Sentence examples similar to eight terse from inspiring English sources

It is amazing indeed what a master poet can condense into one terse couplet.

Laviolette offered two terse no-comments when asked about the quality of officiating tonight.

In a 2007 paper that he co-authored, he summarizes his new view in three terse sentences: "Selfishness beats altruism within groups.

The hints came in two terse and routine orders from the court saying only that the justices would not intervene in proceedings under way in the lower courts.

Thereupon, in a mere four terse paragraphs, he drops with an audible kerplunk the pivotal tale of being sexually assaulted by a strange man in a public restroom.

A concerned yet witty cynic, the British artist John Isaacs exhibits five terse sculptures that look like one-liners but resonate beyond.

By the time Ginzburg wrote "Family Lexicon," she had written six terse, exceptionally lucid novels whose subject was often how carelessness can sunder ties of affection.

I'll spare you the ample tales of their cruelty and give this one terse description of their archery prowess: "From fifty yards a warrior could reliably hit an object the size of a doorknob four out of five times".

The Scotland Yard statement, confined to three terse paragraphs, offered the clearest sense so far of the danger averted when two bombs were intercepted en route from Yemen to Chicago, one in Britain and one in Dubai.

In two terse, concurring opinions barely covering five single-spaced pages, the board said that the role of students who are paid for research and teaching was "indistinguishable from a traditional master-servant relationship".

But the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, with timing that appeared aimed at heading off bigger crowds, announced Mr. Shafiq's resignation on Thursday with three terse lines on its Facebook page.