Sentence examples for To be terse from inspiring English sources

The rhythms of his speech are vaguely Midwestern, and his observations tend to be terse.

Responses are expected to be terse: as much information and as little prose as possible.

Telegrams, for instance, were likely to be terse, if only for financial reasons.

These types of records can be very useful historical sources, particularly for genealogists, but they also tend to be terse and impersonal.

In "Tears of the Sun," Alex Lasker and Patrick Cirillo's script calls for the lieutenant to be terse, even evasive — a kind of pop-culture Donald Rumsfeld.

While common sense dictates that aviation needs a lingua franca, a language as rich in vocabulary and nuance as English presents some challenges in aviation operations, where communication is supposed to be terse and unambiguous.

The Ruby code tends to be terser than the Java code, and much more readable than Perl.

John, sometimes working 18-hour days ("From four O Clock in the Morning until ten at Night, I have not a single Moment, which I can call my own"), tended to be terser and less poetic.

This is not your end-of-year report; your introduction should be terse and to the point.

Be terse, if necessary, but polite.

The Old Man could be terse at times.