Sentence examples for popular brief from inspiring English sources

Together with Kneehigh's two previous film adaptations, their provocatively free version of Powell and Pressburger's classic 1946 film A Matter of Life and Death and the hugely popular Brief Encounter (which was performed in a cinema, and which cleverly spliced film footage with live performance), it also forms an unintended cinematic triptych.

Amazon Alexa's popular "Flash Briefing" skill, designed to give you the latest news and information from a series of customizable news sources, can now tell you about what's happening in the world of music, too.

His plays were wildly popular for the brief period that he was on the Elizabethan literary scene.

In his first years, he wrote translations from the French and from the classics, brief popular lives of military men, and pamphlets mocking the government.

The brief popular revolution (1347) of Cola di Rienzo who, styling himself tribune of Rome, combined apocalyptic visions with ideas of a renewal of Rome's ancient glories had more dramatic than political impact.

If Lin had not become so popular in his brief time in New York, he probably would not have left the Knicks as a free agent, signing a backloaded four-year deal with the Rockets that could be worth as much as $28.8 million.

Since World War II it has become popular to have a brief sermon or speech before the feast.

Titus' brief but popular reign was followed by the autocracy of Domitian, who fought the senatorial class and instituted taxes and confiscations for costly buildings, games, and shows.

These 10 books were chosen by the authors to represent a selection of important books ranging from Darwin's (1859) On the Origin of Species; to Hawking's 1998 popular science book A Brief History of Time.

Originally introduced in 2002, offered for a limited-time in 2011, and brought back by popular demand for a brief menu stint this summer.

Instead, he survived for more than half a century, authoring popular books like A Brief History of Time and The Universe in a Nutshell.