How To Use Brevity In A Sentence

Bacon aside, the condensed force and poignant brevity of whose aphoristic wisdom has no parallel in English, there is no other prosaist who possesses anything like Milton's command over the resources of our language. Milton
Their brevity has led to a system of text message abbreviations being devised, mixing numbers, symbols and capital letters.
Referred to simply as the Gothic Cruise (for brevity), this cruise is for fans of goth and industrial music and has been held annually for the past 15 years. Twilight Lexicon » Go Cruising Vampire Style
The sting of brevity is made much softer by the brilliant inclusion of a fully-operational level editor. Archive 2008-04-01
The sequence is thus all the more powerful for its brevity and understatement.

In the interests, I imagine, of brevity, those last two words have been omitted in later editions.
No-one ever said of Kallis, as Cardus did of Woolley, that his batting is the stuff of "soft airs and fresh flavours" nor does it even contain "the brevity of summer" which also accounted for Woolley's loveliness. The Kallis Conundrum
So you started out writing a 200K-word doorstop, and abandoned it in favor of brevity. Thoughts on The Last Colony « Whatever
Brevity is the soul of wit.
Undue brevity degenerates into mere epigrammatism. Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American
Brevity is the soul of wit.
When it was not, the inevitable brevity of calorimetric observations failed to reveal effects of dietetic deficiences which require time for their display. Sir Frederick Hopkins - Nobel Lecture
The problem of my lack of brevity was tackled next. Going For It!: How to Succeed As an Entrepreneur
Its only saving grace was its brevity - 78 minutes that crawled by like the Hundred Years' War.
In part, this effect is due to the brevity and conciseness of each topic, another characteristic of this book that I found appealing and refreshing.
Lude, commemorated in the ingenious Mr. Gunn's Essay on the Caledonian Harp, and so proceed in my story with all the brevity that my natural style of composition, partaking of what scholars call the periphrastic and ambagitory, and the vulgar the circumbendibus, will permit me. The Waverley
I can only imagine this could make for some really compelling literature -- after all, it was the flexibility of the English language that gave Shakespeare such leeway for brilliance in his day -- but when daily news depends on clarity and brevity, overcoming a basic problem like an unstandardized language is no small feat. Victoria Fine: Why Can't Kurdish Journalists Write Well? A Look at Modern Media in Iraq
Then Count Considat spoke again, no more ably than before, but at least with greater brevity. KING OF DREAMS
He did so with an ability, clarity and, given the mass of material, brevity for which we both thank and commend him.
If the narrative is to be presented relatively rapidly, then brevity must be a feature of the style expected.
Lude, commemorated in the ingenious Mr. Gunn's Essay on the Caledonian Harp, and so proceed in my story with all the brevity that my natural style of composition, partaking of what scholars call the periphrastic and ambagitory, and the vulgar the circumbendibus, will permit me. The Waverley
It's dance music coming out of a background of hardcore punk where brevity is part of our thing.
A little brevity, a modicum of content, and a lot less rant would be good.
It's dance music coming out of a background of hardcore punk where brevity is part of our thing.
Imagine the exclamatory brevity that space travel writing might bring.
I'm going to skip, for the sake of brevity (and fairness), the naming and blaming of the person who let me know that Obama asking for dijon mustard is the source of a right wing fanatical frenzy. Obama and dijon mustard: the history behind the headlines.
Its brevity and limited depth really hurts, rather than helps it.
For brevity's sake we can refer to such activities as mentalizing, and we can ask about the cognitive mechanisms which underpin our capacity to mentalize. Folk Psychology as a Theory
But in the interest of brevity I now leave this short summary as it is.
I trust that the reader will therefore forgive the brevity of this survey.
His numerous speeches were models of clarity and brevity. Times, Sunday Times
Homophonic hypertexts are of a function of puns and rhetorically featured with humor, novelty and brevity.
Whether man be the _vibrion_ or the heir to immortality, the bundle of carbon or the care of angels, one fact is indisputable: he suffers agonies, mental and physical, that are wholly out of proportion to the brevity of his life, while he is too often weighted from infancy with hereditary maladies, both of body and of character. Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida
He explains, Americans are conditioned to equate visual brevity with success and power.
By its brevity, that one word expands to fill the scene, and remains as an indelible memory.
Agitation, brevity and pertinency are the three characteristics of advertisement rhetoric.
the Russian system of nominal brevity
I trust that the reader will therefore forgive the brevity of this survey.
