Sentence examples for call brief from inspiring English sources

"I made the call brief and pretty much said, 'I'm at 35,000 feet and I'm calling you,' " Mr. Thevenot said.

Sources told Fox Chicago Tuesday that Jackson planned to hold a conference call briefing his Chicago- and D.C.-based staff concerning his political future at 10 a.m.

In 2007, the U.A.W. called brief strikes at Chrysler and G.M. before reaching agreements.

We had a G.I. weekly, a strategic Air Force magazine called Brief.

Like its forerunners, "Doctor Atomic" deals with what the critic Michael Steinberg has called "brief but emblematic events in recent history".

I deliberately kept our calls brief to minimize my chances of saying something that might antagonize him.

"The preliminary diagnosis he received is called brief reactive psychosis, an acute state brought on by extreme exhaustion, stress and dehydration," Danica Russell said.

Whenever a major artistic figure departs, whatever remains of the intellectual press fills up with a genre of reminiscence that might be called "Brief Encounters with Genius".

But in October he played at Joe's Pub in Manhattan with a longtime collaborator, the bassist Danny Thompson, in a performance that Jon Pareles of The New York Times called "brief yet heartening".

The director of the viral video about brutal African warlord Joseph Kony has been diagnosed with what's called brief reactive psychosis and is expected to stay in hospital for weeks, his wife said on Wednesday.

Some pieces such as "Captive Saint" he called "superficially pretty, but that's really it", while the remixes of music pieces by Uematsu he called "brief, but awful".