For our purposes here, they may be embodied in a few brief lines.
I took notes in brief lines of verse — observations, anecdotes, humors, terrors.
There are brief lines of dialogue in the "Spellbound" dream sequence, but its more important elements are visual, as in most dreams.
Another, presumably a female scribe, describes a young man in four brief lines: He's a heart, He's an acorn from an oak tree, He's young.
The music is transparent and repetitive, a steely contrapuntal cage of brief lines for guitars and synthesizers, developing through subtly manipulated textures.
The reference could easily be missed and so a painter, with four brief lines in red, has brought the tiny mammoth nearer.
Geldray was sometimes given a few brief lines of his own to utter, only to be interrupted on air by the Goons' manic humour.
The rage was sparked by a few brief lines buried deep within a long and closely reasoned address given by the German Pope to the University of Regensburg in Germany, where he had once been a professor.
Standing with her in her kitchen as she moved back and forth, the brief lines of her legs, her narrow hips, straight back and small jaw were, for the first time, not abstracted for me into an image.
The three works, from the late 1970s and early 80s, started with flautist Hannah Grayson in Vermont Counterpoint, swapping flute for alto flute or piccolo and weaving brief lines into the thick texture of her own multitrack prerecording.
It remains one of the most moving songs ever written about drug abuse, sketching in a few brief lines the dark hinterland of depression which lies behind so many addicted lives, and the lure of narcotic oblivion: "Through ages man's desires/ To free his mind, to release his very soul/ Has proved to all who live/ That death itself is freedom for evermore".
