So in addition to Mr. Shorter's body of work — his terse and insinuative compositions, which have been closely studied by jazz musicians for decades — this newer generation has also had the opportunity to grapple with his elusive philosophy of play.
Most of the set brought members of the Feelies onstage: in Yo La Tengo's own "Barnaby, Hardly Working" and a rearranged version of Neil Young's "Time Fades Away," the Feelies' lead guitarist, Glenn Mercer, worked his terse, ragalike solos into Mr. Kaplan's wilder and more discursive ones.
And sometimes, when the work is especially terse, you find yourself registering little more than his stamina (1,022 miles in 47 days).
In 43 bc he began to publish a series of historical works in a terse, epigrammatic style studded with archaisms and avoiding the copiousness of Cicero.
Shortly after finishing this terse, elusive work, Sibelius got into a debate with Gustav Mahler on the nature of symphonic form.
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.
But what really separates "Midlands" from Leone's desiccated, terse genre work is Mr. Meadows's doting attention to his characters' decency.
Unwilling to waste time, Petersen, working with Mark Protosevich's terse screenplay, rushes through the opening expository stuff.
Last year our reviewer, Michael Gorra, found this to be an uneven novel, but said Naipaul's "terse prose works, as always, to imply a world in a phrase".
End of season team talks are soon replaced by terse conversations at work over slipping focus and the crushing realization of the neglected relationships left behind.