The Brevity line of jewelry is aptly named, as the title defines its simplistic and minimalistic beauty. TREND HUNTER - The Latest Trends
The wedding invitation, once the model of a certain kind of brevity, is now often a mere component of a thick dossier with multiple stamps. The Wedding Merchants
Conversely, the shorter numbers are often stifling in their brevity.
The bonus of this homely soup is the brevity of its cooking time.
But he often takes a false measure of their importance; and his superfluous prolixity is disagreeably balanced by his unseasonable brevity.] 66 Chishull, a curious traveller, has remarked the breadth of the Danube, which he passed to the south of Bucharest near the conflux of the Argish, (p. 77.) The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
The brevity of the short film format, sadly, undermines the good intentions of the filmmakers.
Aside from the brevity of the story, what intrigued us was how narky it was.
The brevity of the concert disappointed the audience.
I'd say that is because it is a model of brevity and clarity.
Jin does not endow his protagonist with high powers of lyricism, brevity or a particularly happy ending.
He did so with an ability, clarity and, given the mass of material, brevity for which we both thank and commend him.
But for the sake of clarity and brevity, I think I'll just respond to a few of his points directly
The problem with my post's briefness on that is that I really did not go into the semantics of the issue - you cover a lot of it, but perhaps due to the brevity of my post, some things were not communicated clearly (or at all). On Profanity: 4
So, in the interest of brevity, here's a quick rundown of what sucked.
This is a haunting and powerful piece, all the more effective for its relative brevity.
But without further tyranny over my readers, or display of the extent of my own reading, I shall content myself with borrowing a single incident from the memorable hunting at Lude, commemorated in the ingenious Mr. Gunn's Essay on the Caledonian Harp, and so proceed in my story with all the brevity that my natural style of composition, partaking of what scholars call the periphrastic and ambagitory, and the vulgar the circumbendibus, will permit me. Waverley: or, 'Tis sixty years since
Before that, the Young Vic hosted his two-hour adaptation of Hamlet starring Adrian Lester, which was more than iconoclasm, and doubtless an exercise in brevity only achievable by Brook himself.
Like many unprolific authors he has acquired an undeserved reputation for brevity.
This brevity is also in the service of the story, the ever shrinking life of the protagonist and this in turn accomplishes a feat which wouldn't otherwise be possible in another mode of fiction. MIND MELD: Memorable Short Stories to Add to Your Reading List (Part 1 of 2)
The number and brevity of the scenes also present problems.
We live in an age when attention deficit disorder is rife amongst adults and children alike and brevity is a prized quality.
The bonus of this homely soup is the brevity of its cooking time.
Both see fun in physics, both love simplicity and brevity. Times, Sunday Times
But without further tyranny over my readers, or display of the extent of my own reading, I shall content myself with borrowing a single incident from the memorable hunting at Lude, commemorated in the ingenious Mr. Gunn's essay on the Caledonian Harp, and so proceed in my story with all the brevity that my natural style of composition, partaking of what scholars call the periphrastic and ambagitory, and the vulgar the circumbendibus, will permit me. Waverley — Volume 1
Children like poetry because they are sensitive to rhythm and music and are attracted by its brevity and directness.
Jacqueline, but we had always called her Jack, for brevity, and because, with her cropped head and rough ways, she resembled a boy more than a girl; her hair was growing now, and hung about her neck in short ungainly lengths, but I doubt whether in its present stage it was any improvement. Esther : a book for girls
Features of this sequence are brevity and variety.
We reserve the right to edit for brevity and clarity, while keeping the individual tone intact.
The need for brevity made Lincoln pack a great deal into few words.
This is a triumph of conciseness, a 247-word beacon of brevity. Ethan Rome: Size Matters: The GOP & Health Care
For the sake of brevity, I'd like to make just two points.
They are characterized by brevity, by a key-word, by epanaphora [i. e, repetition], and by their epigrammatic style ... Easton's Bible Dictionary
ST tends to do that although I think it is more for brevity than anything else .... piracer: That looks like Matsusaka beef, no? chocolate reindeer: * drool drool drool* Food.recentrunes.com
The movie's brevity (it's only two hours long) thus comes as a relief.
The initial sections are tight little vignettes whose brevity lends them a narrative crispness.
Consisting of a scant 17 lines, only 3 of which contain more than 3 words, the poem displays her penchant for brevity and enjambment.
The bonus of this homely soup is the brevity of its cooking time.
Men talk about facts and want clarity and brevity.
