The other singers too are vintage Britten performers, notably of course Peter Pears, whose part as Sir Philip, Owen's father, is comparatively brief but full of character.
Golf rounds are slow and baseball games borderline endless, but the actual moments of play are comparatively brief and highly focussed; like faster, reflex-reliant sports — basketball, soccer, ice hockey — they do not conduce to abstract thinking.
Although the group's history is comparatively brief (dinocephalian fossils are known from rocks spanning a narrow time interval between about 269 million to 263 million years ago), it is represented by a diversity of species known from China, Russia, South Africa, Zimbabwe, and Brazil (Rubidge 2005).
That's even more impressive because his literary career is comparatively brief; he didn't produce his first book until 1974.
Among the studies of peer-delivered services included in our review, some were comparatively brief, structured self-management focused programmes [ 27, 37, 39, 45, 46, 50] and others were longer-term and less structured [ 38, 41, 44, 48].
Not surprisingly for such a brief intervention there was comparatively small mean difference between the education and control groups, but there was also differentiated variability with standard deviations of 3.4 (education) and 11.5 (control).
The secondary spermatocytes divide further in meiosis II which is comparatively very brief, a matter of hours, and is similar to a mitotic division.
The housekeeping was comparatively minor.
By late 1941 the North Atlantic was comparatively quiet.
