Sentence examples for A brevity from inspiring English sources
Twitter's 140-character format enforces a brevity of expression that fosters enormous creativity.
It is new territory for Williams, with a brevity and a strict whimsy you might encounter in Lydia Davis's work.
Strachey, however, announced that he would write lives with "a brevity which excludes everything that is redundant and nothing that is significant," whether flattering to the subject or not.
He's spent his life producing some of the most extraordinary songs ever written, songs of astonishing complexity, layers upon layers, with a brevity of observation that could shame the great novelists.
English biographer and critic who opened a new era of biographical writing at the close of World War I. Adopting an irreverent attitude to the past and especially to the monumental life-and-letters volumes of Victorian biography, Strachey proposed to write lives with "a brevity which excludes everything that is redundant and nothing that is significant".
Each issue was supposed to contain a hundred articles, none more than four hundred words, a brevity accomplished, generally, by writing badly: in Time, you couldn't say something happened "in the nick of time"; you had to say it happened "in time's nick," a savings of three words.
For those with less of a passion for brevity, a more traditional health services focus, and desire for a statement of what we study as well as why we study it, the following might be preferable.
He had hit him right if ever I saw a boxer hit right, with a classic brevity and conciseness.
Like a series of epigrams, the music has a masterly brevity: when the information runs out, so does the song.
Timeliness is a must; brevity will improve your chances; stylishness and wit will win my heart.
