Sentence examples for terse speaking from inspiring English sources

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He had a minimally emotive, almost affectedly terse speaking voice.

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The story of her mother, Irena, a camp survivor, is now included as a terse spoken prelude to "The Train," a farewell song that survived the Brzezinka camp.

Roy seems terse in speaking to his announcers, preferring not to tell them what to say.

His terse comment spoke volumes.

The statement was terse: François Hollande, speaking as a man and not the president, was "putting an end" to his "shared life" with Valérie Trierweiler.

Instead the characters communicated in terse, demotic lines, often speaking only a few words at a time.

In Bogart's time, the tough guy was epigrammatic, speaking in terse and tight-lipped aphorisms, leaving florid verbosity to the (usually affected, often European) villains.

Ms. Brown, in a terse statement that spoke volumes about the difficulties behind the hospital's original growth plan, cited "low volume and high overhead" in the heart-transplant market.

"What speech did you listen to?" Mr. Santorum told The New York Times, speaking in a terse and agitated tone.

That’s why I get hesitant in talking about it...’ You mean after what happened with your mum? ‘Yeah, that’s just a... closed book, you know what I mean?’ He’s speaking in a terse whisper now.

He writes the way he speaks, in terse, informative bursts, with a morbid sense of humor.

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