The governor prefers oral presentations to leafing through briefing books.
Or when the performers take up gossamer social dance structures, spinning through brief steps, only to let them dissolve.
Cadmium, used in batteries and metal coatings, can cause lung disease through brief inhalation of high concentrations.
Is going to dinner parties work?" (It certainly can be, when it involves working a room, braving poached salmon, and smiling stiffly through "brief remarks").
Making people's lives better through brief, economical brain training is an appealing idea, but one for which there is currently no solid scientific support.
Mr. Smith, apparently unwelcome in the country because of his previous documentaries, has stayed in touch with his crew there through brief sessions on Skype.
Mr. Jurvanen played acoustic guitar, fingerpicking with a ragtimey lilt or a hint of western swing; between the lines he sometimes raced through brief, speedy bluegrass leads.
While Jay verbally assaults everyone they meet, Silent Bob compensates by communicating through facial expressions and hand gestures, only occasionally offering his measured wisdom through brief speeches.
Watching "Bon Voyage," one may be reminded of "Casablanca" and other glamorous Hollywood wartime melodramas in which political intrigue flows through brief love affairs and grubby black-market deals.
The point then, though, was ultimately to uphold the existing social order through brief choreographed chaos, not a sort of feudalist "Free to be You and Me".
I sat through briefing after briefing that assessed the plan for both the war and for the immediate postwar period, and as a part of that plan, the troop levels that were recommended by General Franks and by his commanders.
