terseness

But both the terseness of the network’s announcement and the timing of it — so shortly after Fox News reached a $787.5 million settlement with Dominion Voting Systems in its defamation lawsuit — are difficult to ignore.

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

And the work’s general pessimism seems better suited to its original terseness than to more epic scale.

“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.

In suspense, terseness and economy, they belong together.