Sentence examples for terse description of from inspiring English sources

I'll spare you the ample tales of their cruelty and give this one terse description of their archery prowess: "From fifty yards a warrior could reliably hit an object the size of a doorknob four out of five times".

Rory O'Connor, an assistant special agent in charge of the Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms New York field division, offered a terse description of the events leading to Agent Capano's death.

Andropov then fuelled the already evident anger of the other members with terse descriptions of Solzhenitsyn's "impudence" — his meetings with foreign correspondents, his brazen flouting of Party control over literature and over publication abroad.

His only book, Tropic Death (1926), a collection of short stories set against a lush Caribbean backdrop, juxtaposes impressionistic images of natural beauty with terse descriptions of misery and death in such stories as "The Yellow One", "The Palm Porch", and "Subjection".

But in 1982 his terse description sparked the interest of a British air-force officer and long-distance runner called John Foden, who wondered if it really was possible to run from Athens to Sparta and arrive the next day.

"[The] terse description in Apple's announcement yesterday had some of the internet's top crypto experts wondering aloud about the exact nature of the bug.

An inability to read the non-verbal signs, and to translate an often terse description from the young person into a coherent picture of their internal emotional state, left many GPs either relying on the accompanying parent or closing down the consultation.

"Unpleasant" was the terse description that one adviser used for the feeling when the first voter polls came in.

Wanek's terse descriptions suit her reluctant retrospectives, her statements about life in general: "At some point we just want what's easiest".

The multiplicity of early names complicated later research, with the situation compounded by the terse descriptions provided by Marsh and Cope.

The records, though terse in their description of each accident, provide the first comprehensive picture of elevator accidents in public housing buildings, showing not just the frequency of injuries but also their financial costs.