Sentence examples for mostly brief from inspiring English sources

These poems are mostly brief and intense.

It was mostly brief encounters, strung together.

The speeches were mostly brief, generally funny, and plainly heartfelt.

The mostly brief chapters, dated by month and year, keep us oriented amid the rapid chronological shifts backward and forward.

Its 41 pieces, which cover a wide variety of writers and visual and theatrical artists, are mostly brief -- appreciations, elegies, reflections -- and mostly occasional: prefaces, catalog copy, talks.

He sat in a blue chair while reporters stood around him, his expression glum, his eyes like slits and his answers mostly brief.

READING Mostly briefs, old Supreme Court cases and the Federalist Papers, so when I get a chance to unwind I grab novels like "True History of the Kelly Gang," by Peter Carey, which is beautifully written and completely evocative of the early days of Australia.

Mostly briefed by the fishermen's guilds.

But the show consisted mostly of brief anecdotes and even briefer asides.

Between 1952 and 1961, Stockhausen composed a series of 11 piano pieces, mostly quite brief, which he later referred to as his "drawings".

There survive only one complete and one partial book from the De viris illustribus; the biographies in these extant texts are mostly quite brief, being a few characteristic anecdotes strung together to illustrate trite moral principles.