Sentence examples for terse and simple from inspiring English sources

Structurally Sibelius is terse and simple.

On the second, Q is so extensive or so resistant to intelligible compact expression for other reasons that the benefits to speaker and listener alike of a terse and simple utterance outweigh the inferential costs to the listener involved in extracting a large message from a small package.

The background, inspiration, and social conventions of the poems of Taliesin and Aneirin are typically heroic, the language is direct and simple, and the expression terse and vigorous.

Prince's rhythm-guitar playing was terse and unpredictable during "Kiss," a simple song that usually limits the guitar to brief punctuation, and when the show ended, with "Purple Rain," he did more than simply wail.

The use of few questions and simple wording leads to the use of somewhat terse language; nevertheless, this approach was used with some success for elders (e.g., [ 20]), with apparently greater understanding and high response rates.

The evening opened with an even terser, quainter Magnificat by Dietrich Buxtehude, an organist and composer Bach greatly admired, and it proved a delight, pure and simple.

For decades, the cabby rulebook referred to the matter of dress with a terse, simple rule: "A driver shall be clean and neat in dress and person".

Its classical Chinese is terse and elliptical.

It was terse and elegiac.

Ritt's commands are terse and monosyllabic.

The Mayor was terse and pessimistic.