(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.
Cursory
Definition:
(a.) Running about; not stationary.
(a.) Characterized by haste; hastily or superficially performed; slight; superficial; careless.
Example Sentences:
(1) All of these are accomplished simultaneously with a cursory survey to identify immediately life-threatening injuries and to prevent permanent disability.
(2) It is clear that any investigations they have conducted have been cursory.
(3) A cursory web search would have helped but fewer of us bother when the news is relatively inconsequential.
(4) A cursory glance at human history suggests otherwise.
(5) A cursory trawl reveals a long list of employment tribunals and strikes by low-paid workers in these outsourcing companies.
(6) Further, it only takes a cursory look at Hizb ut-Tahrir’s website to see that they are embroiled in a bitter and ongoing feud with Isis.
(7) The statements to this point only give a cursory review of the beginning (20 years) of the kinetic approach to the classification of lipoproteins and subsystems which are involved in their synthesis and metabolism.
(8) Morphological differences are primarily related to locomotor patterns as reflected in the degree of cursoriality displayed by bovids in different habitats.
(9) In the past, says Hogan, they tended only to give them a cursory glance.
(10) Writer Feargus O’Sullivan thinks of the presence of artists and creative workers as adding a “cursory sheen to a place’s transformation”, describing the process as “ artwashing ”.
(11) But it was as much their mistakes as those of Moyes that led them to Tuesday's cursory announcement .
(12) In this chapter, while we review in a cursory way the older findings with glucocorticoid hormones, we concentrate on the newer developments which suggest that leukocyte- and pituitary-derived ACTH and endorphins perform regulatory functions within and between the immune system and the pituitary-adrenocortical axis.
(13) Yes, the ad included such issues as agriculture and the environment, but only the most cursory mention.
(14) The UK's cursory submission to the commission is in fact based on a February 2012 report titled Creating the Conditions for Integration .
(15) If anyone doubts that people do not care enough about wildlife then a cursory look at the emails, tweets, letters and calls that have flooded into the RSPB in recent days will open their eyes.
(16) The text which has to be easily understandable, mentions: a cursory description of the clinical signs of the different decompression accidents the measures which have to be taken in each case, depending on: the moment of the emergency: after or during decompression, the presence of an insufficient decompression, or a "blow-up".
(17) We didn’t actually fully investigate them, we just made a cursory visit and went back to all of our keyboards looking at everybody’s emails and text messages.
(18) I don’t think that a cursory look at the budget is enough for people to understand what we’re really getting at.
(19) According to one survey, just 4% of women do this, and a cursory glance around the globe hints it is not exactly common practice elsewhere.
(20) This is only a cursory view of the complexities one encounters when attempting to understand women, how and why they behave the way they do, how they respond to the health care system, what some of their influences are, and what we must all do together to help them help themselves and us, to provide them with a longer, more productive, rewarding and healthy life span.