| 单词 | terseness |
| 例句 | His first line of defense was frowning terseness. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z His expression is calm, but he’s angry—the terseness in his voice betrays him. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Despite Tarantino’s terseness, the director was happy to discuss his recent marriage to actor Daniella Pick. 'I reject your hypothesis': Tarantino lashes out at criticism over female actors 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z But it was more radical in its terseness and economy, its willingness to allow inarticulate characters to establish the rhythms of their lives and relationships through physical movement. An Appraisal: Scrappy Papa of the Ultimate Stage Momma 2011-05-06T22:19:02Z Crucial to the effectiveness of this sequence, and the production as a whole, is Fletcher’s portrait of the conflicted Austrian mother, Hani Mueller, whose terseness and physical stillness testify to her near despair. Review | The drama of saving refugee children in 1939, and a journey that’s just as moving and meaningful today 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z The material aspires to powerful terseness, but its seemingly conscientious refusal to ramp up too much drama ultimately renders it thinly anecdotal. Review: In ‘Yosemite,’ a Coming-of-Age Tale of 3 Boys in 1980s California 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z At the two university campuses most associated with Cosby, there was a pinched terseness from administrators. Bill Cosby’s legacy, recast: Accusers speak in detail about sexual-assault allegations These gents may be mistaking your terseness about being a lawyer for a superior attitude. Social Q’s: Social Q’s – An Unfit Friend on a Fitness Excursion 2012-09-06T21:32:48Z “Yes,” he replied with typical terseness, and a little laugh, “except that they looked exactly like the reproductions.” Jasper Johns Still Doesn’t Want to Explain His Art 2018-02-07T05:00:00Z Beneath the aphoristic, agitprop terseness of many of the songs lurk multiple allusions to the great lieder composers of the 19th century. Maltman/Drake – review 2013-06-02T16:00:02Z In suspense, terseness and economy, they belong together. Want to Try a Robert Bresson Film? Look to Clint Eastwood 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z Mr. McPherson, playing with brushes, made it a study in suspense, beginning with such whispery terseness that he seemed at first to be ushering the song to bed. Music Review: Fred Hersch Trio, Live and Recorded, at the Village Vanguard 2012-02-08T22:51:48Z Nothing prepares us for the terseness of the last line, and yet how right it is. Poem of the week: Vigil Strange I Kept in the Field One Night by Walt Whitman 2012-08-06T11:26:00Z For a band so adept at terseness, it was a distraction. Music Review: Cloud Nothings at the Studio at Webster Hall 2012-01-28T02:24:57Z Fans yearning for a return to the guitar-driven terseness of “Is This It” get exactly that on the first single, “Under Cover of Darkness.” Album review: The Strokes' 'Angles' 2011-03-15T04:32:53Z Surviving the horrors of the Holocaust, Appelfeld suggests with characteristic terseness, entails more than simply the fight to keep breathing. The Pain of the Holocaust Echoes Through Three Israeli Novels 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z There's a real astringency to many of the textures in the Third Symphony, a bittersweet terseness that Litton clearly relished. Bournemouth SO/Litton - review 2011-03-17T18:01:35Z Yes, all is well, until suddenly it isn't, and Roth – with unsentimental terseness – brings the long-prepared catastrophe down. Nemesis by Philip Roth 2010-10-02T09:03:00Z He was a master of terseness, of the unfinished gesture that turns out to be complete in itself, and he had a profound influence on generations of musicians, including everyone mentioned here. Music: Jazz Records Inspired by Paul Motian 2011-12-04T04:03:06Z This new translation of “the complete first edition” allows those without German expertise a chance to reexperience familiar stories in all their original Hemingwayesque terseness. Michael Dirda reviews five fairy-tale books 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z “Everybody gone now,” he wrote in an e-mail, in 2010, with uncharacteristic terseness. Revisiting a Symphonic AIDS Memorial 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z Instead, seemingly innocent comments sting as painfully as insults, and are funnier for their terseness. Review: Innocuous Remarks Double as Cutting Commentary in ‘Abigail’s Party’ 2016-11-20T05:00:00Z As the frequency of expression grows, the force of expression diminishes: Digital expectations of alacrity and terseness confer the highest prestige upon the twittering cacophony of one-liners and promotional announcements. Among the Disrupted 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z And the work’s general pessimism seems better suited to its original terseness than to more epic scale. Review: After a Met Opera Milestone, ‘Boris’ Brings Another 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z Mr. Reed’s music had that room: a lot of repetition, empty spaces, terseness, intuition, blankness, bluntness, talking as singing. Critic’s Notebook: Billy Joel’s New Year’s Eve Concert at Barclays Center 2014-01-02T22:33:44Z Her terseness has limitations, too — it makes her ideology transmissible, and easy to destabilize, or even undermine. Barbara Kruger: Infinitely Copied, Still Unmatched 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z Smits has been an easy sell since his “L.A. Law” sex symbol days, and the series works to play to the audience’s natural affection for him to counteract McGee’s dissonant terseness. Law, be a lady: "Stumptown" leads the new squad of TV women fighting for justice 2019-09-21T04:00:00Z He connects that terseness with his current physical state and current musical passions, which are taking him by surprise. John Tavener: 'The days of seven-hour pieces are gone' 2013-07-01T18:00:01Z But both the terseness of the network’s announcement and the timing of it — so shortly after Fox News reached a $787.5 million settlement with Dominion Voting Systems in its defamation lawsuit — are difficult to ignore. Analysis | Why Tucker Carlson was a problem for Fox News 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z “Hesitant about what? I guess I’m frightened now that I realize how truly cowardly most people are,” singer-lyricist Oldham replies with a certain terseness. 