(n.) Shortness of duration; briefness of time; as, the brevity of human life.
(n.) Contraction into few words; conciseness.
Example Sentences:
(1) The other example is of a woman who had a child who died at the age of 10 and expressed no regrets, but when questioned about whether she would have continued a pregnancy knowingly aware the baby would die in 10 years, the woman replied that she could not imagine how anyone could be so strong as to bear a child knowing the brevity of its life.
(2) The twitch duration of the mesothoracic TCX1 acquires its adult brevity gradually over the first 5 days of adult life.
(3) Merits of this procedure include operative simplicity and brevity, and high rate of cure.
(4) And when people read these stories – so admirable in their brevity, so controlled in their emotion, so artful in their artlessness; their use, for example, of the term NAME REDACTED instead of a character’s actual name to better show what is happening to a stranger is not an individual act, but a universal crime.” In his speech, titled Does Writing Matter?
(5) There is a very important dwarfism with extreme micromely, macrocephalia and brevity of chest.
(6) Adenosine has several advantages over verapamil, including rapid onset, brevity of side effects, theoretical safety, and probable lack of placental transfer.
(7) Getting access to the internet is a really big deal.” Rather than looking through his media library, though, there's a better explanation for where the Facebook founder is heading: he will be aware of the brevity of the period in the limelight most tech CEOs enjoy, so at 30 he's entitled to have a mid-life crisis.
(8) Circadian and about 12-h (circasemidian) components are modulated by an approximately 84-h (circasemiseptan) component, which cannot be separated from trends in view of the brevity of the series.
(9) This assay may prove useful for the dissection of allograft rejection and tumor resistance due to its brevity, reflection of T-cell immunity, and sensitivity to host humoral factors.
(10) The comparison shows that the two groups lie on the same curve of ventricular function and that subjects with IHSS operate low down owing to the brevity of their sarcomeres.
(11) It's not an objection to brevity or humour, and no sensible person really sees a new range of possible emoji as a sign of the eschaton.
(12) This case is unusual in the brevity of steroid treatment prior to onset of the myelopathy, as well as the relatively small dose.
(13) Pretreatment with Kö 1173, however, did not influence the toxicity of ouabain infusion, implying great brevity of action.4.
(14) Countering the scepticism of those who suggest the universal Church's official language might not be an obvious tool for spontaneous exchange and debate, Manlio Simonetti, a professor in Christian history, told L'Osservatore Romano: "Latin … is very well suited to the brevity necessary on new social networks, even more so than English."
(15) Good tools exist that meet requirements such as brevity, validity, reliability, ease of administration, and ease of scoring, which make them potentially suitable for use in clinical practice.
(16) Despite the brevity of follow-up in some patients, many patients, including those with no definable cause, had multiple seizures prior to the administration of anticonvulsants.
(17) The chief advantages of the endoscopic approach are its extreme brevity of two to five minutes, lack of morbidity, and lack of threat to the recurrent laryngeal nerve.
(18) For the sake of brevity only the FEV1 values are shown in the figures since the other parameters all revealed a similar pattern.
(19) This article presents a survey of clinical research focused on these questions which, for the sake of brevity, is confined to DA metabolism.
(20) The List of Threatening Experiences (LTE) of Brugha et al., by virtue of its brevity, overcomes difficulties of clinical application.
Brusque
Definition:
(a.) Rough and prompt in manner; blunt; abrupt; bluff; as, a brusque man; a brusque style.
Example Sentences:
(1) Overlaying the image are a few brusque swipes across the canvas, a gauzy smear of thin white paint, as if something had passed between us and the painting.
(2) The cases of 2 women with histologically proven GCA-TA are presented in which, together with the most classical symptoms, they presented a brusque mental deterioration on initiation of the disease.
(3) I suppose occasionally she may have spoken brusquely to one or two people who wanted more respect, but the job of the prime minister’s chief of staff is to be strong, it’s to be tough, it’s to be focused and she did an absolutely marvellous job.” Abbott said he did not want to criticise the new treasurer, Scott Morrison, whom he accused last week of “badly misleading people” by claiming he had warned Abbott’s office on the Friday before the leadership challenge to be on high alert.
(4) The second set of cops, they claim, were ruder and more brusque.
(5) He has also acquired a reputation for brusqueness with journalists ( he walked out of an interview with the Guardian in Iowa ) and, unusually for an American politician, he hardly ever smiles.
(6) Some critics labelled Sadik-Khan “brusque” and uncompromising; others wondered whether such labels tend to stick more easily to the relatively rare women in positions of power.
(7) It feels almost too obvious to point out that all of those complaints can be aimed right back at Sulzberger, specifically in relation to his generally astonishing, notably brusque and especially brutal firing of Abramson.
(8) Diuretics may be too brusque and lead to intracerebral haematoma.
(9) I’m scared of making generalisations, but there’s a brusque, down-to-earth humour where people tend to hit the nail on the head.
(10) The brusque, uncommunicative president she was hired to assist ("swathed in a whiskey mink, her eyes covered with enormous dark glasses, her head with a silk scarf in an equestrian pattern") was Phyllis Westberg.
(11) These interactions were: cool, efficient and rushed on one unit; casual, warm and somewhat superficial on the second unit; brusque and business-like on the third unit.
(12) 5 sparing diet a reduced serum cholesterol concentration was noted along with a noticeable rise of the cholic acid content in the bile with a not too brusque rise of the cholesterol level therein, which led to an increase of the cholate-cholesterol coefficient.
(13) She, like Abramson, was criticised for poor communication skills ("very difficult to talk to") , her bossiness ( "authoritarian" ) and her brusque nature ( "Putin-like" ).
(14) Her brusque humour frequently targeted celebrities, as well as herself.
(15) Then he railed at the club for not killing the stories regarding Pellegrini, an illustration of the Italian's brusque style, one which has not endeared him to players or some members of staff.
(16) Failure of reform Compared with the expenses horrors of 2009, such brusque Commons business may not qualify as a grade A parliamentary scandal.
(17) If the train brakes brusquely or the lights go out, I go into survival mode.” After the attacks, Alex wrote two harrowing blogposts about his experience that were widely read.
(18) Abramson, it has been reported, was "brusque" , "pushy", "mercurial".
(19) In any case, his brusque “lack of affect” provides one of the long-standing puzzles of the film: is he, too, a replicant?
(20) But in the governor’s brusque, “get it done” approach to city planning, he has also overseen mass evictions from overcrowded waterside kampung .