Sentence examples for terse spoken from inspiring English sources

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Next to me, a man who preferred not to identify himself spoke with terse bitterness.

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

The people who came to clean her up were terse and tired and spoke mostly in heavy Caribbean accents.

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.