16 years and one pandemic later, Will Oldham and Matt Sweeney follow up a cult classic 2021-06-14T04:00:00Z The often crisp terseness of Didion’s prose was something that Hathaway latched onto. How Anne Hathaway and Dee Rees made Netflix's 'The Last Thing He Wanted' on their own terms 2020-02-28T05:00:00Z Another way that she avoided an overbearing “I” was simply with the terseness of her prose. Rediscovering Natalia Ginzburg 2019-07-22T04:00:00Z Writing like this, dense and layered, is the opposite of traditional English terseness and understatement. How Anthony Powell Wrote His Twelve-Volume Masterpiece 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z As the character opens up, so does the performance, from bland terseness to moving sorrow. Review: ‘Evidence of Things Unseen’ a heartfelt look at a family tiptoeing around tragedy 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z Mr. Tillerson’s terseness on North Korea fits into a broader pattern of silence around American foreign policy goals, outlined here by Eliot Cohen. Right and Left: Partisan Writing You Shouldn’t Miss 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z The graffiti’s very specific employ of the descriptor “fake” encompasses much of the above with a symbolic terseness. ‘Fake’: from president’s lips to racist’s spray can 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z In the course of the three books, the language grows simpler and simpler, but avoids the tough-guy impression frequently associated with terseness. A Neglected South American Masterpiece 2017-01-15T05:00:00Z “It was fine,” Nicholas said, with a terseness familiar to any parent of a middle schooler. Kid-Wrangling 101 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z “Give it some time,” he responded with a trademark terseness. As the Cubs look to exorcise their ghosts, I've already buried mine 2016-10-15T04:00:00Z The 1931 bill signed into law by President Herbert Hoover that adopted the song as the nation’s anthem is a model of terseness. At Rio Olympics, the National Anthem Sounds … Sad? 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z His most famous poem, “In a Station of the Metro,” uses that same terseness to achieve its effect: “The apparition of these faces in the crowd; / Petals on a wet, black bough.” The complicated literary history of 'Yellowface' did not start with Michael Derrick Hudson 2015-09-19T04:00:00Z When I responded to his message later that afternoon, the young man carried his end of the conversation with the typical terseness of a teenager. If a patient knowingly endangers himself, can a doctor deny him medical tests? 2013-11-18T22:07:57Z It describes with Jesuit terseness that we are nowhere when considering retirement. On Common Ground: Pelosi and Cruz, Get to Work 2013-10-01T13:40:40Z The beauty of Vine is that the enforced terseness of the videos seems to fit our increasingly minimal attention spans. How Vine, Twitter's New Video Service, Will Change Your Business 2013-06-20T21:38:05Z In the New York Times, Michael Firko, acting deputy administrator in charge of biotechnology at APHIS, attained a terseness worthy of Elmore Leonard. The Search for Monsanto's Rogue GMO Wheat 2013-06-20T09:56:25Z The concept of compression is similar, though, and very in keeping with the terseness of Twitter’s mission. Twisted Vine: As Twitter Pursues Amplifiers, It's Becoming Noisier 2013-01-25T16:19:11Z And when I first read it to my reverend brethren, hard words were spoken of this passage, because in its terseness, in its elliptic form, it easily allows itself to be misunderstood. Letters to the Clergy On The Lord's Prayer and the Church 2012-03-29T02:00:12.080Z His style ranges from the brilliancy of his youth to the sternness and sombre gravity of age, passing almost to poetic expression in its epigrammatic terseness. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" 2012-03-25T02:00:05.717Z It conducts us through the life of the institution, arguing with terseness its constitutionality, defending its educational principles, and explaining the necessity for its preservation. Guide to West Point, and the U.S. Military Academy 2012-03-20T02:00:14.607Z All of which queries were answered in a fashion which, while lacking in geniality and erring a little on the side of terseness, showed that the respondent knew what he was talking about. A Safety Match 2012-03-19T02:00:23.817Z No writer is more Roman in the stateliness and dignity, the terseness, occasionally even in the sobriety and bare literalness, of his diction. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" 2012-03-15T02:00:32.250Z With no pretensions to literary or oratorical excellence, he is able to express his clear and vigorous ideas with terseness and point, both with pen and tongue. Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland 2012-03-12T03:00:20.310Z His mind was restless, audacious, swift; his self assertion was immense; his thoughts came in floods; his literary style was admirable for freshness, terseness and vigor. Transcendentalism in New England A History 2012-02-18T03:00:16.210Z But the style has too much vigour and terseness to warrant this supposition. Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 102, October 11, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. 2012-02-07T03:00:08.550Z Mr. A. Langdale in a letter to the London Daily News puts the Catholic view upon the education question with accuracy and yet with refreshing terseness. Donahoe's Magazine, Volume XV, No. 3 Volume XV (Jan 1886-Jul 1886) 2012-01-23T03:00:12.223Z The major's terseness was more convincing than a great deal of argument, and Grace saw what she must do. Delilah of the Snows 2012-01-23T03:00:09.087Z The language used for this purpose has a terseness, a concentration, a sublimity which betokens the voice of a Sovereign, the fiat of a Legislator. Church and State as Seen in the Formation of Christendom 2012-01-11T03:00:30.173Z Beatrice liked his terseness and in some ways she liked and respected him. Harding of Allenwood 2011-12-21T03:00:21.617Z Gozzi, in particular, showed real powers for burlesque satire in his Marfisa Bizzarra; and some of his occasional pieces are composed with a terseness and directness worthy of the classical age of Florentine literature. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First 2011-12-12T03:00:27.507Z His classical reading shows itself in the comparative terseness and smartness of his verses. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" 2011-12-05T03:00:51.527Z A single word in the original is often rendered by two or three in the translation, for the terseness of the Bengālī could rarely be repeated. Vidy?pati: Bang?ya pad?bali; songs of the love of R?dh? and Krishna 2011-12-02T03:00:26.297Z In him was seen purity of diction, clearness and terseness of expression, power of logic, richness and agreeableness of invention, and a style that was at once mellifluous and sublime. Vondel's Lucifer 2011-10-09T02:00:28.557Z The inscription, as a composition, wants terseness: on this point, I content myself with giving a hint typographically. Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 90, July 19, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc. 2011-10-03T02:00:27.757Z Instead of the rugged terseness and vigour of earlier days, we now find often diffuse and overflowing utterances of the heart. Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 2011-09-14T02:00:43.813Z Just before the battle she said to the Duke of Alen�on with a cheerfulness and terseness worthy of the best passages of antiquity: "Gallant sir, are your spurs good?" The Executioner's Knife Or Joan of Arc 2011-09-13T02:00:34.817Z One of these, Freedom of Mind, is remarkable for freshness of thought and terseness of expression. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" 2011-08-24T02:00:20.690Z We have found a wealth of surprise in the strength, the simplicity, and the terseness of the imaginative feeling they display.’—Spectator. A Classified Catalogue of Selected Works Published by George Bell and Sons November, 1892 2011-08-05T02:00:49.363Z Parry's legal style became Demosthenic in its terseness. Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 1 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:20.507Z Accordingly, if we would have our speech forcible, we shall need to put into it quite as much of audacity as we do of precision, terseness, 84 or simplicity. The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education 2011-07-19T02:00:17.220Z The Maynard Case In his anxiety to secure terseness of editorial utterance he at one time limited all editorials to fifty lines each. Recollections of a Varied Life 2011-07-14T02:00:11.837Z That dispatch, beautiful in its epigrammatic terseness, and sublime in its devout thankfulness and gratitude, will be carried down the coming centuries, as long as the remembrance of the great feat shall survive. The History of Peru 2011-06-27T02:01:04.487Z "Dinner," replied the sentry, with equal terseness, which meant one o'clock, when the warders dined. Privateers and Privateering 2011-06-21T02:00:26.477Z The philosophic thought clogs the epic movement, but the thought is weighty enough, and expressed with sufficient terseness and force, to be worthy of attention for its own sake. The Age of Tennyson 2011-05-31T02:00:36.607Z Cowper was not, it appears, a very acute Latinist, and his renderings of Vincent Bourne's poems, as we shall see, proved that he cared little for the simple terseness of Bourne's elegiacs. Essays 2011-04-15T02:00:16.160Z He evidently attached more importance to correctness and terseness of style, than to originality of genius or fertility of invention. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z He saw a figure of medium size, and perfect shape—its members knitted together, with a terseness that indicated true strength. The White Gauntlet 2011-03-30T02:00:16.130Z It aids its quickness and directness of mental view, in giving to his style a pointed epigrammatic terseness which is quite its own, and a frequent weight and effect which no other equals. A Letter on Shakspere's Authorship of The Two Noble Kinsmen and on the characteristics of Shakspere's style and the secret of his supremacy 2011-03-21T02:00:11.187Z The will to be clear often forces the poet to a triteness of wording; the terseness necessitates frequent repetition; the impulse to build up an organic ecstasy often leads to excessive length. ?mile Verhaeren 2011-02-26T03:00:52.147Z In point of brevity and terseness of statement, it will be found to have no superior. Harper's New Monthly Magazine No. XVI.?September, 1851?Vol. III. 2011-02-15T03:00:16.383Z It has been well said that "in graphic terseness, in poetic simplicity, in fiery fervor, in tenderness of pathos, our modern poetry does not approach these old ballads." The Century of Columbus 2011-01-29T03:00:17.380Z Stadinger drew himself up rigidly and replied with his usual terseness: "I believed Your Highness had no time here in the war to think about such foolishness." The Sign of Flame 2011-01-27T03:00:43.087Z Excuse this terseness, but I have to die in an hour, or even less, if a sunbeam hasn’t misled me.” His Unknown Wife 2011-01-27T03:00:38.763Z Dennis Roche, president of Positively Cleveland, the Northeast Ohio convention and visitors’ bureau, said, “I thought both the timing and terseness of the message were right on point.” A Statement Hits Home as Cleveland Stews 2010-07-10T00:51:00Z The terseness of a static charge of high voltage was in the great library. Whispering Wires Van Male, to whose letters we owe our knowledge of this fact, and who was employed to translate his master's French into Latin, praises the terseness and elegance of the style. The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 4, July, 1851 Capable of terseness, of suggestiveness, quick to note and communicate the vital spark, they were yet rarely content with it alone. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 16 In Boileau for the first time appeared terseness and vigour of expression, with perfect regularity of verse structure. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 2 "Bohemia" to "Borgia, Francis" He closed his lips firmly, determined to imitate the terseness of his guest; but when he observed with a side-glance that Connor would not press the inquiry, talk suddenly overflowed. The Garden of Eden It is written with terseness and vigor, displaying a chaste and powerful imagination, with an admirable command of the appropriate language of poetry. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, February, 1852 Miss Martineau's style is always excellent for strength and fulness of meaning, and at times she has a real genius for terseness. The Galaxy, May, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—May, 1877.