But his terseness leaves a lot of questions and gray areas.
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That doesn't mean you should write with a terseness that feels cold and emotionless.
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Writing like this, dense and layered, is the opposite of traditional English terseness and understatement.
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Pui-Wing: What was interesting was the terseness of Verizon's statement about the Yahoo hacking.
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Instead, seemingly innocent comments sting as painfully as insults, and are funnier for their terseness.
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Another way that she avoided an overbearing "I" was simply with the terseness of her prose.
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Her staff balanced sly references to the Trump campaign with the salty terseness of Twitter clapbacks.
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"It was fine," Nicholas said, with a terseness familiar to any parent of a middle schooler. Really?
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Mr. Bell's settings rival the Cummings poems in pointed terseness, and Ms. Barton's performances matched them in coloristic subtleties.
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Instead I riffed off the terseness of SMS messaging to share the psychological and physiological experience of the actual walking.
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Surviving the horrors of the Holocaust, Appelfeld suggests with characteristic terseness, entails more than simply the fight to keep breathing.
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Doesn't Som's musical and linguistic terseness, his use of found text, and homophonic translations suggest that he has learned from the Objectivists?
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The 1931 bill signed into law by President Herbert Hoover that adopted the song as the nation's anthem is a model of terseness.
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In the course of the three books, the language grows simpler and simpler, but avoids the tough-guy impression frequently associated with terseness.
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They scotched rumours of a split, but the terseness of their apology for "causing trouble" made it clear they were not there entirely by choice.
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One of the features of this is that it would feel wholly inappropriate for an underling to reply to their boss using the same fast terseness.
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Parker sees Housman's habit of plainness and terseness as manifestations of English traits that amount to a sort of polite national understatement: modesty, restraint, stiff-upper-lipness.
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There is a colloquial terseness to the game's writing that's used to great comedic effect in a way that's reminiscent of shows like Adventure Time or the Regular Show.
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With that breakout work, Mr. Akhtar showed a gift for explosive terseness, packing fraught layers of meaning into the interactions of a handful of precisely drawn characters who turned ideological stereotypes inside out and back again.
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"I have a science background in that I dropped out of eighth grade and started washing dishes and became very good with certain chemicals like soap and bleach," he says with a certain terseness that bubbles up throughout our conversation.
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The kinship between the two restaurants is easy to see at the new Rochelle Canteen — in the calculated plainness of its mostly white, somewhat ramshackle décor, and in the language employed on the ever-changing menu, whose terseness cannot mask the food's appeal.
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It doesn't surprise me at all that one of the most virtuosic movies about wounded masculinity this year was made by a woman director — there are shades of Kathryn Bigelow's intensely female gaze to the film and the way it regards its morose main character, though the jolting terseness is all Ramsay's own.
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" CARAMANICA (Columbia/Legacy; three CDs, $29.98; three LPs, $19903) Bob Dylan recorded "Blonde on Blonde" in Nashville in 1966, but when he returned in 1967 — after his motorcycle accident, his seclusion in Woodstock and the "Basement Tapes" sessions with the Band — he was intent on mastering the terseness and deceptive simplicity of country tradition, first with the skeletal, Sphinx-like "John Wesley Harding" and then with the jovial, honeyed "Nashville Skyline.
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There is a poise and tautness and silveriness to its glide that comes perhaps from the terseness of Japanese ritual music.
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The Concerto's harmonic rigor and terseness of formal design are salted and peppered with crunchy false relations and sweetly acidulous canons at the half bar.
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His writings, which are marked by terseness of style, include Miscellanies, in prose (West Chester, Pa, 1862); a volume of short poems (Philadelphia, 1868); and "The Fox Chase," a poem (Philadelphia, 1875).
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Commenting on the episode "Hack Prine", which aired on July 5, 1954, the influential trade paper noted, "John Meston, while maintaining terseness in his script, endowed it with flashes of humor that gave it the character of maturity.""Gunsmoke", review, Variety, July 7, 1954, p. 26, col. 1. Internet Archive.
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Gramophone, August 1996. Janáček's terseness and Szymanowski’s richness are points of reference, although the composer has a unique voice his own.Allison J. Finland – Savonlinna; review. Opera, October 2003, 1224-6. One reviewer has even described the piece as “one of the great operas of the [20th] century”.Rickards G. CD review of Madetoja’s Juha.
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The power and terseness of early AWK programs – notably the powerful regular expression handling and conciseness due to implicit variables, which facilitate one- liners – together with the limitations of AWK at the time, were important inspirations for the Perl language (1987). In the 1990s, Perl became very popular, competing with AWK in the niche of Unix text-processing languages.
