"brief elaboration" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when you need to provide a concise explanation of something. For example, "I will provide a brief elaboration of the underlying causes of the issue."
"Though he knows he's really nothing/But the brief elaboration of a tube". What "tube" refers to is anybody's guess — a corporeal being?
That costume is the Earthly Leonard, in his suit and fedora, "who knows he's really nothing but the brief elaboration of a tube".
A song from four years ago, "Going Home," made clear his sense of limits: "He will speak these words of wisdom / Like a sage, a man of vision / Though he knows he's really nothing / But the brief elaboration of a tube".
Before presenting the simulation results, we first give a brief elaboration on system level simulation.
Intentionalist accounts of pleasure are less well known than phenomenalist accounts, so they merit brief elaboration on several points.
This paper is arranged as follows: Section II gives a brief elaboration on the existing schemes available for LTE networks packet scheduling.
Furthermore, the brief elaborations the Chinese students supplied regarding the reason they avoid clothing related to issues of personal identity, with no mention of social or cultural motivations for doing so.
The board also included in its briefing, without elaboration, the fact that the crew had switched the autopilot on soon after takeoff, but then flew the plane for an hour and 53 minutes without it.
In June , 1987 she was invited to Libya, the brief said without elaboration.
In the copepods (e.g., sea lice, Cyclops) and the amphipods (e.g., beach fleas), the sexes are mostly separate, copulation is brief and without elaboration, and the female of both groups broods the fertilized eggs.
Subsequently, a brief description of the data, elaboration of the econometric framework, presentation and discussion of the empirical findings, and summary are provided.
