Consolidated Edison set a record peak of 12,207 megawatts, and reported only scattered and brief power failures affecting 7,000 customers in Queens and 2,100 in the Bronx.
There are brief, scattered flashbacks to his French childhood.
Funny that the few brief, scattered passages of "Engleby" not dominated by the narrator should seem so much surer, more relaxed, more eloquent than the great expanses of pyrotechnic verbiage surrounding them.
Brazzaville's literary culture ebbed thereafter, constrained by the country's small population (fewer than five million people, of whom a third live in the capital), policed by successive authoritarian regimes, and ultimately scattered by a brief but ugly civil war in the late nineteen-nineties.
E-mail address GO SIGN UP Share Tweet Brazzaville's literary culture ebbed thereafter, constrained by the country's small population (fewer than five million people, of whom a third live in the capital), policed by successive authoritarian regimes, and ultimately scattered by a brief but ugly civil war in the late nineteen-nineties.
This brings us to the second major stumbling block: What Locke does provide us by way of moral theory in these works is diffuse, with the air of being what J.B. Schneewind has characterized as "brief, scattered and sometimes puzzling" (Schneewind 1994, 200).
I can picture either woman in a big, beautiful bed with great sheets, the duvet scattered with legal briefs or policy papers.
He went along with the eccentric brief for scattered colleges that combined teaching with living, all to be assembled by developing the unsightly prefabricated Clasp system, then the most successful and adaptable of the rapid construction kits devised to tackle the postwar backlog of public building.
Its six interwoven stories and grand themes of karma and compassion got a tepid response from many critics, and the applause at their screening was brief and scattered.
Purple flowers and balloons were scattered about signs adorned with brief words from the stream of fans that have continued to arrive.