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10 After holding posts in London, Wigan and Leeds, he served as organist of York Minster from 1913 to his death, when he was succeeded by his former pupil Francis Jackson. Jackson went on to write a biography of Bairstow. He was knighted in 1932. Notorious for his terseness and bluntness, Bairstow did not always endear himself to others.
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The significance of the Rinpungpa is difficult to assess due to the terseness of the written sources. They upheld political hegemony in Tsang for 120–130 years, but little is known in detail of administrative and economic issues. Their relationship with the Chinese Ming Dynasty seems to have been indirect at best.According to Wang Furen & Suo Wenqing (1984), Highlights of Tibetan history.
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The inherited form of alliterative verse was modified somewhat in Old Norse poetry. In Old Norse, as a result of phonetic changes from the original common Germanic language, many unstressed syllables were lost. This lent Old Norse verse a characteristic terseness; the lifts tended to be crowded together at the expense of the weak syllables. In some lines, the weak syllables have been entirely suppressed.
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These portrayed life among the upper classes. Two notable dramas are Das Testament des Grossen Kurfürsten (1858) and Rolf Berndt (1881). Of his novels, Die Alpenbraut (Bride of the Alps; 1870) and Walpurgis (1870) are distinguished by refined terseness of style and delicacy of portraiture. Also notable are Vergissmeinnicht (Forget me not; 1851), Brandenburgher Geschichten (Brandenburg Tales; 1862), Novellen (1863), and Funken unter der Asche (Sparks under the ashes; 1871).
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"The problem lies, of course, in the terseness of the original Chinese, where each principle is stated in but four characters.... Each period of Chinese painting has its own special way of interpreting the six principles...their application is fluid, varying according to period and artist".Fritz van Briessen, The Way of the Brush: Painting Techniques of China and Japan. Rutland, Vermont: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1962, pp. 111-112.
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The fact that both Juga and Shumadan are in love with Yusi doesn't make the situation any easier. The series lacks dialogue, the characters speak the simple constructed Qumi language with words mostly based on words from Toki Pona, English and Russian, as well as some words and phrases from popular culture. Dynamic plots, crazy adventures and beautiful animation make up for the terseness of the series. The series is set in an abstract reality.
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The Deeds of the Saxons, or Three Books of Annals () is a three-volume chronicle of 10th century Germany written by Widukind of Corvey. Widukind, proud of his people and history, begins his chronicon, not with Rome, but with a brief synopsis derived from the orally-transmitted history of the Saxons, with a terseness that makes his work difficult to interpret. Widukind omits Italian events in tracing the career of Henry the Fowler and he never mentioned a pope.
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The style of St. Optatus is vigorous and animated. He aims at terseness and effect, rather than at flowing periods, and this in spite of the gentleness and charity which is so admirable in his polemics against his "brethren", as he insists on calling the Donatist bishops. He uses Saint Cyprian a great deal, though he refutes his mistaken opinion about baptism, and does not copy his easy style. His descriptions of events are admirable and vivid.
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Stephen Holden, for the New York Times, wrote, "Mr. Morrissey's songs have the force of poetry...a terseness, precision of detail and a tone of laconic understatement that relate his lyrics to the stories of writers like Raymond Carver and Richard Ford." In addition to his song-writing, Morrissey is also the author of two novels: Edson (1996) and Imaginary Runner (posthumously published in November 2011). He said that his writing was influenced by Raymond Carver and Thomas Williams.
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Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press. pp. 188–190. . Robert Palmer, music critic for The New York Times and Rolling Stone, described the Cars' musical style: "they have taken some important but disparate contemporary trends—punk minimalism, the labyrinthine synthesizer and guitar textures of art rock, the 1950s rockabilly revival and the melodious terseness of power pop—and mixed them into a personal and appealing blend." They have also written and recorded hard rock- oriented songs including "You're All I've Got Tonight".
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Maybe it was a natural progression. But it was a funkier groove. It was a new tempo for people north of Watford to get into." In Christgau's Record Guide (1981), Robert Christgau described Brass Construction as a "black-identified" disco band "with lots of funk" and said the album "owes more lyrically to Gil Scott-Heron than to Barry White but evokes both and is candid to the point of wryness (and terseness) about using words primarily for musical color," giving praise to "the way the synthesized violins are timed.
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The two companies had significant differences in culture and vision. Microsoft favored the open hardware system approach that contributed to its success on the PC; IBM sought to use OS/2 to drive sales of its own hardware, including systems that could not support the features Microsoft wanted. Microsoft programmers also became frustrated with IBM's bureaucracy and its use of lines of code to measure programmer productivity. IBM developers complained about the terseness and lack of comments in Microsoft's code, while Microsoft developers complained that IBM's code was bloated.