—No. 5. Why, you’ve been arguing against yourself with a grip of your points which would be worthy of the smartest K.C., and with a terseness which would not earn him his fee. Forging the Blades A Tale of the Zulu Rebellion He often spoke of Stopford's “knowledge, terseness, discrimination, and just judgment.” The Life of William Ewart Gladstone (Vol 2 of 3) The leading journal will point out with its usual epigrammatic terseness, varied illustration, good sense and eloquence, the advantage of letting people alone, and the extent to which our Government does let us alone. Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) The epigrammatic terseness and unexpected turns of imagination which characterize the poems, are found also in his discourses. Library of the World's Best literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 12 To give it the highest praise, it may be said to be French in its clearness and terseness. Garden and Forest Weekly, Volume 1 No. 1, February 29, 1888 “No; I’ll see this scrap through first,” was the trader’s reply, given with characteristic terseness. Forging the Blades A Tale of the Zulu Rebellion “A quiet humor, a quaintness and terseness of style, will strongly recommend them.” Eureka: A Prose Poem Trifling ones have survived, with scarcely any pretensions but the terseness of their trifles. English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century How these things promote terseness and pithiness of speech! 1931: A Glance at the Twentieth Century The later Collects may sometimes be distinguished from these ancient ones by their lack of terseness, and by their greater use of scriptural language. The Church Handy Dictionary He scarcely ever reached again this terseness and vivacity of style, and this entrain. The English Novel in the Time of Shakespeare Arbuthnot’s style is distinguished from that of his contemporaries, even by a greater degree of terseness and conciseness. Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature There is no want in him, either, of that power of epigrammatic terseness, which, in spite of its diffuseness, his age valued and cultivated. Spenser There was a terseness and massiveness in his speech, curiously blended with subtilty and fervor. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 92, June, 1865 My old friend Dizzy used to say to me, 'Shaw, what I admire about Lefevre is his terseness. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 98, May 24, 1890 Occasionally, however, breadth of treatment and terseness of design combined to produce a short movement on one idea indistinguishable in form from a fughetta of Bach; as in the Kyrie of Palestrina’s Mass, Salve Regina. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 2 "Constantine Pavlovich" to "Convention" He combines terseness and lucidity, which is a rare combination in letters; his phrasing is as beautiful and fine as it is forcible, which is a distinction rarer still. Robert Burns Famous Scots Series This danger Schumann avoids by a style noticeable for terseness and structural solidity. Music: An Art and a Language The different foibles, and faults worse than foibles of the women of that day are exhibited with a satirist's licence, and occasionally with a Pope-like terseness. The Age of Pope (1700-1744) "No, Gregory; it is not," Mrs. Forrester returned with some terseness, for she felt his remark to be unbecoming. Tante His talk with Bobby Dane was longer, and at intervals it became interjectional in its terseness. The Dominant Strain His guide introduced Breckenbridge with the usual terseness of such ceremonies among his kind. When the West Was Young He possessed an exceptional ability to absorb the essential implications of a text and to present it with the terseness and force of an adage. Hymns and Hymnwriters of Denmark But this general formula possesses definite advantages other than mere terseness and convenience. The Practice of Autosuggestion In Antonio Machado's work—and he is beginning to be generally considered the central figure—there is a restraint and terseness of phrase rare in any poetry. Rosinante to the Road Again There is a terseness and vigour in Braithwait's style which is superior to that of his contemporary, Peacham; who seems to excel in a calm, easy, and graceful manner of composition. Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance They were laid down with beautiful precision and terseness by Lord Chief-Justice De Grey, in the case of Rex. v. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844 There is at once exquisite simplicity and great terseness in this natural division of the only modes in which men can acquire knowledge; and we find it wonderfully exemplified in all revelation. The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed Its terseness fits the dead man's name:— Here in the vault beneath at midnight the Dec. Highways and Byways in Surrey In order to fit it to the Chinese ideographs for literary purposes, it was being deprived of its mellifluous polysyllabic character and reduced to monosyllabic terseness. A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Old Roger is one of my most favourite authors; and I wish English scholars255 in general not only to read his works frequently, but to imitate the terseness and perspicuity of his style. Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance Froissart, with his usual terseness, has graphically recorded the combat which ensued. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07 Bar-Ṣalībī was undoubtedly an able theologian; his vigour combined with terseness in argument is well seen, for instance, in the introductory sections of his commentary on St Matthew. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" His works are admirable, full of life and color, although his style is lacking in terseness and strength. Southern Literature From 1579-1895 A comprehensive review, with copious extracts and criticisms for the use of schools and the general reader "His methods do not lack terseness," remarked Lewes, when he and Challis were out of earshot of the cottage. The Wonder At this period, the literature of Rome reached its highest purity and terseness. Ancient States and Empires Selected thoughts depend for their flavor upon the terseness of their expression, for thoughts are grains of sugar, or salt, that must be melted in a drop of water.