Sentence examples for curt answer from inspiring English sources

"There's no need to do that," was the curt answer from the prime minister.

"I asked Bobby and he gave me a rather curt answer," he said.

So it was telling when John Kerry, a Massachusetts Democrat and the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, who led the advocacy in the Senate for New Start, gave a curt answer for a question about the test ban treaty: "There's just been no talk about that right now, none whatsoever".

The Carthaginians, quite undismayed, returned a sufficiently curt answer, in which they stated that they chose neither of the articles sent them, but were ready to accept either that the Romans might leave with them.

I received a curt answer from Sara Lauer, a Health Canada media relations officer, who wrote in an email: "the answer would be 'no.'".

It makes sense, really - just like at home, asking these kinds of questions in airports and bus stations isn't met with friendly enthusiasm, but rather a serviceable and curt answer.

He spoke little, often painfully slowly – the hushes were long before the usually curt answers.

Mr. Kamei, who sat on a podium in front of a blue-gray curtain, gave curt answers and even reprimanded reporters for their coverage.

But there is a sense that McHale is much more open to coaching than his curmudgeonly demeanor and curt answers would suggest.

A reporter asked him on Tuesday if his curt answers were because he does not like to do news conferences or if it was a deliberate attempt to hold back information.

Mr. Boothman loves questions that start with "how" -- an "opening-up word," he calls it, because it invites long, relaxed responses instead of the curt answers you get with questions that start with "Do you" or "Are you".