Not because they will save money—he is sceptical about that but because the nature of crime has changed.The police tend to distinguish between various kinds of criminality, which, with typical terseness, they refer to as levels one, two and three.
ReprintsThe Democrats accuse Mr Estrada of what might be called "strategic terseness".
An automated message at the end of the e-mail, apologising for terseness and blaming the tiny keyboard, signals to the reader that no offence is intended.Although technology has compressed the spectrum of formality, it has not abolished it altogether.
Some styles were patently influenced by the importance of Chinese vocabulary and syntax, but others developed in response to the internal requirements of the various genres, whether the terseness of haiku (a poem in 17 syllables) or the bombast of the dramatic recitation.
Frost's blank verse has the same terseness and concision that mark his poetry in general.
If the aim was simultaneously to portray speed and stillness, the effect was of simultaneous garrulity and terseness, with solo instruments - a piccolo, low brass - piercing static curtains of massed-string sound.
Renowned for the precision and occasional terseness of his commentary, Lubbock, who went to Eton and read philosophy at university, was regarded as a particular authority on contemporary art, unafraid of putting noses out of joint.
Few composers can inject as much significance into thirty seconds of music as Gyorgy Kurtag, and few writers have equalled the aphoristic terseness of Franz Kafka, so Kurtag's Kafka Fragments represents a marriage made, if not in heaven, certainly in a grimly harmonious version of hell.
Did Janacek's highly expressive terseness better prepare us for Suk's protracted meditation on bereavement – the Asrael Symphony?
Airy and dancelike in style, they frequently employ, with great terseness and precision, a declamatory style in which chords follow the accents of speech.
Some rambling casualness, apparently irrelevant anecdotes, and suggestions of the conclusions that the author wishes his readers to infer are often more effective than extreme terseness.
