Always briefed, always punctual, always impeccably neat, always selling, Romney seemed to regard the tricky politics of the Republican party — an increasingly unlikely coalition of business interests and social-issue populists — as a problem to be solved.
The hardline stand against reporter's privilege -- the DOJ briefs always put the term in quotation marks -- is a hallmark of the Obama administration's unprecedented crackdown over leaks.
Not that the process of being photographed by Jane, though brief, was always painless.
But I am grateful to them both for the message, more implied than explicit, that love is love and that true happiness, however brief, is always possible.
All that is required is an understanding that you can only achieve true value through public notoriety, and that such notoriety, however brief, will always be worth more than a lifetime of obscurity.
He is a quasi-mythical figure in Mexico, the subject of countless ballads, who has outlived enemies and accomplices alike, defying the implicit bargain of a life in the drug trade: that careers are glittering but brief and always terminate in prison or the grave.
But there is an equally important individual interest--and, by extension, individual right--that every American is entitled to: "The right to marry," the Prop 8 plaintiffs write in their brief, "has always been based on, and defined by, the constitutional liberty to select the partner of one's choice".
Don't be rude, but be brief and always on a hurry.
Family visits were always brief.
Our swims were always brief.
