Terse (polish, brusqueness) & Succinct (originally) ***

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–adjective 

1. neatly or effectively concise; brief and pithy (簡潔有力的), as [language]. 

2. abruptly concise; curt; brusque.  



—Synonyms 

1. succinct, compact, neat, concentrated. 1, 2. See concise.



pithy, compendious, laconic. Concise, succinct, terse all refer to speech or writing that uses few words to say much.





Concise usually implies that unnecessary details or verbiage (冗詞) have been eliminated from a more wordy statement: a concise summary of the speech. 



↑ Succinct, on the other hand, implies that the message is as originally composed and is expressed in as few words as possible: a succinct statement of the problem. 





Terse sometimes suggests brevity (簡練,短暫) combined with wit or polish to produce particularly effective expression: a terse, almost aphoristic, style. 



It may also suggest brusqueness or curtness: a terse reply that was almost rude. 



aphoristic

格言(似)的,警句(似)的





　

Back story: The actor-writer has refused to promote "Hulk" – a deafening silence for a tent-pole film like this – outside of 



issuinga a terse 257-word [statement] 



to Entertainment Weekly. It recasts the so-called "dispute" between Marvel/Universal and himself and Leterrier as a media misrepresentation that’s really a "collaboration" in which the principal parties have simply agreed to disagree. Thanks for clarifying, Ed.