terseness

Example Sentences

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The terseness is the message: Beijing no longer feels obliged to pretend it is weighing the costs.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 5, 2026

Her terseness has limitations, too — it makes her ideology transmissible, and easy to destabilize, or even undermine.

From New York Times • Nov. 11, 2021

“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.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 14, 2021

Exercising the latter can run the gamut from polite but telling terseness, to slow responses that telegraph the conversation is not going anywhere, to not saying anything at all when contacted.

From Slate • Nov. 16, 2020

His expression is calm, but he’s angry—the terseness in his voice betrays him.

From "Insurgent" by Veronica Roth