Dunne's portrayal received a mixed response, stating "the script doesn't give him much to do besides bark out exposition and snarl with hatred at the faceless enemy," though he and Tapping did "succeed in evoking an entire end-of-the-world scenario with just a few terse lines of dialogue".
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.
And delivery of such a hugely significant political stroke in a terse one line statement on the official news agency and broadcast news serves to underline how little either the Chinese public or the world at large are permitted to know about the internal politics of the world's second-largest economy.
He sings in a gentle voice and then has his guitar take over with terse lines: a few spiky notes and a trill, a brief arpeggio, question-and-answer pairs that give way to a handful of brusque chords.
The lossmaking chain of supermarkets, funeral homes and pharmacies said in a terse two-line statement that Stuart Ramsay had left the board with immediate effect after "an independent report, and at the request of the board".
Petrobras confirmed Foster's departure in a terse one-line statement on Wednesday announcing a meeting of the board of directors on Friday "due to the resignation of the president [chief executive] and the five directors".
Manjula gives a terse two-line response, but Bernadette hangs onto the relationship, no matter how unequal.
Holbrooke's office said in a terse two-line statement that McCrystal had called him in Kabul "to apologize for this story and accept full responsibility for it".
Holbrooke's office said in a terse two-line statement that McCrystal had called him in Kabul "to apologize for this story and accept full responsibility for it". It said Holbrooke "values his close and productive relationship with General McChrystal". In Kabul, President Hamid Karzai issued a statement calling McChrystal the "best commander" of the war.
Around the same time, I'd had a Huge Hideous Thing happen to me (which we definitely do not need to get into). Let's just say it was so huge and so hideous that it made me want to flee L.A. and never return". Manjula gives a terse two-line response, but Bernadette hangs onto the relationship, no matter how unequal.
