Sentence examples for told in short from inspiring English sources

A long book told in short chapters, "Papers in the Wind" goes down quickly, like a string of SportsCenter highlights.

The novel is told in short chapters in the first-person voice of Howie, thinking back from the ripe old age of almost 16.

We are told, in short, that Charlie is not quite a man.

It's told in short, separately titled sections that skip in constantly unpredictable directions; a playful, essayistic piece that only gradually reveals the seriousness of its subject.

In 1974 the story Piñero told in "Short Eyes," a prison drama presented by Joseph Papp's Public Theater and at Lincoln Center, won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for best American play.

Told in short segments, most of which are no longer than 10 minutes, "That Dragon, Cancer" is an assemblage of memory fragments.

In John Ford Noonan's very funny play, "Talking Things Over with Chekhov," the following anecdote is told in shorter form.

It was a tentative affair, most telling in short films by the Californian Jack Goldstein: the M-G-M lion incessantly aroar, a trained German shepherd barking on cue.

"We do have big money here but I find it difficult to tell in shorts and flip-flops whether someone has 600 million in the bank or $6," one local estate agent said.

But the stories are most memorably told in several short photographic sequences, the visual equivalents of oral history.

At one point in his revisions, Melville deleted the paragraphs explaining this historical context; indeed, his stark story, told in many short segments, feels whittled down, as opposed to Hawthorne's desperately shifting accretion of "slippery things".