Sentence examples for brief but significant from inspiring English sources

The letter, brief but significant, was from Eliot himself.

In that story, Phoebe makes a brief, but significant, appearance at the end.

Before depressing you further, let me offer a brief but significant note on etymology.

It's brief but significant — like pit stops in stock car racing — where time is lost or gained.

For one brief but significant spasm, Cairo became Homs under Bashar Assad's Republican Guard or Benghazi under Muammar Gaddafi's loyalists.

Land tends to appear as a brief but significant punctuation mark, like a dash between two statements.

The Other Transatlantic is attuned to the brief but historically significant moment in the postwar period between 1950 and 1970 when the trajectories of the Eastern European art scenes on the one hand, and their Latin American counterparts on the other, converged in a shared enthusiasm for kinetic and op art.

A sterile water injection, administered either intradermally or subcutaneously, causes osmotic and mechanical irritation resulting in a brief (15 30 second) but significant stinging sensation that is generally well tolerated by women.

After the 1948 executive order desegregating the armed forces, the building served as an integrated club and its brief, but to many, significant role in the history of military segregation was nearly lost to time.

Sparklehorse frontman Mark Linkous may have narrowly avoided limb amputation, as well as overcoming 9/11 angst, chronic depression, years of prolific mainlining and a brief yet significant death to be here this evening, but he sure hasn't come through the other end smiling.

But immediately after April 9th, when the statue of Saddam Hussein was pulled down, the entries turn brief: "Nothing significant to report, stayed at airport all day doing maintenance and recovery operations".