Sentence examples for a brief phrase from inspiring English sources

And Goya's print series is not a narrative: each image, captioned with a brief phrase lamenting the wickedness of the invaders and the monstrousness of the suffering they inflicted, stands independent of the others.

In comments on Thursday here, Secretary of State Colin L. Powell said that the United States-China relationship was too complex to encapsulate in a brief phrase, and he praised China's officials for "enlightened leadership".

Once the deflation of Kiev and the excitement of the meeting with Lakoff had worn off, I wrote to Quijada and asked if there might be a brief phrase in Ithkuil to summarize the journey that he and his language have taken during the past year.

Freeman's art is brainy and beautiful, but it's hard to encapsulate in a brief phrase, which he says is the point; he has only occasionally shown his art in galleries because he doesn't want to have to think about building a brand.

Using dream incubation for problem solving, Dr. Barrett, the author of "The Committee of Sleep," which expanded on her initial research, asks patients to write down a problem as a brief phrase or sentence and place the note next to the bed.

I went through a brief phrase in late elementary school where I stopped watching television.

I thought her voice sounded thin throughout -- when the backup singers sang "just a child" that brief phrase had more distinctiveness than anything Siobhan was doing.

He gives Franz a few brief phrases to sing, but otherwise this is a spoken part, handled convincingly by Dana Watkins.

That brief phrase was an anomaly.

The group's songs were minimalism with a rock beat, starting with just one brief phrase and piling on more and more, along with filtered, robotic vocal chants like "Stereo rock 'n' roll".

During the campaign, Placek said, he began to understand how words could make ideas salable — especially when those ideas were compressed into a brief, memorable phrase.