Sentence examples for or brevity from inspiring English sources

What is it about that length — or brevity — that appeals to you?

Although the explicit nature of his work will put off many, there is real warmth and joy to it: the encounters he shows are neither smutty nor seedy, no less loving for their rawness or brevity.

Still, nearly everything here simultaneously celebrates painting as a pictorial language steeped in its own history while also insistently pushing the idea of what a painting can be to extremes of rawness or brevity.

Yet judging by the length – or brevity – of the queue outside the store, which by mid-afternoon comprised just five people, Apple's latest offering – a 9-inch touchscreen tablet computer operated like its hit iPhone – is not drawing the crowds in the same way as previous product launches, which attracted scores of patient buyers.

For the demographic questions, answers were entered verbatim except for small edits for clarity or brevity.

It must be stressed that when reviews assessed or mentioned the feasibility and/or clinical utility of the tools, the two aspects were often confounded (reviewers, authors or users typically drawing conclusions from ease of use or brevity of a scale to its usefulness).

Around the turn of the twenty-first century, what has come to be called the new mechanical philosophy (or, for brevity, the new mechanism) emerged as a framework for thinking about the philosophical assumptions underlying many areas of science, especially in sciences such as biology, neuroscience, and psychology.

A phylogenetic tree (or, for brevity, simply a tree ) is an unordered rooted leaf-labeled tree.

People like to compare commutes, to complain or boast about their own and, depending on whether their pride derives from misery or efficiency, to exaggerate the length or the brevity of their trip.

The low figure may have reflected a lack of enthusiasm for the candidates, or the brevity of the campaign, which hampered efforts to mobilize voters.

This attentiveness to the overall shape of writers' careers (the husbandry of their gifts, the arc of their talent toward brevity or abstraction or self-absorption) informs the best of these essays, as Mr. Amis situates a given work within the corpus of an artist's oeuvre, and within larger evolutionary developments in the world of fiction.