It came in as a sort of brief interlude and solo between more extensive performances.
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.
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.
"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.
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.
You don't need to hold any sort of brief for David Cameron to feel that hatchet jobs of this ilk, flogged to the Daily Mail for six figures and labelled "Revenge!" at the top of page one, are wild, woolly and pretty wonky.
For someone like Shields, there's little reason to attach this kind of statement to a work of fiction (for most novels, he says, "you have to read seven hundred pages to get the handful of insights that were the reason the book was written"; he recommends that would-be authors skip the excess pages and instead write a sort of brief précis as to these main insights).
