The recent first issue is necessarily heavy on set-up, but Palahniuk's habitually terse, sardonic voice is a good fit for comics storytelling.
And while he had access to the extensive interviews Rinzler did for a book he never wrote, Mr. Smith uses too little of Monroe's own terse, cantankerous voice.
Its successor, "Steps" — which David Foster Wallace later described as a "collection of unbelievably creepy little allegorical tableaux done in a terse elegant voice that's like nothing else anywhere ever" — won the National Book Award for fiction in 1969.
He had a minimally emotive, almost affectedly terse speaking voice.
David Byrne sings, in his terse, trademark voice: "This ain't no party / this ain't no disco / This ain't no fooling around / This ain't no Mudd Club, or C.B.G.B. / I ain't got time for that now".
Rejecting special effects, he narrates "Blooms of Darkness" in a taut, terse present-tense voice that refuses the consolations of retrospect.
The Band's brilliantly terse drummer, the voice of "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down," emerges with his current group, the Barnburners, including his daughter Amy on vocals.
His voice sounded terse, clipped, annoyed.
The Band's brilliantly terse drummer, and the voice of "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down," emerges with his current group.
(I shouldn't joke; a full-time reporter's job in a Midwestern city may soon be a prize rarer than a big lottery win.) Augustine relates his story in a terse, telegraphic, tough-guy voice that feels as manufactured and artificial as the plot.
