Sentence examples for terse explanation from inspiring English sources

The Taliban offered a terse explanation.

Better still is a terse explanation of what separated Hank Williams from most 50's country-and-western singers: "There was nothing clownish about him".

In July, when the group announced its first proper home-town concert, at the Key Club, in West Hollywood, the official flyer had Earl's name crossed out and a terse explanation: "Will not be there due to mom".

It added that "these funds will mainly be used to modernise the army"—an even more terse explanation than China's normally opaque budgets are wont to give on military matters.

Many Russians were offended by Mr. Putin's terse explanation that he and Mr. Medvedev had privately decided to switch places long ago, said Konstantin V. Remchukov, the editor of Nezavisimaya Gazeta, a newspaper that is frequently critical of the government.

As for profiling, the Times offered this: "Two young black men were detained in handcuffs before being released with the terse explanation that they had mistakenly been stopped because they matched the general description of the robbers").

You won't find a terser explanation of the problem that dogs all news online than that.

These days, the Creation Museum opts to show Old Testament personalities riding triceratops, complete with a saddles, but a lot of homeschooled kids I knew were provided a terser explanation: satan buried them in the ground in order to lead us astray and make us believe that the world really was ancient.

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.

However, his terse, chilling explanations reveal much about the thought process of someone who is willing to die for a 'cause'cause

Decisions to hear cases — to grant petitions for certiorari, in court lingo — are announced in terse orders, without explanation or an indication of who voted how.