In his report on the text, Sewall called the passage "dismaying" in its flatness and brevity. WordPress.com Top Blogs
There's a heart-breaking brevity to its ungainly, wooden, doomful little action. 'Words In Air: The Complete Correspondence Between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell'
Putting aside the irony of his having to ballyhoo "microstyle" through the implementation of "Big Style," it must be said that Johnson does make myriad important declarations about the construction of thoughts so they're rhythmic, and metaphoric, are persuasive when appropriately detailed, are even poetic -- declarations at which Strunk and White would undoubtedly nod their heads approvingly and which certainly satisfy the revered journalist's ABC accuracy, brevity, clarity. David Finkle: Easy Reader: Simon Garfield's Enthralling Just My Type, Christopher Johnson's Less Than Enthralling Microstyle
The main purpose which I have had in view in writing this book has been to present an account of Greek philosophy which, within strict limits of brevity, shall be at once authentic and interesting -- _authentic_, as being based on the original works themselves, and not on any secondary sources; _interesting_, as presenting to the ordinary English reader, in language freed as far as possible from technicality and abstruseness, the great thoughts of the greatest men of antiquity on questions of permanent significance and value. A Short History of Greek Philosophy
(link) A literary lesson in brevity from the kids, eh? Ccfinlay: Blog Posts I Haven't Made Recently
Aktiengesellschaft, which, for brevity is generally referred to as "I.G.", has also introduced other high-pressure methods. Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1931 - Presentation Speech
The brevity of the concert disappointed the audience.
This election campaign, which thanks to its brevity has been heated from the start, is not going to the strategists' plans.
Because of its extreme brevity, it has been used both as a summary statement of Mahyna truth, and as a liturgical and ritual text.
The purpose of the drabble is brevity and to test the author’s ability to express interesting and meaningful ideas in an extremely confined space. Color Me Drabbled | Living the Liminal
In the interest of brevity, we decided to reduce the initial item pool.
In the interest of brevity (here as well as in my initial post) I use these terms loosely.
Another short post, but brevity is the soul of wit. New Britain Democrats Events This Weekend | spazeboy
Its refreshing brevity of ten minutes made it a convenient apéritif for the concerto to follow.
Harden explained this by saying that a high-molecular enzyme, the zymase proper, was left on the filter, which let through a low-molecular complementary enzyme, which for the sake of brevity was called co-enzyme or co-zymase.
Its brevity, awkward composition and lukewarm style of its writing stemmed from the Committee's revisions.
Jin does not endow his protagonist with high powers of lyricism, brevity or a particularly happy ending.
We reserve the right to edit for brevity and clarity, while keeping the individual tone intact.
We have condensed the ideas into our own words, for the sake of brevity and clarity.
I try to avoid using the term autistic to describe a person - except in cases where brevity is a requirement, like a headline. Kim Stagliano: Why is Ohio Retarded but Connecticut Isn't?
The brevity of the concert disappointed the audience.
[Reads] ‘I will imitate the honourable Romans in brevity:’ he sure means brevity in breath, short-winded. The second part of King Henry the Fourth
Indeed, the only thing particularly remarkable about the story is it relative brevity.
None of the astronomers who witnessed the past five transits of Venus are alive today, but they surely reflected on the rarity of what they saw - a reminder of the brevity of human life.
The tendency for earlier generations to lean so heavily on providence had been connected with the brevity and insecurity of life.
In spite of its brevity, it is the most comprehensive summary listing that I have seen in print.
Strengths of the book are its brevity, the lively, incisive writing, and the authors' willingness to take a stand.
This faith in the survival of personality after death may for the sake of brevity be called a faith in immortality, though the term immortality is not strictly correct, since it seems to imply eternal duration, whereas the idea of eternity is hardly intelligible to many primitive peoples, who nevertheless firmly believe in the continued existence, for The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia
Were brevity not a concern, I would urge Fuchs to retitle his paper ‘Health and Government, and the Prescriptions of Irving Fisher.’
I do not think it is uniformly conspicuous [Y] for quaintness, or that there is much that can be called affectation; though occasionally an excess of brevity has proved too tempting, or the desire to individualize runs away with him. Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters
Harden explained this by saying that a high-molecular enzyme, the zymase proper, was left on the filter, which let through a low-molecular complementary enzyme, which for the sake of brevity was called co-enzyme or co-zymase. Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1929 - Presentation Speech
Also the designation RR, adopted for brevity, signifies Rural Rehabilitation and not Rural Resettlement. Emergency Relief in North Carolina. A Record of the Development and the Activities of the North Carolina Emergency Relief Administration, 1932-1935. North Carolina Emergency Relief Commission, State administrator, Mrs. Thomas O'Berry. Edited by J.S. K
He did not go on to explain his position in any detail, but he did not have to; his neo-colonial patronisation illuminated despite his gnomic brevity.
