tersely

How To Use tersely In A Sentence

• Our experience of Harold Pinter's The Dumb Waiter, directed by Landon Johnson for Vespertine Productions at The Flight Theatre at The Complex Theatres, is not so much that of a fly on a wall; a fly's buzz would unbalance Johnson's tersely orchestrated suspense tale of two hit men in a Birmingham basement. James Scarborough: Hollywood Fringe: The Dumb Waiter, Vespertine Productions & Girl Band in the Men's Room, Dirty Blonde Productions
• a particular bird, exactly and tersely described in the book of birds
• This book is relatively brief: seventy-five pages of tersely written text plus thirty-six pages of appendices.
• Our experience of Harold Pinter's The Dumb Waiter, directed by Landon Johnson for Vespertine Productions at The Flight Theatre at The Complex Theatres, is not so much that of a fly on a wall; a fly's buzz would unbalance Johnson's tersely orchestrated suspense tale of two hit men in a Birmingham basement. James Scarborough: Hollywood Fringe: The Dumb Waiter, Vespertine Productions & Girl Band in the Men's Room, Dirty Blonde Productions
• The message announced tersely that Lieutenant Commander Robert A. Toland, III, USNR, had been "frocked" as a Commander, USNR, which gave him the right to wear the three gold stripes of a commander, but not to collect a commander's pay just yet. Red Storm Rising
• The Republicans received what is described as a tersely worded letter indicating that they [Obama and the Democrats] had health care reform under control. Big Dogs House
• My street has recently received a headed letter from a council enforcement officer, tersely quoting the law about fly-tipping.
• Mrs Nokes proffered a hand, and the fierce rivals shook tersely before leaving the stage.
• Constitution, against the memory of the nation, against a previous decision, against a series of enactments, he decided that the slave is property; that slave property is entitled to no less protection than any other property; that the Constitution upholds it in every Territory against any act of a local legislature, and even against Congress itself; or, as the President for that term tersely promulgated the saying, "Kansas is as much a slave State as South Carolina or Georgia; slavery, by virtue of the Constitution, exists in every Territory. Memorial Address on the Life and Character of Abraham Lincoln Delivered at the request of both Houses of Congress of America
• Allen tersely responded at one point that ‘the board's responsibility is to put in place management to run the organisation’.