Sentence examples for brief as a from inspiring English sources

"His Illegal Self" is written in very short chapters, some as brief as a single page.

It is always peremptory: as Jesus pictured it, as brief as a farmer ripping weeds out of a field.

Her husband, Henry Hodge, was a solicitor who gave Cherie Blair her first brief as a barrister.

Her speech is as elegant as a little black dress and as brief as a pair of pants.

Few of us know what it's like to experience a moment, however brief, as a sporting god.

At nine pages, it is longer than most of Davis's works, which are typically between three and four; many are as brief as a paragraph, or a sentence.

— Reggie Davis, General Counsel for Zynga Inc. "I received the retro brief as an amendment of the brief.

She sees the brief as an important statement, as it is coming out of an office that is renowned for its prohibitionist stance.

"They gave me a brief as thick as a telephone directory," he said.

But Cyril Almeida, a columnist at Dawn, saw the briefing as a "positive move".

Some have greeted the demise of News In Briefs as a victory of sorts.