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Finally, it may be noted that the felibres have often been accused of lack of patriotism towards northern France, of schemes of decentralization, and other heresies; but none of these charges holds good. The spirit of the movement, as represented by its leaders, has never been expressed with greater terseness, force and truth than in the three verses set by Felix Gras at the head of his Carbounié: "I love my village more than thy village; I love my Provence more than thy province; I love France more than all".
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Thus the written style, based on the Old Chinese of the classical period, remained largely static as the various varieties of Chinese developed and diverged to become mutually unintelligible, and all distinct from the written form. Moreover, in response to phonetic attrition the spoken varieties developed compound words and new syntactic forms. In comparison, the literary language was admired for its terseness and economy of expression, but it was difficult to understand if read aloud, even in the local pronunciation. This divergence is a classic example of diglossia.
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A binary protocol is a protocol which is intended to be read by a machine rather than a human being, as opposed to a plain text protocol such as IRC, SMTP, or HTTP/1.1. Binary protocols have the advantage of terseness, which translates into speed of transmission and interpretation. Binary protocol is also used in the context of a protocol between exactly two parties, in contrast to a multi-party protocol. Binary protocol, or binary collaboration have been used in the terminology of standards such as EbXML, HTTP/2 and EDOC.
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As a poet Grimald is memorable as the earliest follower of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey in the production of blank verse. He writes sometimes simply enough, as in the lines on his own childhood addressed to his mother, but in general his style is more artificial, and his metaphors more studied than is the case with the other contributors to the Miscellany. His classical reading shows itself in the comparative terseness and smartness of his verses. Archipropheta or The Archprophet published in 1548, was a Latin drama that depicted the life of John the Bapist.
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This preliminary commentary on the Gita is the earliest example of Madhva's style which is characterised by its terseness and brevity. He quotes from a variety of rare sources and scriptures and is not an exhaustive commentary on the Gita as it concentrates only on a few verses. Madhva establishes the importance of Karma Yoga or the path of duty, which had been previously relegated to a footnote in Advaita. According to Madhva's view, the ultimate knowledge or the Aparoksha Jnana can be attained through a combination of dispassionate discharge of one's duties (Karma Yoga), acquisition of scriptural knowledge (Jnana Yoga) and the unconditional devotion to the higher entity (Bhakti Yoga).
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Only a few of his works originated as piano pieces, though in due course almost all of them were, in his phrase, "dished up" in piano versions. The conductor John Eliot Gardiner describes Grainger as "a true original in terms of orchestration and imaginative instrumentation", whose terseness of expression is reminiscent in style both of the 20th-century Second Viennese School and the Italian madrigalists of the 16th and 17th centuries. Malcolm Gillies, a Grainger scholar, writes of Grainger's style that "you know it is 'Grainger' when you have heard about one second of a piece". The music's most individual characteristic, Gillies argues, is its texture – "the weft of the fabric", according to Grainger.
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Similarly, dynamically typed languages, especially interpreted ones, usually offer genericity by default as both passing values to functions and value assignment are type-indifferent and such behavior is often utilized for abstraction or code terseness, however this is not typically labeled genericity as it's a direct consequence of dynamic typing system employed by the language. The term has been used in functional programming, specifically in Haskell-like languages, which use a structural type system where types are always parametric and the actual code on those types is generic. These usages still serve a similar purpose of code-saving and the rendering of an abstraction. Arrays and structs can be viewed as predefined generic types.
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In Boileau for the first time appeared terseness and vigour of expression, with perfect regularity of verse structure. His admiration for Molière found expression in the stanzas addressed to him (1663) and in the second satire (1664). In 1664 or 1665, he composed his prose Dialogue sur les héros de roman, a satire on the elaborate romances of the time, which may be said to have once for all abolished the lucubrations of La Calprenède, Mlle de Scudéry and their fellows. Though fairly widely read in manuscript and also released in an unauthorized edition in 1668, the book was not published till 1713, out of regard, it is said, for Mlle de Scudéry.
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In the assessment of medievalist Nora Chadwick, "the tale is told with brilliant narrative power": its terseness, humour and laconic brevity is reminiscent of the best of the Icelandic sagas. The dialogue is particularly masterly in its "understatement and crisp repartee", with "the utmost condensation and economy" in its choice of words. "[I]n the few remarks made by Mac Da Thó to his visitors, all his previous train of thought, all his cunning and address, are suggested in a few brief words intended by him to hide his true designs from his guests, while suggesting to ourselves his hidden intention." In spite of the literary finish of the surviving written versions, the tale remains one to be told orally.
