Sentence examples for a brief rather from inspiring English sources

After a brief, rather unlikely, stint as a fashion photographer working under Alexey Brodovitch, an art director at Harper's Bazaar, he hit the road.

From a stage set up at a roundabout, Jokowi thanked his supporters in a brief, rather flat speech.Prabowo Subianto (pictured left) held his rally at Bung Karno stadium, which seats more than 80,000.

There was a brief, rather tense time of waiting after he made the pitch, but then one evening he phoned me, voice shaking with excitement, saying we had the official permission to proceed.

While MI was developed to be a brief rather than sustained intervention, it may be particularly useful as a component of obesity treatment programmes.

Therefore, alterations in the dynamics of β-AR function in type 2 diabetes and obesity, particularly during anaesthesia, may be reflected more by a briefer, rather than smaller, response.

If that club was punished it would reasonably give a man with a big brain a big brief rather than cede the points.

In this study, patients indicate a desire for "brief" rather than "full" written instructions.

This may reflect that cells are resistant to greater temperatures following a brief treatment rather than under prolonged exposure, and possibly to a greater reliance on established (constitutive) rather than inducible functions to survive sudden heat shock.

Does that point to a brief stoppage rather than a protracted one?

One day, he reminisced about working as a caddie in the Catskills, when he was a teen-ager, and offered a brief and rather capricious history of golf.

And that is not a strategy with longevity, suggesting that this current fascination with women's breasts is really just a brief flirtation rather than a new relationship.