In the following issue, Atlas made a terse reply in the magazine's letters column suggesting that an unflattering portrait of Poirier in Herzog, Bellow's best-known book, might have influenced the review and should, at least, have been declared.
Newly appointed NBA commissioner Adam Silver, who made a terse, legally-airtight-to-the-point-of-meaningless statement promising a quick investigation on Saturday night, now has no choice but to come down hard on Sterling, something his predecessor David Stern failed to do.
The following day Vice-President Omar Suleiman made a terse announcement saying Mubarak was stepping down and the military's supreme council would run the country.
The new style, which was also to affect the historian's art in later times, makes a good deal of this post-classical Arabic prose look very different from the terse and direct expression characteristic of the early specimens.
It's also a far more distilled album than its predecessor, "The Monitor," from 2010, which was a daring and complex concept album about war among other things, an impressive leap in scale and ambition for a band that had first made a mark with far terser songs.
One is DWIGHT YOAKAM, who has made a long career of writing terse songs that sum up romances gone wrong in three minutes and a twang.
Ike Turner was, doubtless, not all bad, but Tina's terse comment last week made a damning epitaph: 'Tina is aware that Ike passed away earlier today.
"Made a lot of mistakes," Woods said, in a somewhat terse post-round summary.
After beating Texas Tech, a terse Houston coach, Kevin Sumlin, dodged questions about the difficulty of small-conference teams making a B.C.S. run.
"The Body" has the terse speed and casual logic of a screenplay and might make a good movie.
