This week, in the Times, Charles McGrath wrote about a newly digitized collection of ephemera from Ernest Hemingway's Cuban estate, Finca Vigía, which confirms that the famously terse writer was, as McGrath says, "a hoarder".
Photograph: Torre Johnson/Magnum This week, in the Times, Charles McGrath wrote about a newly digitized collection of ephemera from Ernest Hemingway's Cuban estate, Finca Vigía, which confirms that the famously terse writer was, as McGrath says, "a hoarder".
I found Benét's wistful poetess there, but I also found another writer, a terse, intense, startlingly imprudent one, who wrote about holding a bomb in her bosom, being afraid to own a body, and feeling a cleaving in her mind.
The writers put forward terse, rigorous arguments that develop and defend Mohist ideas and rebut opponents' views.
Others seem oddly unconnected to the image, as if the writer were jotting a terse, sometimes tense afterthought that leaves a larger narrative hanging.
A writer fanatically, almost telegraphically terse, he has not flinched from the litanies of verbal repetition, the Homeric otioseness of fixed epithets that children exact so severely from candidates for the honour of amusing them.
They are terse, but they contain humor, pathos, tensionthe writer's ultimate demonstration of control.
They are terse, but they contain humor, pathos, tension the writer's ultimate demonstration of control.
Unable to attend, he issued a terse and less than ecstatic statement: "A writer writes what they write and that's all there is to it".
Generally, these writers reveal a restrained and terse style, like the poets of Spain, the Latin country least addicted to inflation of language.
On one hand, it's a terse legal thriller directed by an Oscar-nominated writer and featuring a clutch of household names.
