Sentence examples for terse that from inspiring English sources

After decades of litigation, the final legal ruling allowing the execution of Troy Davis was a one-sentence order from the United States Supreme Court so terse that it could have fit neatly into a Twitter message with room to spare.

Perelman's response, the next day, was terse: "That's correct.

Unfortunately, tree estimation tools read and write file formats which are idiosyncratic and often so terse that they omit useful information about the analysis.

They communicate in terse sentences that might have been lifted from a philosophy primer.

Mr. Collins announced his withdrawal in a terse statement that said nothing about his reasons.

Morgan issued a terse response that was far from an "I want to thank ESPN for the opportunity" statement.

On the album "Shootenanny!" (Dreamworks), he deadpans his way through terse vignettes that merge vulnerability and bleak cynicism.

"Tonight I arrived home from work before her to be greeted by a terse note that read: 'Peel potatoes, light fire, walk dog.

Yesterday, the hospital released a terse statement that said that the Smithers center had a "long and proud tradition of treating alcoholism by advocating total abstinence.

Tonight the Gore camp claimed vindication in the court's terse order that "there is no legal impediment to the recounts continuing".

The governments of Canada, Britain, France, Holland, Germany and Japan, among others, have all said they were disturbed by the arrests, often in the kind of terse language that diplomats avoid.