Sentence examples for brief brush from inspiring English sources

"We all come into the game as enthusiastic excited young people," says Ratcliffe, who experienced a brief brush with depression after he retired.

Mr. Heiskell, who lacked a college degree despite a brief brush with Harvard and, later, its business school, described with pride and satisfaction being elected a Harvard overseer and then spending 10 years on the seven-man Harvard Corporation.

So news that the almost veteran rocker Dave Grohl also recently had a brief brush with the guitar-clad Grim Reaper was inevitably a cause for concern over at Pandora HQ.

Weaver had her own brief brush with targeted online campaigning earlier this year, when the synopsis for Tomboy, a forthcoming movie that was later renamed [re]Assignment, was criticised by some as transphobic.

Lately, though, a kind of analog has emerged: shocking blue, a bright electric blue that is a far cry from the navy suits and light-blue business shirts of traditional men's wear (as well as the name of a short-lived bizarre Dutch rock group that had a brief brush with fame in 1970 with its excellent No. 1 Billboard Hot 100 hit "Venus").

These moors can feel cloaked in gloaming in summer, more so in winter; but there's also a magic to be found at this time of year, particularly when the low winter sun lifts itself over the summits of the tors, blackens the skyline into a silhouette and throws a vivid, if brief, brush of colour across the foreground.

Beginning in the 1970s, when Mr. Pekar, a longtime file clerk at a Veterans Affairs hospital, started writing American Splendor at the suggestion of the cartoonist R. Crumb, he enjoyed brief brushes with fame, and was a recurring guest on "Late Night With David Letterman" in the 1980s.

Knight has a public rap sheet of strangers who regretted their brief brushes with him: the police officer he dissed in Puerto Rico, the fan he stuffed into a garbage can at the Final Four, the kid he cussed in Indiana, to say nothing of players, referees and school officials he savaged.

The director who makes a fantastic movie, but never comes close to duplicating the feat; the quarterback who has an excellent season or two, and then fades into obscurity; the one-hit wonder who follows up a stellar debut album with a string of failures all of them may have brief brushes with greatness.

Russia has subsequently begun its biggest war games in decades, with combined force operations appearing to send simultaneous signals to ally China (there are longstanding Russian fears of China grabbing border territory, and the two countries fought a very brief brush-fire war in 1969), Japan, and of course the US.

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