Sentence examples for terse observation from inspiring English sources

The terse observation that "inequities in maternal mortality are largely shaped by social, economic and political vulnerabilities that disproportionately affect the world's poor" is quite accurate [ 130].

Here, the emotion seems hard-won, extruded from the terse observations preceding it.

Fraenkel's was composed of terse meteorological observations.

Mr. Casablancas sings the terse, unforgiving observations and kiss-offs -- "I'm not your friend/I never was" -- of a demimonde where people act cool but still get their hearts broken.

Suzanne Vega's clear-eyed, levelheaded songs turn cool observation into terse, penetrating insights.

The proverb that expresses in terse form a statement embodying observations about the nature of life or about wise or unwise conduct may be so much an oral tradition as to serve in some preliterate societies as a sanction for decisions and may even be employed as lawyers employ court precedents.

The rhythms of his speech are vaguely Midwestern, and his observations tend to be terse.

And his description of learning to love jazz leads to an eye-opening, offhand cultural observation, contrasting British syntax, "so terse, so definitive," with American sentences, "tough and loose enough for you to find out how little you knew".

Terse, hard-boiled.

— he grew terse.

Terse words were exchanged.