But when you get a context for how certain types of responses may be related to what's gone on in your family system, your tendency to be a little bit impatient or a little bit terse might have been something that you just picked up at the pre-verbal level from watching your caregivers operate.
"People were concerned that someone might panic, but we've found that the worst case scenario is someone getting a little bit terse, and slightly frustrated, and then you show them the exit.
The owners of the ABC, CBS and NBC stations were a bit more terse.
"MajorEe MinorEe," by Mr. Ambrosio, enacts a bit of terse mischief around a blues form, while "Jan 20," by Mr. Sacks, has an uncoiling melody with a hiccupping repetition.
It's observant, funny, terse, at times a bit rude.
Opinion outside Africa was unanimous, terse, and more than a bit generic.
He could fit a dozen lines on the back and give you his enviable itinerary, a travel anecdote, a terse opera or movie review and a bit of gossip, all for 15 cents postage.
Andreessen posted his (more terse) response on the Andreessen Horowitz website — and tweeted it — a bit later in the day.
So instead I say a few terse lines that try to be friendly but are indeed probably a bit superior -- they do not tell funny anecdotes (I don't want the kinds of people who get in touch with me reading personal anecdotes!) The result has always been pitiful, and I mean pitiful, men getting in touch.
