How To Use Tersely In A Sentence
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Having tersely summed up two arguments that I disagree with in various ways, I'll get on with my own argument.
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The theory of evolution offers a framework for understanding how terrestrial life has evolved sensory mechanisms for transducing various types of energy from the environment, such as light, heat, and mechanical energy, into electrical and chemical signals that ultimately guide physical behavior by, to summarize tersely, impacting on contractile elements in cells that, consuming chemical energy ultiamtely derived from solar energy, produce mechanical energy that results in motor movement.
"War of the Weasels" article in new Skeptical Inquirer - The Panda's Thumb
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No man, it must be conceded by all who read this paper, could have spoken more simply and nobly over the dead at Gettysburg; more firmly, and at the same time wisely and moderately, on the question of emancipation; more tersely and unanswerably than in rebutting the charges of illegal arrests.
The Magazines
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The composing of structured light sensor and the existing calibration methods are presented tersely.
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“I need to speak to you both, tonight,” he said tersely.
Haven
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Hafiz Issail tersely informed me that Israel force had broken the young cease - fire .
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The range of emotions and experiences which is embraced in this short, tersely written narrative is remarkable, and this is reflected in the richness of its subsequent readings.
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The thin man complained and continued to argue but no-one took notice but Michael, who growled tersely at his cowardice.
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We have stood down the experiment site and the workforce that was preparing the site for the experiment," read the dry, tersely worded statement issued by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency last week, referring to the "subnuclear" blast known as Divine Strake, initially slated to go off in early June at the Nevada Test Site and twice-postponed because of local uproar and environmental challenges.
Smiling Buddha
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After she was through, Vidal replied simply and tersely, ‘Are you running for office, madam?’
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The measure—tersely laid out in two paragraphs a 115-page bill outlining fiscal cuts aimed at balancing Italy's budget by 2014—would have allowed individuals and companies convicted in civil cases and ordered to pay civil damages of more than €20 million to suspend those payments until all the case's appeals processes are exhausted.
Berlusconi Scraps Measure Seen as Favorable to His Firm
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And so Plato [591] praises, and compares to clever javelin-men, such as speak tersely, compressedly, and concisely.
Plutarch's Morals
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Our experience of Harold Pinter's The Dumb Waiter, directed by Landon Johnson for Vespertine Productions at The Flight Theatre at The Complex Theatres, is not so much that of a fly on a wall; a fly's buzz would unbalance Johnson's tersely orchestrated suspense tale of two hit men in a Birmingham basement.
James Scarborough: Hollywood Fringe: The Dumb Waiter, Vespertine Productions & Girl Band in the Men's Room, Dirty Blonde Productions
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Against the Constitution, against the memory of the nation, against a previous decision, against a series of enactments he decided that the slave is property; that slave property is entitled to no less protection than any other property; that the Constitution upholds it in every Territory against any act of a local Legislature and even against Congress itself; or, as the President for that term tersely promulgated the saying: "Kansas is as much a slave State as South Carolina or Georgia; slavery, by virtue of the Constitution, exists in every Territory.
Men of Maryland
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Allen tersely responded at one point that ‘the board's responsibility is to put in place management to run the organisation’.
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Constitution, against the memory of the nation, against a previous decision, against a series of enactments, he decided that the slave is property; that slave property is entitled to no less protection than any other property; that the Constitution upholds it in every Territory against any act of a local legislature, and even against Congress itself; or, as the President for that term tersely promulgated the saying, "Kansas is as much a slave State as South Carolina or Georgia; slavery, by virtue of the Constitution, exists in every Territory.
Memorial Address on the Life and Character of Abraham Lincoln Delivered at the request of both Houses of Congress of America
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Mrs Nokes proffered a hand, and the fierce rivals shook tersely before leaving the stage.
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My street has recently received a headed letter from a council enforcement officer, tersely quoting the law about fly-tipping.
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The Republicans received what is described as a tersely worded letter indicating that they [Obama and the Democrats] had health care reform under control.
Big Dogs House
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The message announced tersely that Lieutenant Commander Robert A. Toland, III, USNR, had been "frocked" as a Commander, USNR, which gave him the right to wear the three gold stripes of a commander, but not to collect a commander's pay just yet.
Red Storm Rising
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Our experience of Harold Pinter's The Dumb Waiter, directed by Landon Johnson for Vespertine Productions at The Flight Theatre at The Complex Theatres, is not so much that of a fly on a wall; a fly's buzz would unbalance Johnson's tersely orchestrated suspense tale of two hit men in a Birmingham basement.
James Scarborough: Hollywood Fringe: The Dumb Waiter, Vespertine Productions & Girl Band in the Men's Room, Dirty Blonde Productions
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This book is relatively brief: seventy-five pages of tersely written text plus thirty-six pages of appendices.
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a particular bird, exactly and tersely described in the book of birds