10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TERSENESS»
Discover the use of
terseness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
terseness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Mercer Dictionary of the Bible
Literature in which balanced parallelism and terseness are perceived to be
predominant. Since biblical poetry lacks features that mark classical verse as
poetry, such as quantitative meter and regular rhyme, parallelism within and
between ...
Watson E. Mills, Roger Aubrey Bullard, 1990
2
The Book of Proverbs: Chapters 1-15
FORMS OF PROVERBS A. POETRY Aside from the editorial superscriptions, all
the lines (or verses)1 are composed according to the restraints that characterize
biblical poetry — that is, terseness, imagery, and parallelism.2 As a result of ...
3
XML and SQL: Developing Web Applications
Terseness in XML markup is of minimal importance. This tenth requirement
speaks volumes and represents the fundamental shift that the information
science and computer industry have gone through during the 1980s and 1990s.
At the dawn ...
Daniel K. Appelquist, 2002
For example, if you're writing a subroutine to set a global flag, don't write: sub
set_terseness { my ($terseness) ... $terseness; } If the subroutine isn't supposed
to return a meaningful value, make it do so explicitly: sub set_terseness { my ...
5
An Introduction to the Old Testament
In rare instances, particularly in some of the prophets, it is difficult to tell whether
the passage is poetic or highly stylized prose. Terseness. The leading
characteristic of poetry is terseness or conciseness. While prose is composed of
sentences ...
Literature in which balanced PARAllELISM and terseness are perceived to be
predominant. Biblical poetry lacks features that mark classical verse as poetry,
such as quantitative meter and regular rhyme; parallelism within and between
lines ...
Watson E. Mills, Richard F. Wilson, 2000
7
The Dynamics of Biblical Parallelism
quantity, for large amounts can be found in prose, but also a factor of the
terseness which tends to produce phonetic and syntactic balance in parallel lines
. As we will see shortly, parallelism appears to be the constructive principle on
which a ...
8
The North British Review
French are still as remarkable for their terseness, and the English for their
redundancy and prolixity, as when Madame de Stael pointed out the latter as our
worst fault. Jeffrey was most unfortunate when he met this criticism by citing
Hume and ...
9
The Jewish Bible: A JPS Guide
The rhythm of biblical poetry results in part from the terseness of parallel lines,
the fact that the lines of biblical poetry tend to be short and comprise about the
same number of words and stresses. Several trends contribute to the terseness of
...
The Jewish Publication Society, 2010
10
Understanding the Hebrew Bible: A Reader's Guide
An examination of other biblical poems would reveal numerous additional ways
that b complements and furthers the message stated in a. In Chapter 2 on
storytelling, we saw that terseness is an important characteristic of all biblical
writing.
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TERSENESS»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
terseness is used in the context of the following news items.
It's Hemingway's Birthday: A Reflection In Notes
Unfortunately, even though it features his trademark terseness, the apocryphal six-word sentence may not be Hemingway's. If it is, he probably cribbed it from ... «UPROXX, Jul 15»
'Ant-Man' movie review -- 3.5 stars
Unsurprisingly, Douglas gives a strong performance, playing perfectly against Lilly's terseness and Stoll's mixture of brazen cockiness and menace. Peña is a ... «amNY, Jul 15»
Kenny Williams focused on Chicago, but Toronto remains a possibility
That made the terseness of Williams' statements more understandable. Perhaps Reinsdorf will give the Blue Jays another chance to pursue Williams, this time ... «South Side Sox, Jul 15»
Booze-less Christmas functions? In support of drinking at work parties
Suddenly you find the guy in IT, whose enthusiasm for getting dressed-up in medieval outfits is always met with icy terseness, tells you about his fondness for ... «WA today, Jul 15»
Cannes Film Review: 'In the Shadow of Women'
... focused romantic drama that exudes the narrative terseness of a good short story and the lucid craftsmanship of a filmmaker in full command of the medium. «Variety, May 15»
Sempiternity by Kenneth Birlin
While poetry is expression without rules of grammar, I am a devotee of Strunk and White's “Elements of Style,” a bible of terseness. Like the pleasure of Mary ... «Daily Press, May 15»
The resignation of Bishop Finn
The terseness of the Vatican's official statement on the resignation of Kansas City, Mo., Bishop Robert Finn was in direct proportion to its gravity. This morning, as ... «National Catholic Reporter, Apr 15»
To celebrate Anthony Trollope's 200th anniversary, writers choose …
But in Cousin Henry he writes with a gripping terseness – I noticed one page that contained scarcely a word of more than one syllable. Trollope's special ... «The Guardian, Apr 15»
Column: Tiger Is Back, and Now the Fun Begins
... surprise of the week so far, he actually smiled and tried to be engaging at his press conference, something he normally tolerates with a guarded terseness. «New York Times, Apr 15»
How I (Sort Of) Replaced Twitter With a Diary
“As the frequency of expression grows, the force of expression diminishes: Digital expectations of alacrity and terseness confer the highest prestige upon the ... «Flavorwire, Feb 15»
