette, whilst admitting to his sister Jane that a dissertation on the uselessness of the Viceroy came readily to his facile pen.
– Frances Spalding, Duncan Grant: A Biography

He had a fluent, facile style with the brush, but (much more significantly for Yeats) he painted the visions which rose up before him like emanations from some alternative reality.
– Terence Brown, The Life of W. B. Yeats

He has what one character calls “the gifts of concinnity and concision,” that deft swipe with a phrase that can be so devastating in children.
– Elizabeth Ward

Denis Donoghue is a primary critic of our time, catholic in scope, unique in literary apprehension, crucially gratifying in the clear concinnity of his prose.
– Ihab Hassan

Even so, rules are not merely there to be ignored; in fact, they constitute a democratic aristocracy based not on Debrett’s Peerage or the Almanach de Gotha but on the user’s respect for comprehensibility, consistency, concision and concinnity — or, simply, elegance.
– John Simon, “House Rules”, New York Times, October 31, 1999

It is of course precisely in such episodes of mental traveling that writers are known to do good work, sometimes even their best, solving formal problems, getting advice from Beyond, having hypnagogic adventures that with luck can be recovered later on.New York Times, June 6, 1993

\n. . .the phenomenon of hypnagogic hallucinations, or what Mr. Alvarez describes as "the flickering images and voices that well up just before sleep takes over."
– Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, "The Faces of Night, Many of Them Scary", New York Times, January 9, 1995

\nHis uncensored and uncensoring subconscious allows him to absorb the world around him and in him, and to spit it out almost undigested, as if he were walking around in a constant hypnagogic state.
– Susan Bolotin, "Don\’t Turn Your Back on This Book", New York Times, June 9, 1985

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\n

1. 1. Lack of the basic necessities or comforts of life.
   2. The condition resulting from such lack.
2. An act, condition, or result of deprivation or loss.

[Middle English privacion, from Old French privation, from Latin prvti, prvtin-, from prvtus, past participle of prvre, to deprive. See private.]

1. 1. The act or an instance of depriving; loss.
   2. The condition of being deprived; privation.
2. A removal of rank or office.

I’ve been told dolphins like to gambol in the waves in these waters, and that sighting them brings good luck.
– Barbara Kingsolver, “Where the Map Stopped”, New York Times, May 17, 1992

The bad news is that while most of us gambol in the sun, there will be much wringing of hands in environment-hugging circles about global warming and climate change.
– Derek Brown, “Heatwaves”, The Guardian, June 16, 2000

Then they joined hands (it was the stranger who began it by catching Martha and Matilda) and danced the table round, shaking their feet and tossing their arms, the glee ever more uproarious, — danced until they were breathless, every one of them, save little Sammy, who was not asked to join the gambol, but sat still in his chair, and seemed to expect no invitation.
– Norman Duncan, “Santa Claus At Lonely Cove”, The Atlantic, December 1903