—J. Pearls of Thought The Log Cabin was characterized by the homely wit, the unsparing logic, and the terseness and vigor of expression which were always Horace Greeley's most marked traits as a journalist. Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 4 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History London Morning Post: "Vigor of characterization accompanied by an admirable terseness and simplicity of expression." Margarita's Soul The Romantic Recollections of a Man of Fifty For melody, terseness, and beauty of words, the song excels more than any other form of poetry; and they are wise who have a private collection of the songs which, like swallows, come and disappear. Fables of John Gay (Somewhat Altered) As much was said to us, at first with military terseness, and latterly, this proving of no effect, with cursings and blasphemies. The Surrender of Santiago An Account of the Historic Surrender of Santiago to General Shafter, July 17, 1898 His style is a model of terseness, vigor, and perspicuity, and yet the reader is constantly charmed by its chaste purity and grace. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866 Harley was surprised to see with what terseness, strength, and elegance she expressed herself. The Candidate A Political Romance We have thus a common denominator of language, and need not take into account the unrivaled precision and terseness of the Greek and the force and clearness of the Latin. Historical Essays In its terseness and strength, its truth and modesty, its patriotism and hopefulness, this utterance stands unrivalled. William Pitt and the Great War And Lycurgus by using his citizens from boyhood to silence taught them to perfection their brevity and terseness. Plutarch's Morals At breakfast I found him studying the marvellous and eventful history of Baron Munchausen; a work whose periods are equally free from the long-winded obscurity of Tacitus, and the asthmatic terseness of Sallust. The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency To be useful as an instrument of thought it should keep to the prosaic terseness of a telegraphic code. Human Traits and their Social Significance For perspicuity, terseness, plainness, and conclusiveness of argument this letter stands among the best of all President Lincoln's writings. Slavery and Four Years of War, Vol. 1-2 A Political History of Slavery in the United States Together With a Narrative of the Campaigns and Battles of the Civil War In Which the Author Took Part: 1861-1865 Lord Sherbrooke, with his usual epigrammatic terseness, bids you educate your future rulers. Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American His rhythm and periods are swelling and sonorous; and here and there he equals Pope in the terseness and condensation of his language. A Brief History of the English Language and Literature, Vol. 2 Rad scowled and said nothing, and the rest of his answers were terseness itself. The Four Pools Mystery The shrewdness of the political philosophy with which this passage opens is matched only by the terseness with which the fundamental rights of the Commons as a body are enumerated. The Governments of Europe Superb sense of economy, of terseness the art calls for, excessive pruning and clipping. Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets I must also tell you that Borrow is greatly delighted with your MS. of Omar which I showed him: delighted at the terseness so unusual in Oriental Verse. Letters of Edward FitzGerald in two volumes, Vol. 1 A week later she received her letter back with a stamped legend across its face informing her with dreadful terseness that the party to whom the letter was addressed was deceased. The Spinner's Book of Fiction He had been powerfully impressed by the energy and directness of Alfieri's work, and he was eager to emulate the gravity and simplicity, if not the terseness and conciseness, of his style and language. The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 4 The father always described, before the curtain was withdrawn, with a sort of savage terseness, the subject of the impending scene. Tancred Or, The New Crusade His striking appearance, the pithy terseness of his speech, and a certain naïve self-assertion and impatience of social restraints made him a notable figure in the polite and somewhat effeminate society of the Danish capital. Essays on Scandinavian Literature He has saved time, shortened the hours of toil, accumulated and intensified thought by the rapidity and terseness of electric messages. Something of Men I Have Known With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective But the injury is compensated by the singular terseness and vivacity of his best style. Alexander Pope English Men of Letters Series The style is sharpened to a biting terseness. Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers Hilgard, in charge of the Coast Survey office, was struck by the official terseness of the communications he occasionally received from Winlock, and resolved to be his rival. The Reminiscences of an Astronomer During dinner, while occupied with the viands, he would express himself with the terseness and condensation of Tacitus. Irish Wit and Humor Anecdote Biography of Swift, Curran, O'Leary and O'Connell Her words ring with a strange terseness and earnestness as she here pens her spiritual testament. Santa Teresa an Appreciation: with some of the best passages of the Saint's Writings All this is launched forth in speeches of singular terseness, eloquence, and vigour; but all this is specious and mischievous perversion of the truth—however admirably in character from Stephanie's lips. Shadows of the Stage The colouring of the building reminded me of Malta or Sicily, a rich mellow hue prevails; the ornaments of the Tower are so clean, so distinct, such terseness. Recollections of the late William Beckford of Fonthill, Wilts and Lansdown, Bath With his customary terseness, Templeton Thorpe declared himself to be hopelessly ill but of sound mind at the moment of drawing his last will and testament, and suffering beyond all human endurance. From the Housetops In Cadyow Castle you have not only that rousing trumpet-note which you hear in Marmion, but the pomp and glitter of a grand martial scene is painted with all Scott's peculiar terseness and vigour. Sir