Sentence examples for for a terse from inspiring English sources

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His features and oarsman's physique, together with those double-barrelled middle initials, prepared me for a terse Anglophilic bureaucrat.

Save for a terse thanks to collaborators and crew after the credits roll, Anohni doesn't speak a word, lest the spell somehow be broken.

Except for a terse "we follow trends closely," the company has never specified how it keeps up with the demands of a youth culture that changes more quickly than anything else in fast-growing India.

It is odd how the illusion persists, even among professors of communications, that writing for radio and television calls for a terse, "abbreviated" style: news writing for these media is intentionally wordy.

Vera Drake lead Imelda Staunton returns for a terse cameo at the start, and the film turns out to be one of Leigh's most ambitious films – a narratively low-key but very cogent and moving ensemble piece about family, ageing and self-deception.

And for a terse and single-minded man, Setrakian can be very descriptive when prodded.

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Many substituted the name of the army chief, Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, for Mr. Mubarak's, a terse shorthand for the growing sentiment among pro-democracy activists that the temporary military government has not moved fast enough with its promised reforms.

But Hasbro, the company of which Parker Brothers is now a subsidiary, still downplays Magie's status, responding to a request for comment with a terse statement: "Hasbro credits the official Monopoly game produced and played today to Charles Darrow".

In response to Sanders' tweet Tuesday, Joe Hunter, a spokesman for Johnson, offered a terse reply. .

The district attorney, Elizabeth D. Scheibel, for her part, issued a terse statement on Thursday suggesting that the school superintendent did not know the facts.

"The senator sent the governor a humorous gift last week, and the governor responded in kind," a spokesman for Mr. Schwarzenegger, Aaron McLear, said in a terse e-mail message.

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