Sentence examples for sort of brief from inspiring English sources

It came in as a sort of brief interlude and solo between more extensive performances.

"Being a foreigner, there was a sort of brief period after 3/11 when there was this sense of community in Tokyo that I haven't felt before," Storey says.

A hit at the Sundance Film Festival, "Once" is now a cherished cult favorite, a sort of "Brief Encounter" for the scruffy folk-pop set of the 21st century.

For Officer Burt, 35, a droll and imperturbable product of Manhattan Catholic schools, the shooting brought the sort of brief lift out of obscurity that nudges guys like him from time to time.

Ground forces would have little utility in the sort of brief conflicts envisioned by some Pentagon strategists for coming years, and long-range precision weapons launched by air and sea could handle the job.

He did some sort of brief grunting calisthenics, presumably on the floor, then plopped into bed and set up an amazing lion's den of snarfling-snoring that forced me to flatten my head between pillows, so that I woke up in the morning with both hands numb as death, my eyes smarting, and my neck sore.

The movie also has another story line, about an unmarried lady of the streets, a sort of brief-encounters careerist, who dreams of becoming a happy suburban housewife.

"I had never seen, even in the years of New Labour when because I was neither a Blairite nor a Brownite I tended to be at the receiving end of quite a bit of abuse, the sort of briefing and sniping that was going on a couple of weeks ago.

To that end, the MPAA will provide colleges with some sort of "briefing book" on how to curtail downloading.

But as a catchall for the sorts of brief, often emotionally charged narratives that used to proliferate on personal blogs, the wordy caption is clearly gaining traction.

Mr. Cruson's books have been greeted enthusiastically, though he is aware of the limitations of these sorts of brief histories.