Walter Scott (English Men of Letters Series) Simplicity and terseness of language are the characteristics of a well educated and highly cultivated person. Our Deportment Or the Manners, Conduct and Dress of the Most Refined Society Little idea is conveyed in a brief outline of the terseness and vigor of the story. The Black Pearl This proclamation, which may be regarded as a model of terseness and expressive earnestness, had a wonderful effect. Herzegovina Or, Omer Pacha and the Christian Rebels The reader will therefore not entertain an idea of elegance of language and terseness of style, such as should rule the sentences of every composition, by whomsoever written. The Condition, Elevation, Emigration, and Destiny of the Colored People of the United States The oddest feature in the matter was that his letters to them were full of the old terseness, and force, and caustic turns. Sir Walter Scott (English Men of Letters Series) With a quite Scriptural insight and terseness of expression, Livingstone simply says that Robert Gordon was the most ‘single-hearted and painful’ of all the Christian men known to his widely-acquainted and clear-sighted biographer. Samuel Rutherford and some of his correspondents The following table illustrates the perfect simplicity and terseness of the Esperanto verb. International Language Past, Present and Future: With Specimens of Esperanto and Grammar It is not an easy task to reproduce the terseness and eloquence which characterize the original. The Life of Jesus Then a sturdy masculine shadow appeared, and there was a rustling above, and then, with exasperating, mysterious, and epigrammatic terseness, a deep voice propounded the utterly senseless question,— "How's that?" From the Ranks He was cupped, and fully recovered his speech during the course of the day, but Mr. Lockhart thinks that never, after this attack, did his style recover its full lucidity and terseness. Sir Walter Scott (English Men of Letters Series) The Arabic of the Kitáb-i-Aqdas is marked by intense concentration and terseness of expression. The Kitáb-i-Aqdas A successful dramatist, as well as a popular romance-writer, his dialogues have the point and brilliancy, his narrative the vivid terseness, generally observable in novels written by persons accustomed to dramatic composition. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844 The short sentence is the most important step toward brevity, terseness, conciseness and clear thinking. The Psychology of Management The Function of the Mind in Determining, Teaching and Installing Methods of Least Waste It is superior to either Gay or Prior; for with all their naivete and terseness, it has a Shakspearian grace and luxuriance about it, which they could not have reached. Lectures on the English Poets Delivered at the Surrey Institution And where the expressions were strong she felt that they were qualified by their own terseness. The Judge He prefers terseness to eloquence, is on the dry side, and avoids ornament as if he was a Quaker. In a Green Shade A Country Commentary He has more heart than most of his colleagues, and extracts of great terseness and beauty are still made from his poems. English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction La Rochefoucauld, expressing a commonplace with the penetrative terseness that made him a master of the apophthegm, pronounced it "not to be enough to have great qualities: a man must have the economy of them." Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol 1 of 2) Inferior to her husband in humourous description, as in depth of thought, she surpassed him in liveliness of wit, in pungency of satire, and in terseness of expression. The Life of Froude He read the article through; it sketched her life and character and the circumstances of her death with the relentless terseness of the writer cramped for space. Vandover and the Brute Anglic�: Occasionally when, in a faithful record of Parliamentary events, SEXTON's part in the proceedings must needs be noticed, it is gently hinted that among his many admirable qualities terseness of diction is not prominent. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, June 4, 1892 To the English scholar they are chiefly of historical value: many of them are written in Latin, and lose much of their terseness in a translation which retains classical peculiarities of form and phrase. English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction In a chapter of this work he had explained with his usual matchless terseness and lucidity Berkeley's theory of vision. Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol 1 of 2) Such terseness in the sex was remarkable and would have deserved a psychological investigation had it been based on any apparent data. The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him Adam Mickiewicz compares him, in respect to the brevity, conciseness, and terseness of his expression, with the last named Roman poet; in reference to his treatment of the classic elements, to Goethe. Historical View of the Languages and Literature of the Slavic Nations Out on the sea, under the streaming clouds that fled before the wind, Julian recalled the strange terseness of that reply, and the perhaps stranger silence that followed it. Flames "He do," replied the woman, with startling terseness after the foregoing. With Links of Steel Dicky's subtlety seemed to have divined his scruples, for he gave him the information he most wanted in terms whose terseness left very little room for uncertainty. The Divine Fire Almost all the comparisons from Nature in his plays are original, and rather keen and lightning-like than elaborate, often with the terseness of proverbs; The strawberry grows underneath the nettle. The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times The poet chooses scenes and incidents very skilfully, but for their proper presentation a terseness is necessary that is not reconcilable with frequent rhymes. The Influence of Old Norse Literature on English Literature Even the concentrated terseness of Latin cannot surpass these examples of the power of the simplest and shortest English sentences to penetrate to the heart. The Glory of English Prose Letters to My Grandson So far as the Gaonic period is concerned, the characteristics of these thousands of letters are lucidity of thought and terseness of expression. Chapters on Jewish Literature This seems to result from a fine simplicity, a sprightly visualization, a quaint picturesqueness, a pleasing terseness, and an Anglo-Saxon vigor. A Study of Fairy Tales His verse is smooth, clear, and agreeable, and occasionally a thought is expressed with remarkable terseness and force. A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature I think most of her contributions to the Tribune, while she remained with us, were characterized by a directness, terseness, and practicality, which are wanting in some of her earlier productions. