Sentence examples for rather terse from inspiring English sources

The memoir section of "The Rage Against God" is rather terse, a clear case of British reserve.

It led to an intense barrage of posts by Foster, including a rather terse message in which he described Twitter as, "A world full of cowardly emotionally unstable people taking their insecurities out on others".

For however striking it is, Wuorinen's rather dry, often etiolated music, sometimes recalling late Schoenberg, sometimes serial Stravinsky, rarely transcends the text enough to enhance the drama rather than just adding rather terse punctuation and commentary to it.

The following day a rather terse statement was made by John Walter Jones, the chair of the authority to the effect that the "due separation" between the authority and the management of the channel had been abolished and that the authority would, in effect, take over the channel's management.

The main clinical characteristics of these conditions are introduced in the second chapter, which also contains a (rather terse) summary of the communicative profile of each group.

While this is rather terse, Hume calls attention to three important elements in Newton's natural philosophy: (a) Newton's commitment to an experimental method; (b) the cautious nature of Newton's methodology; (c) Newton's boldness once experiments have established a "principle".

Rather constricted and terse, yes?

Moreover, parents will get weekly or fortnightly e-mails giving details of their children's progress, rather than the terse termly reports that most existing independent schools manage.

While it's great to have a conversation rather than a terse back-and-forth, the main point of an interview is to get the best, most interesting and honest responses from your interviewee, not to show off what you know on a topic, or to share your personal experiences.

Rather, it was a terse order notifying locals of the city's intention to close the streets around the town hall to pedestrians from midday until around 2pm on Monday.

Parts of the text also show signs of having been composed in a colloquial dialect rather than the more terse, graceful written classical language.