Sentences with word «terse»

Other times there's an unhelpfully terse statement saying only that the shortfall is being addressed in accordance with regulations.

At Tate Britain, you can see it in one of Laure Prouvost's dissonant videos, collaging rapid clips with terse texts.

Director Sebastian Leilo (recently an Oscar winner for last year's A Fantastic Woman) refrains from overplaying the potentially melodramatic material, instead keeping the drama to a series of terse exchanges, sidelong glances, and meaningful faces.

The following month government agencies issued terse warnings for civilians to keep their drones far away from low - flying aircraft being used to locate and evacuate Hurricane Harvey victims in Houston.

I wrote in isolation, could count my willing beta - readers on one hand and exchanged terse letters with my publisher once or twice a year.

He also makes assemblages that are satiric altars, often accompanied by terse poetic statements employing both post-Structural and anticlerical vocabularies.

For these people you can 1) ignore them or 2) greatly delay your email response time and only send a very terse response.

«He had to make his statements as terse as possible,» says Bernard Carr, a cosmologist at Queen Mary, University of London, who in 1974 became Hawking's first live - in grad student.

For a combative but contained 17 minutes, NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio yesterday offered terse answers to an abundance of questions from reporters, mostly dealing with the fallout from overlapping federal and state investigations into his administration, in a performance that in recent weeks has become a kind of house style for his embattled mayoralty.

Mann apparently gave terse, simple answers which appeared to satisfy his inquisitors but which did NOT satisfactorily answer the questions posed.

At Microsoft's annual shareholder meeting earlier today, Steve Ballmer had some very terse words to say about the company's decisions.

The name comes from the practice, adopted for mnemonic reasons, of couching what was to be remembered in very terse, almost telegraphic form, which then needed to be expanded, to make complete sentences.

On Jan. 31, 2003, McP had sent a characteristically terse note.

When I asked for a 10 - day sample of emails from Glaser's official account, I got back little actual communication: 147 pages that are largely filled with newsletters, press releases, and the occasional terse email to set up a phone call.

On occasions while I was scraping militarily critical specimens from various cage bottoms, George would offer terse reflections on the nature of Man and Monkey.

Players do this during bridge's pivotal bidding phase, by making terse bids such as «three hearts.»

The first group would get a card that had a comprehensive description of the product, while the second group got a more terse description.

The one person who did seem to get worked up by events was manager Slaven Bilic whose remonstrations in the technical area resulted in several terse conversations with the fourth official.

I immediately wondered if No. 10 — the «comms team», as Steve Baker would call it — had urged him to add it after I had reported his abrupt departure and rather terse response to me in the street.

The U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Science released this week an evaluation of a recent study on the effects of the Head Start program and, in typically terse language, reported «potentially positive effects» on reading but «no discernible effects on mathematics achievement and social - emotional development for 3 - and 4 - year old children.»

What happens after the overdue letters have been sent, and terse phone calls have been made, all to no avail?

In Baltasar Kormákur's terse thriller Contraband, Mark Wahlberg plays Chris Farraday, a career criminal who's gone straight.

Conversely, there's nothing worse than the boss who's in the office but never seen or heard from except through terse memos.»

This master of terse lines and contrasting chromatic planes finds the core of her painting within the formal simplicity and a striking sense of color.

But what grabs the headlines and gets the internet twittering is not terse press releases from the stars» publicists.

Terse writing makes for an effective, if talky, drama.

The navigation system is adequate, but the tone of the spoken voice sounds terse, and the screen never seems to be in the right field of view.

In Beauty Examined (1993) a woman's corpse lies on an examination table, outlined by terse descriptions of such vital statistics as age, weight and colour.

He does not neglect on terse dialogue or visual brutality.

In an uncharacteristically terse decision, the Supreme Court concluded that Khadr was entitled to Charter protection, and his right to «life, liberty and security of the person» was denied because he had not received videos and transcripts of his interrogations by Canadian officials.

As a result, the picture does feel unusually streamlined, and the dialogue is perhaps a tad too terse, rendering the narrative somewhat difficult to follow.

One of the lasting images in the aftermath of Super Bowl 50 was Cam Newton's terse postgame presser and sudden exit from the podium.

Other dating experts had equally terse words for alternatives like futons or waterbeds.

Other Republican senators either didn't return calls, declined to comment, or offered similarly terse replies.

In a single, terse sentence Lopez announced the resignation from the seat he's held since 1984: «I hereby resign the public office of Member of the Assembly from the 53rd Assembly District, Kings County, effective 9 a.m. Monday, May 20, 2013.»

Gov. Andrew Cuomo was fairly terse in his response just now when asked for a reaction to the Senate GOP's move to strip LG Bob Duffy of his right to break a tie in the event of a deadlocked leadership vote in the chamber.

They get terse comments and veiled threats.

Jibade - Khalil Huffman highlighted in The New York Times for his work in the group show Terses at the Studio Museum, Harlem.

He offered a positive but terse assessment of the performance of his successor, Carl E. Heastie, a Bronx Democrat: «I think he's done a great job.»

And they found that papers with terser titles top the citation count.