How To Use Terseness In A Sentence
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So he focused his gaze on those in the younger generation who spoke with “military terseness,” looking for one who could strengthen the state but would also continue his reforms.
The Return
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The bell boys and concierge are overrun at times with mountains of luggage and shuttle bus responsibilities and so can be forgiven their occasional terseness.
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Seeing the president was not about to back off, Putin replied with “military terseness” that he would work wherever Yeltsin assigned him.
The Return
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All were well disciplined in terseness and time-saving.
CHAPTER IV
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He and his Oxford brother, living as they did in constant and free interchange of thought on questions of philosophy and literature and art; delighting, each of them, in the epigrammatic terseness which is the charm of the 'Pensees' of Pascal, and the 'Caractères' of La
MacMillan & Co.'s General Catalogue of Works in the Departments of History, Biography, Travels, and Belles Lettres, December, 1869
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Approaches will have to be found to compensate for terseness is a language while keeping it understandable.
Reflective Surface - More on the evolution of programming languages
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The relative terseness of the XSL transform makes the underlying concepts more apparent and thus easier to debug and maintain.
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It's rather difficult to put a different spin on all that "terseness" out of Bill, Greg - at least for me.
Rendell On Bill Clinton's Alleged Hard Feelings Towards Obama: "Get Over It," "Shake It Off"
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The only occasion when our terseness transforms into garrulity is when we watch and discuss cricket.
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This insightful writing is complemented by direction that has a levelheaded terseness to it, that always keeps the film centered, and propels it forward to its inevitable climax.
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Note again the terseness, the declarative and documentary force of Lee's voice.
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Chandler's detective Philip Marlowe would have understood the terseness of tweeting, though he would have had trouble making a story out of "erratic driving in Tameside", "drunken man urinating in public car park in Oldham: arrested"; or "car left garage without paying for petrol in Bury".
Bobbies on the tweet - police go online
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The terseness is indeed excessive and carried to Tacitean extremes.
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Murakami writes with a terseness that might be called minimalist, but the stories achieve a splendidly unminimalist richness, often taking on the potency of fable.
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None of the stories are precisely those of Aesop, and none have the concinnity, terseness, and unmistakable deduction of the lesson intended to be taught by the fable, so conspicuous in the great Greek fabulist.
Fables
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She opened her mouth to protest, but found Abigale had already turned to leave, severing their conversation with a startling terseness.
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I believe Fortescue underscores that the historic Roman rite (i.e. today's extraordinary form) ... is characterized by an elegant terseness.
Contextualizing "Noble Simplicity"
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All were well disciplined in terseness and time-saving.
CHAPTER IV
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The relative terseness of the XSL transform makes the underlying concepts more apparent and thus easier to debug and maintain.
