Briefly Seen is a play on words referring to photographs that are briefly seen slivers of time captured when the shutter opens and closes to produce a record of instants never to be seen again.
She might be briefly seen hovering in the wings, in conversation with anxious flunkeys.
Aside from the dead best friend, who is briefly seen in flashbacks, none of them ever seem particularly happy.
(He also resembles her father, as briefly seen in a photograph. Try not to think about that).
In the 1956 film "And God Created Woman," he is briefly seen teaching Brigitte Bardot to dance the mambo.
(We never learn which party Cole belongs to, though he is briefly seen looking at a letter from the Democratic National Committee).
And the musical version of the 1968 movie (with Lee Remick, Eileen Heckart, Rod Steiger and George Segal) was briefly seen Off Broadway nine years later.
Rachel and Jen say they're her best friends, though Ella has only briefly seen them in passing in the school corridors.
Although he is briefly seen nipping Jack Daniels, the narrator of "Nocturne," Adam Rapp's stricken soliloquy of a play, doesn't find much solace in liquor.
John breaks her heart, just as she broke her father's, by falling in love with a wild girl (Ellen Page, too briefly seen) of whom she disapproves.
