Which version of the sentence is most concise? we had all gathered together to celebrate the different recent events in our lives. we had all gathered to celebrate the different various recent events in our lives. we had all gathered together to celebrate the different various events in our lives. we had all gathered to celebrate the various recent events in our lives.

We had all gathered to celebrate the various recent events in our lives.

Explanation:

This example is the most concise sentence. The adverb all is used to refer to the extension of we: the speaker (s) and the listeners. This form is shorter than we had all gathererd together, in which case together sounds redundant. Then, the adjectives various and recent also contibute to make the message shorter. If we use various and different together , again, we are sounding repetitive.

it was surely an odd creature that one made up by reading the historians first and the poets afterwards a worm winged like an eagle; the spirit of life and elegance and charm,   in a kitchen chopping up suet. but these creatures, monst'r however entertaining to the imagination, hast no existence in fact. what one might doth to bringeth h'r to life wast to bethink poetically and prosaically at one and the same moment,   thus keeping in toucheth with fact—that the lady is mrs martin, ag'd thirty-six, did dress in blue, wearing a black coxcomb and brown shoeth; but not losing sight of fiction eith'r—that the lady is a vessel in which all s'rts of spirits and f'rces art coursing and flashing p'rpetually. the moment, howev'r, yond one tries this method with the elizabethan mistress, one brancheth of illumination fails; one is did hold up by the scarcity of facts.   one knoweth nothing detailed, nothing p'rfectly true and substantial about h'r.   hist'ry scarcely mentions h'r.   and i did turn to professeth'r trevelyan again to seeth what hist'ry meanteth to that gent.   i hath found by looking at his chapt'r headings yond t meanteth.