The play notches no new dramatic ground for the author, but it is tersely written and performed.

The Commentary is an informative expatiation of Paulus' tersely written text, elaborating on practices and sources.

The tales are told straightforwardly but emotionally, with a tersely written, stentorian narration.

The Admiralty sent Hut 8 a tersely written memorandum, urging it to pay "a little more attention" to Shark and complaining that the Battle of the Atlantic was the only area where Bletchley was having no impact.

The City Council passed the original, tersely written law in 1982.

In general, though, sentences are tersely written.

But from the beginning of her tersely written speech, Ms. Molinari, who is 38, made it clear that she would hardly be tame in making the case that Mr. Dole would make a better President than Mr. Clinton.

He systematically reviews and evaluates a large body of research literature on the homeless and, in less than 200 pages of tersely written and tightly argued text, he deftly leads the reader through a maze of assertions.

Describing it as "tersely written, handsomely produced and played to perfection", the New York Times declared it "one of the best to come from the Warner studios."