The workers said that in some cases they had invented terse descriptions of the patients as poor homeless people or drifters with no fixed addresses.

"Unpleasant" was the terse description that one adviser used for the feeling when the first voter polls came in.

What lay within we knew not, beyond the terse description in the catalogue.

It has been said that this work represents the height of Hawthorne's literary genius, dense with terse descriptions.

After Cardona gave a terse but graphic description of what the body looked like, the detectives lost their curiosity.

And then, when he had given her a terse description of the runaway float, "So you were the hero!

Following his terse description of it, the euro fell against the dollar.

John got out several photographs of the missing girl and passed them around, along with a terse typed description.

No, the answer was to get out a terse description of "discovering" the object and a list of its properties.

The description, though terse, sounded more like pitched battle than the arrest of two half-sized bank robbers.