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briefness

NOUN
  1. the temporal property of being very short
  2. the attribute of being brief or fleeting

How To Use briefness In A Sentence

  • Surprised by the briefness of the conversation, I stuttered back, ‘O-okay, I guess.’
  • Despite the briefness of the play, there is certainly no lack of depth here.
  • Here is a summary of the Sunday Round 17 games, please excuse the "briefness" of the resumes as I have just got in. Soccer Blogs - latest posts
  • This briefness is to be regretted, but at least they are there and this is to be welcomed in a work of this type.
  • But his counterplea when it came was of a disconcerting briefness and potency. The Collectors
  • And might well have drowned in this drink of men -- I who had never known a mother's breast in the briefness of time I had lived -- had it not been for Lingaard. Chapter 17
  • Despite the briefness of that glimpse, she could tell that they were in serious trouble.
  • Despite its briefness, Mason's work is the best of the three actors who are first billed in the film.
  • Beatrice smiled at him very kindly in the moonlight, for the youth in his voice appealed very earnestly to the youth in her heart, and it may be to a gaingiving that had also its lodging in her body and warned her of youth's briefness. The God of Love
  • Currently most large internet systems are written in Java, which is not exactly famous for its briefness. Archive 2008-01-01
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