He searched for the right words to relay this information with brevity.
The 900-page books aside, we applaud brevity, speed and quick thinking.
But brevity is the soul of wit, and Lemoine's well-crafted divertissements have enchanted theatregoers for the past 22 years.
Deliver intelligent and incisive points, well made and expressed with sublime brevity, with great import for the organisation and relevant to all present.
For many times, in their interpretation, right witty, learned, and ingenious men have been deceived through amphibologies, equivoques, and obscurity of words, no less than by the brevity of their sentences. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
Despite their brevity, I just love her tastes in swanky background music (the theme from Mannix — yeah!). Queen of the House : Scrubbles.net
The interested listeners were disappointed with the brevity of the conversation, and spoke guardedly and in cipher to each other after Pearl and Mrs. Paine had gone: Somebody is away, see! Purple Springs
The father knows there is gold in brevity and wit. Julius Wiedemann: What's in a brand? THE STORY OF THE GAP LOGO AND WHY EVERYTHING IS POSSIBLE
One must be aware of the fact that Egyptian political culture is multifarious, and given the brevity of this paper it would be illogical to attempt to fully examine every part of society.
Children like poetry because they are sensitive to rhythm and music and are attracted by its brevity and directness.
It's dance music coming out of a background of hardcore punk where brevity is part of our thing.
There were other items in the agreement that have been omitted for brevity.
For all the differences between golf and most other spectator sports its sheer spaciousness and the special beauty of its artificial landscape, the extreme leisureliness of its rhythms, the demands on concentration, the brevity of its key actions, let alone their fierce intensities of gracefulness, accuracy, timing, trigonometry all those differences shrink beside the indices of money and fame, the two poles of success. 'A Short History of Celebrity'
But without further tyranny over my readers, or display of the extent of my own reading, I shall content myself with borrowing a single incident from the memorable hunting at Lude, commemorated in the ingenious Mr. Gunn's essay on the Caledonian Harp, and so proceed in my story with all the brevity that my natural style of composition, partaking of what scholars call the periphrastic and ambagitory, and the vulgar the circumbendibus, will permit me. Waverley — Volume 1
‘Nothing’ and ‘anything’ are fine compound words, but I like the brevity of nowt and owt.
Most surprising is that such force gets evoked in such brevity of prose.
He brings a surprising amount of brevity and clarity to his performance, outacting many of his Hollywood contemporaries.
That author speaks of "the austere and masculine virtues of Latin, the sincerity and brevity of Roman speech;" and Tacitus is, beyond any doubt, the strongest, the austerest, the most pregnant of all the Romans. The Reign of Tiberius, Out of the First Six Annals of Tacitus; With His Account of Germany, and Life of Agricola
And the first lesson all journalists should learn is that brevity - clear, tight writing - is key.
If there was one thing that disappointed me it was the apparent brevity of the show.
Brevity is, in almost everything, a virtue.
The movie's brevity (it's only two hours long) thus comes as a relief.
Combining, e.g., the smallest content with the smallest extension of a non-empty idea results in a new type of idea, viz. in an “intuition in itself” or, as we may say for the sake of brevity, an intuition (Anschauung). Slices of Matisse
The news given, the marriage was dated ahead with ten times the brevity of the old-line Chinese custom. THE TEARS OF AH KIM
But what it lacks in brevity, this report makes up for in audacity. Times, Sunday Times
In spite of its brevity, it is the most comprehensive summary listing that I have seen in print.
For brevity is both an apophthegmatic thing and a gnomic one, and it is more clever to gather much thought in a small space, just as in seeds the potentialities of whole trees are gathered.
The main purpose which I have had in view in writing this book has been to present an account of Greek philosophy which, within strict limits of brevity, shall be at once authentic and interesting -- _authentic_, as being based on the original works themselves, and not on any secondary sources; _interesting_, as presenting to the ordinary English reader, in language freed as far as possible from technicality and abstruseness, the great thoughts of the greatest men of antiquity on questions of permanent significance and value. A Short History of Greek Philosophy
We reserve the right to edit for brevity and clarity, while keeping the individual tone intact.
