Sentence examples for is brief for from inspiring English sources

Tool has a long attention span; seven minutes is brief for a Tool composition.

Dormancy is brief for some seeds, for example those of certain short-lived annual plants.

"Macbeth" is brief for Shakespeare, and its "fierce engagement between the mind and its guilt," to quote the critic Frank Kermode, gives it energy.

Thus, we can now understand why the expansion phase is brief (for about 1 h), although the S M dynamo may still operating after the expansion phase (Figs. 7 and 8).

The playoffs will be brief for the MetroStars unless they become more productive.

Her glory was brief, for we learned during our wait for Spitz to show up that the Olympic Village had been murderously invaded.

"I'm going to be brief, for I just got off a plane and I've been going since before sahari" — the predawn Ramadan meal — "almost twenty-four hours".

This hint of the cardinal's sly wit, often employed in homilies and at intimate gatherings, was brief; for the most part, he fulfilled his reputation for directness.

But the parting was brief, for Rebekah Brooks was soon back in charge of the papers, and James Murdoch is running Sky again (over the objections of half the independent shareholders).

If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams.

His period in command was brief, for on 22 November he, like other brigadier generals, was replaced, and returned to the 84th Infantry Brigade.