Sentence examples for have a terse from inspiring English sources

Yet his first two books, "Arabian Sands", about his crossing of the Empty Quarter, and "The Marsh Arabs", about southern Iraq, have a terse brilliance about them.

The management were said to have a terse, arm's-length style; one trader told me of receiving a legal warning by post from a member of staff he had been talking in person to a day earlier.

Byler's stories have a terse eloquence that fits these explorations of what can only be called post-postmacho manhood ("Today I'm going fishing.... It's very male of me, I realize" is a typically self-conscious hiccup here), but several of them are also quite fleet and very funny.

Anheuser-Busch, which makes Michelob Light, had a terse response to a question about the similarity of the two spots.

After excerpts of the book were released by Golf Digest, Woods had a terse news conference at the Honda Classic last month.

When American soldiers uncovered Mr. Hussein, dazed and dirty in an underground chamber, one of them had a terse greeting, "President Bush sends his regards".

David Ridsdale said Pell had a "terse" response to being told of the abuse, before offering him money to buy his silence.

That is when Harris asked Hampton, "Are you ready?" Hampton, a picture of intensity even in spring training, had a terse reply: "Just give me the ball".

Mr. Curson, who had a terse, muscular sound and a precise technique, was part of a generation of jazz trumpeters who followed in the wake of Clifford Brown, whose ease with the rigors of bebop he absorbed.

Or Mr. Oliver, who has a terse two-sentence thank-you note on American Red Cross letterhead, dated 2004, which does not meet the requirement that it be witnessed or sworn.

To the talk of Alabama's vaulting into the top five in college football this week and becoming part of the national championship discussion, Saban, Alabama's coach, had a terse response.