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume II He was far from being a man of deep knowledge or having a capacity for expressing his views with terseness or clearness. Lord Elgin They had really been in preparation ever since the embargo pamphlet of 1808, and that was one reason for their ripeness and terseness, for their easy flow and condensed force. Daniel Webster The opening reminded me of that of Anastatius, without being in the slightest degree an imitation; and many of the passages recalled Voltaire, by their wit and terseness. The Idler in France The rest are distinguished by brevity, terseness, and scientific precision. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 2 But we must not envy Chinese its terseness unduly. Language An Introduction to the Study of Speech 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? Books and Characters French and English 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. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 55, May, 1862 To render the splendour, the terseness, the harmony, of this magnificent hymn seems impossible. Legends of the Madonna as Represented in the Fine Arts 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. A Mere Accident Upon receiving in Teneriffe the news of war, he summed up all his doctrines with the terseness of a victor. Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel 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. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 543, Saturday, April 21, 1832. 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. Summer on the Lakes, in 1843 "Aurore," by its terseness and poignant interpretation of the character of the woman under the Northern Lights touches poetry and is akin to music in its creative flight. O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921 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. Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers "Been and gone," was the secretary's answer, with the terseness characteristic of her. Within the Law But, says Johnson, with equal truth and terseness, "that distrust of their own immediate commanders which militia are too apt to be affected with, never produced an emotion where Marion and Pickens commanded." The Life of Francis Marion This evidences itself most strikingly in his terseness of speech. The Mountains None of the stories are precisely those of Aesop, and none have the concinnity, terseness, and unmistakable deduction of the lesson intended to be taught by the fable, so conspicuous in the great Greek fabulist. Aesop's Fables Translated by George Fyler Townsend Robert Abbot's books are conspicuous amongst the productions of his time by their terseness and variety. The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 The message was despatched, and in a few moments the answer came back, laconic, of military terseness: "Support the market." A Deal in Wheat and Other Stories of the New and Old West The principal points of each were summed up with a great deal of terseness and force, and in many cases were laughably true to life. One Day's Courtship It was enough, for in terseness, accuracy, and compression, I have never heard a better or more comprehensive description of the arid countries. The Mountains In his letters, these feelings were occasionally expressed with much liveliness, terseness, and originality. The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1838 An adept in the metrical art, he combines in these mature productions, with terseness of diction and fresh, striking imagery, deep reflection and sympathy with the intellectual questionings and yearnings of the time. Outline of Universal History The terseness of Pope was gone, and in his imitators only his tinkle remained. The Poetical Works of Beattie, Blair, and Falconer With Lives, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes Variety, satire, finesse, feeling, movement, terseness, suavity, grace, gayety, at times even nobleness, gravity, grandeur—everything—is to be found in him. Amiel's Journal His accounts of his wars, whether against the Gauls or against his domestic adversaries, are models of narration, of lucidity, of terseness and of style. Andivius Hedulio Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire His verse is as various as the feeling it conveys; now it has the terseness and edge of steel, and now palpitates with iridescent softness like the breast of a dove. Among My Books Second Series The qualities of lucid arrangement, transparency of style, and terseness of language have extended, however, to other branches of authorship; so that the French have presented a fair claim to precedence in the literary art. Outline of Universal History There are great difficulties in translating German prose; and whatever other good things Herr Stahr may have learned from Lessing, terseness and clearness are not among them. Among My Books First Series The very terseness of her question seemed to jerk an unwilling answer from the guard. The Sturdy Oak A composite Novel of American Politics by fourteen American authors The style of Phaedrus is pure and classical, and combines the simple neatness and graceful elegance of the golden age with the vigor and terseness of the silver one. Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities The latter, in fact, it seemed to me was a stylist who, in unerring sureness, terseness and plasticism, excelled all others. Recollections of My Childhood and Youth The attempts to give the terseness of his wit particularly fail, and are a strong illustration of what he himself once said to Lord * *. Memoirs of the Life of the Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan — Volume 02 The terseness of the calcined phrase explains the interior fire of it all, the magnificent conviction of the author. Battle Studies In the first announcement of the news, the very terseness of the communication seems to recreate more vividly the intense feeling which the writer knew required no insistence. The Letter-Bag of Lady Elizabeth Spencer-Stanhope — Volume 1 It is an extraordinary specimen of argument, terseness, and erudition. Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities "Four hundred miles," replied the factor with quiet terseness. The Danger Trail His blank verse in the English Garden has not the majesty of Akenside, the sweetness of Dyer, or the terseness of Armstrong. Lives of the English Poets From Johnson to Kirke White, Designed as a Continuation of Johnson's Lives His head was so clear that he never seemed to want for the clearest and most direct language in expressing his meaning, and his letters are models of terseness. Autobiography of Sir George Biddell Airy His terseness has been compared to that of Tacitus. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 13 Great Writers; Dr Lord's Uncompleted Plan, Supplemented with Essays by Emerson, Macaulay, Hedge, and Mercer Adam His other poems, in which Pindar, Anacreon, and Horace were alternately his models, are distinguished for their conciseness and terseness of style. Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities His last letter to Yule contained the simple announcement "J'ai pris Hanoï" a modest terseness of statement worthy of the best naval traditions. The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 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. Halleck's New English Literature It runs pretty closely, line for line, with the original; because one may love and emulate classical terseness even while despairing to rival it. The Vigil of Venus and Other Poems by "Q" 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. The Best Letters of Charles Lamb His terseness was calculated: that, he thought, would best control her wildness. Cytherea The comparative brevity, the greater clearness and terseness of the narrative, the freedom from diversions and digressions, all render it far better suited for such a purpose. Mosaics of Grecian History The second pamphlet was not the equal of the first in terseness or wit, but it had the advantage in argument. Inns and Taverns of Old London He seemed to start lamely enough, in spite of the exquisite grace of his voice, and manner, and language, and the epigrammatic terseness of every sentence. Hypatia — or New Foes with an Old Face Mr. Smith was still sitting erect, still speaking with grim terseness. Oh, Money! Money! Thomas Sanborn was generous, and cordially enthusiastic, though his words and manner carried the crisp terseness of the busy man whose time is money. Dawn "What a newspaper needs in its news, in its headlines, and on its editorial page is terseness, humor, descriptive power, satire, originality, good literary style, clever condensation, and accuracy, accuracy, accuracy!" An Adventure with a Genius I wish he had combined with these qualities that terseness and condensation which remind us that a Roman, even when writing "songs of love and wine," was a Roman still. The Odes and Carmen Saeculare of Horace Horace is scarcely less remarkable for his terseness than for his ease: the tendency of the octosyllabic metre in its colloquial form is to become slipshod, interminable, in a word unclassical. The Satires, Epistles, and Art of Poetry The characteristics of a good playlet ending—besides the completeness with which the problem has been "proved" and the satisfyingness with which it all rounds out—are terseness, speed and "punch." Writing for Vaudeville The terseness of Susan's reply and the expression on her face showed that the emphasis on the "Master" was not lost upon her. Dawn In truth, he was overawed by the sternness of the swine driver's manner, and the terseness of the monosyllables with which he answered questions that were subsequently put to him. The Life and Adventures of Maj. Roger Sherman Potter Alvarez was fearless to recklessness and Martin, eager to test him, addressed the group with the blunt terseness for which he was famed, and hated. Bar-20 Days Horace's characteristics, as I remarked just now, are ease and terseness, and both these Cowper possesses, ease in metre, and ease and terseness in style. The Satires, Epistles, and Art of Poetry There were six of the clippings, all from English papers, English in their terseness, brief as stock exchange reports, and equally to the point. The River's End The girl had looked up in surprise at the crisp terseness of Susan's reply. Dawn His language had all Honey's simplicity lined terseness and, in addition, he had the literary touch, both the dramatist's instinct and the fictionist's insight. Angel Island "And you have done wisely," the senate answered, a reply which, in its terseness, tells all. Imperial Purple "The deuce!" said the Dandy, who did not clearly comprehend the bent of the observation of his much pondering and philosophic friend, but was touched by its oracular terseness. Sybil, or the Two Nations And what Briton can read without enjoyment the works of James, so admirable for terseness; and the playful humour and dazzling offhand lightness of Ainsworth? The Book of Snobs All this delivered with a terseness and vigor lost in this necessary translation. Mrs. Skagg's Husbands and Other Stories Under George the First, the monotonous smoothness of Byron's versification and the terseness of his expression would have made Pope himself envious. Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 2 I asked Pipichari why he did not take sake, and he replied with a truthful terseness, "Because it makes men like dogs." Unbeaten Tracks in Japan "His cap's there on that table," said the detective with crushing terseness. The Bat On the other, in each of the spacious, unadorned sepulchres, great quantities of soldiers, with a number of terrifying terseness. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse In spite of the curt terseness of the word, Nancy quite understood the anxiety that lay behind that short "well?" Pollyanna They present a bit of nature with the terseness of a maxim of La Rochefoucault, and they delight as aphorisms do by their insight and the happy conciseness of its expression. The Soul of the Far East There was a brief silence, but the Russian's terseness of speech did not last long. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse |
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