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The mystery surrounding Morgaine is increased by the fact that, perhaps uniquely among Cherryh’s major protagonists, we never see the action through her eyes. The story is told almost entirely through the eyes of her vassal Nhi Vanye, whose fear, respect and awe of Morgaine, combined with her terseness, secrecy and reserve, help to cloak her origins, her purposes or her motivations. Nhi Vanye, her faithful vassal and companion, is the illegitimate son of one of the lords of Andur- Kursh, whose culture views as black magic the advanced technology with which, and against which, Morgaine makes war. Outcast as a brother-slayer from his own land, he is ilin, a masterless, homeless warrior akin to the Japanese ronin, when they first meet.
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The first woman also becomes the object of accusations ascribed to Rabbi Joshua of Siknin, according to whom Eve, despite the divine efforts, turned out to be "swelled-headed, coquette, eavesdropper, gossip, prone to jealousy, light-fingered and gadabout" (Genesis Rabbah 18:2). A similar set of charges appears in Genesis Rabbah 17:8, according to which Eve's creation from Adam's rib rather than from the earth makes her inferior to Adam and never satisfied with anything. # Third, and despite the terseness of the biblical text in this regard, the erotic iniquities attributed to Eve constitute a separate category of her shortcomings. Told in Genesis 3:16 that "your desire shall be for your husband", she is accused by the Rabbis of having an overdeveloped sexual drive (Genesis Rabhah 20:7) and constantly enticing Adam (Genesis Rabbab 23:5).
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The acai in the Sangam poems are combined to form a cir (foot), while the cir are connected to form a talai, while the line is referred to as the ati. The sutras of the Tolkappiyam – particularly after sutra 315 – state the prosody rules, enumerating the 34 component parts of ancient Tamil poetry. The prosody of an example early Sangam poem is illustrated by Kuruntokai: The prosodic pattern in this poem follows the 4-4-3-4 feet per line, according to akaval, also called aciriyam, Sangam meter rule: A literal translation of Kuruntokai 119: English interpretation and translation of Kuruntokai 119: This metrical pattern, states Zvelebil, gives the Sangam poetry a "wonderful conciseness, terseness, pithiness", then an inner tension that is resolved at the end of the stanza. The metrical patterns within the akaval meter in early Sangam poetry has minor variations.
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The Res gestae saxonicae are significant historical accounts of the times of Otto the Great and Henry the Fowler, modelled on the works of the Roman historian Sallust and the deuterocanonical Books of the Maccabees. Widukind wrote as a Saxon, proud of his people and history, beginning his narration not with the Roman Empire but with a brief synopsis derived from the orally-transmitted history of the Saxons and their struggles with the Franks, with a terseness that makes his work difficult to interpret. Widukind of Corvey starts with the wars between Theuderich I, King of Austrasia, and the Thuringii, in which the Saxons played a large part. An allusion to the conversion of the Saxons to Christianity under Charlemagne brings him to the early Saxon dukes and details of the reign of Henry the Fowler, whose campaigns are referred to in some detail.
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Finally, based on its usage of formulaic language similar to that found in the Anyang oracle bone inscriptions and a new hypothesis on the circumstances of its authorship, David Nivison proposed that "Gaozong Rongri" was written or recorded by a descendant of Prince Zu Ji () sometime between 1140 and 1100 BCE, likely during the reign of Wu Yi (). He notes the terseness of the text (only 82 characters) and the fact that its authorship and message were already being misconstrued by the Spring and Autumn period as evidence supporting the assertion an early date of authorship. The chapters dealing with the legendary emperors, the Xia dynasty and the transition to Shang are very similar in language to such classics as The Mencius (late 4th century BC). They present idealized rulers, with the earlier political concerns subordinate to moral and cosmological theory, and are believed to be the products of philosophical schools of the late Warring States period.
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It is accurate, and > often lively, and although it does not attempt to imitate the terseness of > Latin, it avoids prolixity. As part of his book Holland translated two other > substantial works – an ancient epitome of Roman history which provides an > outline of the lost books of Livy, and Bartolomeo Marliani's guide to the > topography of Rome – as well as some smaller texts. These were taken from > the edition of Livy published in Paris in 1573; by translating them, Holland > was making available in English a great learned compendium of historical > knowledge, not simply a single ancient author. In 1601 Holland published in two folios "an equally huge translation" from Latin, Pliny the Elder's The Historie of the World, dedicated to Sir Robert Cecil, then the Queen's Principal Secretary. This was perhaps the most popular of Holland's translations.. Considine says of it: > This encyclopaedia of ancient knowledge about the natural world had already > had a great indirect influence in England, as elsewhere in Europe, but had > not been translated into English before, and would not be again for 250 > years.
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