Sentence examples for too terse from inspiring English sources

A wireless warning from the Admiralty was indeed received on the liner, but it was too terse and muted to convey the full danger.

China has made periodic efforts over the years to assess the scope of local government debt, and Sunday's statement by the National Audit Office was too terse to tell how comprehensive the latest effort would be.

Yet, for all its clarity and comprehensiveness, its phraseology was often obscure or too terse to satisfy all needs, and a companion work known as the Tosefta ("Additions"), in which omitted traditions and explanatory notes were recorded, was compiled shortly thereafter.

Too terse?

They tweeted the end of the manhunt too, terse and triumphant.

Although most of the Danish men I spoke to found Sarah Lund far too terse and miserable to be remotely attractive, there can barely be a man in Britain who's not in love with Sarah Lund.

A long or speedy reply can make someone sound too eager; a terse or slow reply might seem standoffish.

Thanks for the kind words, I will try to be terse, too.

There's a modern literature of terse discontinuity, too, such as that of Samuel Beckett and Marguerite Duras.

She is the Vietnamese-American Bao Viet Dinh, voice husky with attitude that's a few sizes too large, spitting out terse lines of verse that scorn stereotype: "This is not an ode to Bruce Lee Ms. Joneses, who was born in Baltimore, is an astonishing mimic with an uncanny ability to alter the texture, color and volume of her voice and even the shape of her body.

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.