curt
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A curt “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” reunion featuring David Boreanaz and Sarah Michelle Gellar failed to mention recently lost castmates Anthony Head, Nicholas Brendon and Michelle Trachtenberg by name.
From Salon ● Sep. 15, 2026
Wall Street is still getting familiar with Warsh’s curt style and dislike of providing forward guidance.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 27, 2026
A few unnecessarily curt speech interruptions threatened the calm, but mainly, this was a smoothly run machine of a show, devoid of mishaps.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 16, 2026
The intelligence chief’s curt, deadpan delivery has helped popularize the work of the military intelligence agency, known as HUR, with the public using Budanov’s interviews for widely circulated memes on social media mocking Russia.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 2, 2026
He kept the chaplain in a constant state of terror with his curt, derisive tongue and his knowing, cynical eyes that the chaplain was never brave enough to meet for more than an accidental second.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
Karim gave a curt reply in Russian, which the soldier returned with an even curter retort.
From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini
The woman’s voice was curter, and the uninviting muzzle of a bull-terrier was thrust out between the door and the woman’s skirts.
From Seven Miles to Arden by Ruth Sawyer
Saxham's patients found him even curter and more brusque in manner than usual that evening, and the article for the Scientific Review made little way.
From The Dop Doctor by Richard Dehan
Frederick was younger than the other men too; but his manner was, if anything, curter.
From The Happy End by Joseph Hergesheimer
And he became curter and curter, as he noticed the new deference which even Clara practised towards him.
From Clayhanger by Arnold Bennett
Luis Enrique thought for a couple of seconds, looked straight back at the questioner, and gave the curtest of replies.
From Fox News ● Jul. 5, 2021
He came from behind a sea of maps to grant the curtest interview I have ever had.
From Time Magazine Archive
Jeanne passed her arm through the newcomer's and with the curtest of nods to her late companion, disappeared through an open doorway.
From Jeanne of the Marshes by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim
The elevator man made her the curtest of bows and proceeded to arrange matters with a rapidity which almost took her breath away.
From Masters of the Wheat-Lands by Harold Bindloss
If they enquired how he had fared he growled the curtest of answers, and showed plainly that their polite interest in his doings was not desired by him.
From Maid of the Mist by John Oxenham
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