36 examples of terseness in sentences

Mrs. SAGOE, for terseness and brevity, your steaks surpass any I have ever met with."

Old Quarles, those kind of home-strokes, where more is felt than strikes the ear,a terseness, a jocular pathos which makes one feel in laughter.

His perfect command over his great mental resources, the terseness and expressiveness of his language and the moral earnestness as well as intellectual force of his delivery, made him one of the most striking of all argumentative conversers: and he was full of anecdote, a hearty laugher, and, when with people whom he liked, a most lively and amusing companion.

" "Will you tell me his circumstances?" John explained them in a few words, and with admirable terseness and lucidity; and she nodded comprehensively all the while.

After relating the short and evil history of Jehoram, King of Judah, the account endswith the appalling terseness which often crowns the dramatic climaxes of that matchless writing: "And (he) departed without being desired.

He has a terseness, a crystalline clearness, and a precision that have been excelled in the works of few even of the greatest masters of English prose.

His terseness has been compared to that of Tacitus.

The judicious selection of the facts which he relates, the vivacity of the narrative, the profoundness of the observations, and the terseness of the style, render this the most entertaining, as it is, perhaps, the most instructive of his works.

"Four hundred miles," replied the factor with quiet terseness.

If Byron's moral (which used to be thought execrable) be really his great excellence, and his style (which used to be thought almost perfect) unworthy of this age of progress, then let us have his moral without his style, his matter without his form; orthat we may be sure of never falling for a moment into his besetting sins of terseness, grace, and completenesswithout any form at all.

Moreover, there is a terseness, strength, and grace about some of these little songs, which would put to shame many a volume of vague and windy verse, which the press sees yearly sent forth by men, who, instead of working at the loom, have been pampered from their childhood with all the means and appliances of good taste and classic cultivation.

Even in those collateral ornaments of modern style, slovenliness, abruptness, and eccentricity (as well as in terseness and significance), Lord Byron, when he pleases, defies competition and surpasses all his contemporaries.

I have thought that, if some of its grammatical principles could be applied to monosyllables, a new language of great brevity, terseness, regularity, and poetic expressiveness, might be formed.

If Byron's moral (which used to be thought execrable) be really his great excellence, his style (which used to be thought almost perfect) unworthy of this age of progress, then let us have his moral without his style, his matter without his form; orthat we may be sure of never falling for a moment into his besetting sin of terseness, grace, and completenesswithout any form at all.

His writing has clarity and lucidity, it abounds in terseness of expression and in exact and discriminating phraseology, and in the minor arts of compositionin the use of quotations for instanceit can be extraordinarily felicitous.

" We submit that for terseness and vigor the practitioner at the bar of the Ohio had the better of the learned counsel who appeared at the bar of justice, albeit his client was in a Cockney mystification at the address.

Ballads, hymns, love-lyrics, have often no claim differing from those of common prose speech, to the title of poems, except a greater keenness and terseness of expression.

We can only say their movements are sung with the terseness and point which we so much admire in the great originals, so as to make men acknowledge there is good in every thing.

He shrank from the restraints and humiliations to which the poor and shabbily dressed private tutor is exposedrevealed to us with a persuasive terseness in the pages of The Unclassed, New Grub Street, Ryecroft, and the story of Topham's Chance.

" Upon receiving in Teneriffe the news of war, he summed up all his doctrines with the terseness of a victor.

And in the fifth hymn the story of St Vincent is given with that peculiar dramatic terseness that you find nowhere except in the English ballad.

In te magnificenza, in te s' aduna Quantunque in creatura è di bontate!" To render the splendour, the terseness, the harmony, of this magnificent hymn seems impossible.

Wit is verbal, conversant with language, combining keenness and terseness of expression with a keen perception of resemblances or differences; humour has, comparatively speaking, little to do with language, and is of different kinds, varying with the class of composition in which it is found.

There is about my serious style a vigor of thought, a comprehensiveness of view, a closeness of logic, and a terseness of diction commonly supposed to pertain only to the stronger sex.

And yet, with all their efforts, would they have succeeded in conveying that singular impression of disturbance, of cross-purposes, of hurry, and of ill-defined fear, which Beyle with his quiet terseness has produced?

36 examples of  terseness  in sentences