| The only occasion when our terseness transforms into garrulity is when we watch and discuss cricket. |
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| Note again the terseness, the declarative and documentary force of Lee's voice. |
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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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| There is a poise and tautness and silveriness to its glide that comes perhaps from the terseness of Japanese ritual music. |
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| One with purity, the most precise minerality, and a terseness that reveals so well the jewels he is in charge of. |
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| His terseness and abruptness make him sometimes obscure, and his vocabulary is amazing in its indiscriminateness. |
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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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| I think your choice of only masculine rhyme is a good one because it fulfills a terseness which is necessary in order to dispatch these observations you make. |
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| Frost's blank verse has the same terseness and concision that mark his poetry in general. |
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| In their succinct terseness, his renderings of those years were more abstract than any preceding them. |
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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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| His words and manner carried the crisp terseness of the busy man whose time is money. |
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| Stylistically, there are occasional lapses, which are characterised by a postmodern 'fruitiness' or a vatic terseness. |
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| Its terseness, too, is characteristic: the dramatic juxtaposition of expansive gestures and utter simplicity within a remarkably small musical space are prophetic of the concision of Brian's later symphonic works. |
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| The Concerto's harmonic rigor and terseness of formal design are salted and peppered with crunchy false relations and sweetly acidulous canons at the half bar. |
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