Sentence examples for brisk book from inspiring English sources

It's an entertaining, brisk book.

"Drama" is a brisk book, packed with funny stories.

Zuckoff is no fabulist, though, and in this brisk book he narrates the tense yet peaceful five weeks during 1945 that three plane crash survivors spent immersed "in a world that time didn't forget.

Infidelity and romantic disconnection pervade the fourteen stories in this brisk book, which ranges from a tale of familial dissolution on a lunar colony in 1989 to a factory that manufactures Karmic Boomerangs in a place called Australindia.

In this brisk book, a Harvard law professor uses George Lucas's cinematic phenomenon to tackle such disparate topics as the creative process, the writing of constitutional law, and why people commit terrorist acts.

(There's even a "Yowzah!") His is a brisk, rollicking book, history as chatty, intimate conversation.

As the title of Turner's brisk, poignant book suggests, it's the story of how Grahame, one of the most celebrated (and, to my mind, one of the best) movie actors of the nineteen-fifties, ended up being nursed through her final illness by him and his pleasantly unexceptional, warmly conventional working-class English family (who offer an extraordinary breadth of generosity and depth of emotion).

In this brisk and provocative book, Justice Breyer, appointed to the Supreme Court in 1994, calls for judicial restraint and suggests that the best forum for resolving crucial national questions is legislatures, not the courts.

Churchill was not alone in his opposition to Hitler during what he called his wilderness years, and therein lies the strength of Lynne Olson's brisk, engaging new book, "Troublesome Young Men".

A brisk, clever new book, "The Invisible Hook" (Princeton; $24.95), by Peter T. Leeson, an economist who claims to have owned a pirate skull ring as a child and to have had supply-and-demand curves tattooed on his right biceps when he was seventeen, offers a different approach.

The polite chatter momentarily gave way to the brisk ritual of book-signing.