Sentence examples for as terse from inspiring English sources

His responses to reporters' questions could be as terse as Gary Cooper confronting the baddies.

For some authors these would be as terse as a 140-character tweet.

The Roseland set was also as terse as an old punk-rock show: just an hour.

OFFICIAL reports were as terse as usual: Bo Xilai, the party chief of the south-western region of Chongqing, had been replaced by a deputy prime minister, Zhang Dejiang.

It includes Dwight Yoakam, whose songs are as terse and twangy as those of his idol Buck Owens, and a relative newcomer, Gary Allan, whose 2001 album, "Alright Guy" (MCA), is a virtual concept album about masculinity.

She came across as terse and somewhat perfunctory, recalled several people who were there.

She can be as terse-lipped as she likes, as long as she retains the power to redeem the chosen from the thing they fear most.

Where earlier writers might have used prepositional phrases, Classical authors preferred bare nominal-case forms as terser and more exact.

Bump (about suburban drug culture) is her minimalist apotheosis, as sparse and terse as Ariana Grande in hell remixed by 1986 Mantronix.

What amazed me was the aura of mystery and melancholy Bolaño created, a sort of microclimate reminiscent (as was the terse, reportorial style) of Babel and Kafka, a weather that obliterated everything outside the story.

Drabble continued as a terse and opinionated author and journalist well into his 70s.