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Meanings of briefness in English
Synonyms
Examples for "brevity"
Examples for "brevity"
1
The tones were gruff, and almost Indian-like in the brevity of expression.
2
And then with equal brevity, I outlined the case against Victoria Garrison.
3
But the attribution may be due to the brevity of the narrative.
4
The record, of course, consisted in the brevity of her two-inch tail.
5
The single thing I work to attain in any gag is brevity.
1
The transience of students puts pressure on teachers and classes, she said.
2
The transience of the contents of art may be of two kinds.
3
He'd seen threads himself, watched their fluidity, and marveled at their transience.
4
Now that he was out of the service, he continued the transience.
5
As permanence becomes a possibility, pride in transience starts to look questionable.
Usage of briefness in English
1
The briefness of the lucifers was merciful or merciless, as you like.
2
But his counterplea when it came was of a disconcerting briefness and potency.
3
It was written practically during the battle, so you must excuse its apparent briefness.
4
Then suddenly the reply, beautiful in its briefness, but at the same time explaining everything.
5
The minister performed the ceremony with that briefness which consideration for a wounded person required.
6
The men holding the hatch-cover seemed perplexed, puzzled no doubt by the briefness of the ceremony.
7
And briefness does but raise thy worth.
8
And he made a speech which for expressive briefness surpasses anything I've ever heard, before or since:
9
Terry eyed him with withering briefness.
10
This gives one a realizing sense of the frailness of a Mississippi boat and the briefness of its life.
11
In treating of the second portion of the first half of the book, 'Cloud Beauty,' briefness is now indispensable.
12
I will be briefness itself.
13
The very briefness of that order should have been warning enough, but Joe found it impossible to keep to himself his disapproval.
14
It was nervous, tingling work, for as surely as I sensed his intention of briefness, just as surely had he sensed mine.
15
Coming from the lips of her father, Steve accepted gravely, with a matching briefness that could not hide a surge of triumph.
16
Be that my excuse for the briefness of this; but do not fail, my dear dear Anna, to write fully every thing that passes.
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Briefness through the time