In fact, as pointed out recently by Democratic activist Julie Roginsky, when the Democratic National Committee held its winter meeting recently, it broke down into terse arguments about policy.

There was then a terse verbal exchange with Siraj who, rather bizarrely given India's predicament, opted to give Head a send-off.

The body camera footage showed Hill at times being terse with police, telling an officer "don't knock on my window like that".

For instance, a terse July 29 email from the Weld County Department of Public Health and Environment in Colorado said, “Currently attempting to monitor 26 dairies. 9 have refused.”

This week, her father got a terse letter from the defence ministry in Moscow informing him that Victoria was dead, aged 27.