Sentence examples for terribly brief from inspiring English sources

While fun, the single-player mode is terribly brief.

And after terribly brief run-ins with Jerome (Brittany, 1987), and Thingummy (Cornwall, 1988), I too came to believe this and staked my claims a little closer to home, with nice, sensible men in nice, sensible jobs who were polite to my mother.

The Harry Potter movies showed us their characters growing older in real time: unlike Just William or Bart Simpson, Daniel Radcliffe's Harry was going to grow up like a normal person and never before has any film – or any book – brought home to me how terribly brief childhood is.

The Potter movies showed us their characters getting older in real time: unlike Just William or Bart Simpson, Daniel Radcliffe's Potter was going to grow up like a normal person and never before has any film – or any book – brought home to me how terribly brief childhood is.

Tweets, by contrast, are both terribly brief and terribly public; in effect the polar opposite of traditional channels.

I'm grateful to my former colleague Thessaly La Force, of the Paris Review, for calling my attention to an extraordinary post on that magazine's Web site: a brief, terribly sad, powerfully evocative biographical portrait of the great and short-lived jazz pianist Sonny Clark, by Sam Stephenson.

In fact it's not terribly hard to find — a brief bus ride or a somewhat longer walk along the Via Ostiense from the Ostiense train station, which lies at the base of the Aventine Hill and at the edge of the Testaccio neighborhood.

"While intermittent, acute flashbacks might be initially surprising and startling for some, particularity at first, they tend to be very brief and not terribly intense".

He was known for his brief, growly and not terribly informative sessions with the news media and for occasional outbursts of high-volume anger at his players.

Mr. Poundstone's book asks one overriding question: "Is it possible to devise a fair way of voting, one immune to vote splitting?" The answer requires some historical context: a brief history of elections gone terribly awry.

The third season finds Rob in a terribly ironic position: after lying about an encounter with another man during a brief separation, Sharon paddles desperately to keep their relationship and her favor with him afloat.