| But the style has too much vigour and terseness to warrant this supposition. |
| 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. |
| She opened her mouth to protest, but found Abigale had already turned to leave, severing their conversation with a startling terseness. |
| It has the terseness of the French, without the grandiloquence of the Spanish, being derived directly from the Latin. |
| One with purity, the most precise minerality, and a terseness that reveals so well the jewels he is in charge of. |
| The only occasion when our terseness transforms into garrulity is when we watch and discuss cricket. |
