She bowed to him perfunctorily, then said, 'This way, please,' in the terse, terribly efficient manner of a doctor or a nurse.

He turned out to be a stiff, burly man with close-cropped gray hair and a terse manner.

He considered his predecessor's style to be emotional and disordered, compared to Cadogan's terse and efficient manner.

Two bodies, but, as Einskaldir explained in his terse manner, only one a corpse.

In his usual terse and efficient manner, Agathius was completing his logistics report.

Stone, under fire within his organization, publicly accepted Morrison's denial in a terse manner.

"Permission granted," the brain decided in its terse, unequivocal manner.

Liet hadn't expected many pleasantries from Tuek, and he accepted the terse, businesslike manner.

There was all manner of radio chatter, terse and excited, from ground stations to fighters, all to their north now.

Jobs responded to our question this evening, in his usual terse manner.