Wright's brief utterances, with their asyntactic bits and trailings-off, suggest a respect for silence akin to a spiritual discipline, as if human speech measured poorly against a divine wordlessness.
Atonality, although well-suited for relatively brief musical utterances of great rhetorical or emotional intensity, proved unable to sustain large-scale musical events.
Tics are similar to dystonia, but they consist of brief movements or utterances of unknown cause.
In public, Silva has kept her utterances to a brief and emotional statement of condolences to the Campos family and regret about the passing of a political partner she described as "full of joy, of dreams, of commitment".
We investigated the hypothesis that individual differences in creative cognition can be manifest even in brief responses, such as single-word utterances.
The Court of Appeals, the state's highest court, has ruled that for a course of conduct to have "no legitimate purpose" it must have no thoughts or ideas besides threats, intimidation or "coercive utterances," Mr. Siegel said in a written brief.
In sum, we have demonstrated that individual differences in creativity can indeed be reliably assessed from thin slices (i.e., brief samples) of behavior, such as single-word utterances.
The only public utterance that Mr. Chirac has made about the unrest was a brief statement televised live on Sunday that expressed faith in republican values and a determination to restore order.
This definition is so broad as "to include virtually every corporate utterance," the three leading advertising industry trade associations tell the justices in a brief for Nike.
Truncated utterance: "Erm.
