Sentence examples for sharp and brief from inspiring English sources

The description, too, is sharp and brief.

The battles with fear are sharp and brief; in between stretch long periods of potential dread, as you watch your competitors vault (or balk) and wait for your turn to do the same.

The pain is sharp and brief, but the adrenaline rush I'm experiencing is intense.

Full of short, sharp sentences and brief chapters, packed with cliffhangers, his best-known character is the African American pathologist Alex Cross, but he is also known for his Women's Murder Club series and for the Maximum Ride books for young adults, about a group of children who are able to fly after being experimented on.

His disappointment in her was sharp but brief, and bound up with excitement.

Her discussions with several co-workers (such as her intern and the doctor she's replacing) are sharp and deep, but curt and brief.

The letter is brief, sharp and clear — the most public rebuke of Trump that has emerged from Wharton.

Scenes are brief and sharp, and there are no stalls in the easy flow of the investigation, which ends with Frank and Paul on a grim road trip to Mexico that also proceeds with remarkably few hitches.

He need never be named or called a bird, but his gestures and his habits are birdlike, his voice and his very words are sharp and twittering, and in his brief appearance he might select nuts, or pieces of popcorn, and pick them up like seeds from the ground, with a quick darting movement.

Foreigners who negotiated with him thought him sharp and knowledgeable, good at mastering briefs, but willing to refer to aides when necessary.

At 8 17, Neil squared off with him, and the two had a sharp but brief fight.