Sentence examples for terse but from inspiring English sources
Their music was terse but buoyant, enlivened by tonal frictions.
He seems terse, but is instead simply soft-spoken.
This destabilizing strategy was intensified by the terse but playful indirection of Mr. Blade's drumming.
They are terse, but they contain humor, pathos, tensionthe writer's ultimate demonstration of control.
For a Politeness Monitor, these responses seemed awfully terse, but who was I to judge?
Black Francis's songs for the Pixies were terse but wild-eyed.
His answer was a terse "Yes, but only one".
He answers questions not with terse reluctance but genuine intellectual engagement.
There is the sound of crackling and breathless exchanges of terse dialogue, but virtually no movement.
Most of the mob could not hear this terse conversation, but from a distance they assumed one of the thugs finally had been caught.
He paints his wife, his neighbourhood, the humble objects of his house and studio with a tough, terse brush but a seductive love of the subjects as well as the paint itself.
