Sentence examples for terse through from inspiring English sources

It was at this point that we became familiar with the brilliant Gina Martinez, who was in charge of mass movement for our scene, and deserves a medal for getting us all in the right place at the right time, if not for her motivational catchphrase: "Let's make these lines more Beijing!" We had to receive instructions, at times terse, through headsets, which we also wore in the real show.

Obama blew off questions about Pritzker and the Superior Bank fiasco with the terse (through a spokesperson) quip that he'd crack down on fraudulent lenders.

After that, communication was terse, conducted through e-mail, and concerned money only.

The league did not immediately explain the decision, other than to issue a terse statement through a spokesman, saying, "League office declined to make the trade for basketball reasons".

The band kept things terse, playing through Electric Guest's complete recorded output — the 10 songs on "Mondo" and the Internet-only "Jenny" — in about 45 minutes, with no encore.

Like the other band members Mr. Matthewman isn't ornate in any way, calling attention to himself through terse proficiency.

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

Unwilling to waste time, Petersen, working with Mark Protosevich's terse screenplay, rushes through the opening expository stuff.

In his Xin Wudai shi and Xintangshu, Ouyang stretched the boundaries of the standard history and praised or censured men and institutions through terse but exact descriptions implying moral judgment, in supposed emulation of Confucius.

Through terse prose and charming illustrations, Tamara chronicles a year filled with drama yet also strange moments of grace, taking her from the rickshaw-clogged Indian city of Kochi to a hospital bed in New York to her unlikely second home in the Rust Belt: "I'm not sure what the people of Scranton do for a living.

Farewell crisscrosses romance, politics and the state while telling a compelling story through terse dialogue and understated action.