Sentence examples for terse account from inspiring English sources
In this book, deploying his knowledge of the terrain, he can amplify a source's terse account of a near-death-trail folly into pages of nail-biting drama.
Near the beginning of The Mask of Dimitrios, his most celebrated novel, he gives a terse account of the final weeks of the 1919-22 Greco-Turkish wandand the sack of Smyrna (soon to become Izmir).
Nineteen women listened closely in a classroom at the York Correctional Institution in Niantic, Conn., on a recent afternoon as Wally Lamb read aloud, not from one of his best-selling novels, but from a terse account that one of the women had written about her first day in prison.
It has an identifying code (PLAT213_ALERT_2_B) hyperlinked to a generic explanation of the problem (in the small pop-up window), and a terse account of the issue.
I vividly recall being seven or eight years old and encountering in my home-town dailies, the Tulsa World and the Tulsa Tribune, terse accounts of men in their early forties who had "succumbed" to heart attacks.
They also ordered news outlets to use only the official, terse accounts of the killings provided by the Xinhua news agency, and have kept the news off broadcast television almost entirely.
Open any random sample of science journals, and you will find a range of styles of scientific paper, from brief 'letters' or reports occupying only a few pages to monographs many tens of pages long, and from terse accounts of new results to opinionated commentaries and weighty reviews of broader fields.
It was unclear from the terse White House account of the Karzai-Rice meeting what would be the next step by Washington in its frustrated attempt to conclude the security agreement in the less than six weeks remaining this year.
The Taliban offered a terse explanation.
Davies, in his terse style, accounts for this episode with a single sentence: "A flag of truce was granted to the Federals to bury their dead them that was killed in the late fighting".
Frazier gives a terse and moving account of the 1973 Wounded Knee action... "Americans today no longer work mostly in manufacturing or agriculture but in the newly risen service economy.
