Sentence examples for calls brief from inspiring English sources
I deliberately kept our calls brief to minimize my chances of saying something that might antagonize him.
Keep phone calls brief, and text only when necessary.
The pressure is there, the time is much shorter, but the principle is the same — lining up the calls, briefing the candidate, e-mails, op-eds, statements".
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 made the call brief and pretty much said, 'I'm at 35,000 feet and I'm calling you,' " Mr. Thevenot said.
"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".