I think brevity is sadly overrated in the blogging world. The Honest Scrap Meme « Tales from the Reading Room
With lofty indifference, they said to us with Socratic brevity, "Taihoa."
In fact, maybe you should read some Shakespeare and learn that brevity is the soul of wit. Weekend Weirdness: Animal Collective’s ODDSAC Premieres in NYC; Chuck Norris Does Actionfest; Actor David Sherrill on The Wraith (and a Sequel?); Melvins Versus The Shining; Stussy’s J. Dilla Documentary | /Film
They offer hyper-brevity, instant gratification, and cater to an attention-deficit society that is ever less interested in investing the time required to read (or write) more than 140 characters at a time. Howard Hughes and the Unctuous Imbroglio
The old saying, brevity is the soul of wit, does not necessarily hold true in this case. Times, Sunday Times
None of this is compromised for the sake of brevity.
The one factor in the movie's favor is its brevity - only 81 minutes, including credits.
We're not showing the output for reasons of brevity, but you could try it on your own.
The tendency for earlier generations to lean so heavily on providence had been connected with the brevity and insecurity of life.
Brevity is a stylistic feature of this narrative.
In either case we violate the maxim of brevity.
The Nobel-winning novelist Kenzaburo Oe has said that the modern Japanese prose of Tanizaki and Kawabata finds its roots in the ancient short verse of tanka and haiku—forms marked by brevity, elegance and highly refined naturalism. Rebel Ascendant
Now, I want the easiness of poetry, the brevity of the poem.
It benefits from its clear writing style, its many examples, and its brevity.
IV. The limitation of monk cursive script makes its influence brevity.
Fourthly, The last thing, whereby this work of conversion to God is completed, as to the outward means of it, which is the ingenerating and acting of faith in God by Jesus Christ, remains alone to be considered, wherein all possible brevity and plainness shall be consulted; and I shall comprise what I have to offer on this head in the ensuing observations: -- Pneumatologia
But due to the brevity of the arrangements, within a few bars the music takes a sharp and often abrupt turn to the final cadence in ways that are disruptive to a listener or a pianist familiar with the original themes.
They may make use of the brevity of Latin tags, just as pithy as any adman's lingo.
`I'm an admirer of brevity, but we're dealing with a complex consecution of events, as you'll see. MURDER IN E MINOR
No wonder she could write brevities, she whose existence was brevity itself. Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets
I trust that the reader will therefore forgive the brevity of this survey.
Children like poetry because they are sensitive to rhythm and music and are attracted by its brevity and directness.
But without further tyranny over my readers, or display of the extent of my own reading, I shall content myself with borrowing a single incident from the memorable hunting at Lude, commemorated in the ingenious Mr. Gunn's Essay on the Caledonian Harp, and so proceed in my story with all the brevity that my natural style of composition, partaking of what scholars call the periphrastic and ambagitory, and the vulgar the circumbendibus, will permit me. Waverley: or, 'Tis sixty years since
At that time, Coleridge was the radical begetter of the Lyrical Ballads; and had he expired, he would, Holmes suggested, have been recalled as a meteoric talent, that - like that of Keats or Shelley - had burned all the brighter for its very brevity. Jura Duty
(For purposes of brevity, these two gentleman shall be referred to as KO and BO respectively within this piece.) Lionel: Olbermann Versus O'Reilly: It's a Shoot
One of Davidson's grumbles is the fact that the new words which jostle out the old are getting shorter, as text-speak becomes ubiquitous and Twitter puts a premium on brevity, with "tx" replacing "thanks" and "soz" - yuk - supplanting "sorry". Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
A customer who responds positively to a cleverly worded e-mail may prefer brevity and clarity in voice mail messages.
If brevity is the soul of wit, it likewise is the heart of helpful attribution. Christianity Today
This brevity and intensity of focus leads to a succinct cinematic statement.
I hope that the brevity of this war does not convince Americans that we can lick anybody on the block.
In spite of its brevity, it still remains a fine specimen of how a group of fragmentary ideas can be moulded into a unified whole.
These categories are clumsy and incomplete, but I'm hoping you can deduce what I mean for the sake of brevity here.
Ideas are sketched in and elaborated with breathtaking, sometimes mind-boggling brevity.
This principle of preservation I have called, for the sake of brevity, Natural Selection.
The brevity of the counseling intervention may have been insufficient to affect change.
Considered as a whole, the seams do show cuts were made in the interests of brevity.
This principle of preservation I have called, for the sake of brevity, Natural Selection.
Brevity is the soul of English.

How To Use Brevity In A Sentence

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