More and more dramas with terse titles and baritone voice-overs are striding into network time slots and expertly crouching there, weapons drawn.
Terse titles, short lines, minimal punctuation, plain speech, fraught interpersonal interactions, earnest sentiment, tiny epiphanies: all the ingredients for a teenage symphony are here.
These have terse, foreboding titles such as Ruins, Descent, Erase and Trauma.
"Each one is a powerful, original work of art in its own right, yet linked to the others with a common theme, including the way their titles – terse comments, questions, or cries of outrage – connect them, and read on from one to another.
She worries that she is trying "to write a book about a country that has ceased to exist".Indonesia's somewhat haphazard origins are betrayed in the document that provides the book's title, the terse declaration of independence from the Netherlands in 1945.
Skye Sherwin Balka took his title from a terse, late work by Samuel Beckett and analysed each of the earlier projects in order to develop his own.
We can assume that the freedom Mr. Alonso alludes to in the title of the terse, demanding "La Libertad" has its price: desolation and loneliness.
Mr. Polanski's first completed student film, "Murder" (1957), is as terse and macabre as its title; three perfectly executed sequences slip in and out of the frame with chilling efficiency.
Mahonri Young is best known for the "This Is the Place Monument" in Salt Lake City that commemorates Brigham Young's entry into the area when he made the terse declaration that is the title of the monument.
The songs, which had terse lyrics in English and titles like "Suicide," bristled every way they could figure out.
