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Brevity
"Brevity" in a Sentence (13 examples)
When you send a telegram, brevity is essential because you will be charged for every word.
Brevity is the soul of wit.
As touching the gods, I do not know whether they exist or not, nor how they are featured; for there is much to prevent our knowing: the obscurity of the subject and the brevity of human life.
In the brevity lies the power.
Brevity and conciseness characterize this volume and it is planned to meet the needs of the busy teacher and student.
Brevity will help you to be understood by others.
Tom prefers to explicate rather than summarize, believing clarity is more important than brevity.
Brevity isn't your pastime.
Brevity is not your strong point.
Thanks to Global Positioning Systems we can see that Europe and North America are parting at about the speed a fingernail grows—roughly two yards in a human lifetime. If you were prepared to wait long enough, you could ride from Los Angeles all the way up to San Francisco. It is only the brevity of lifetimes that keeps us from appreciating the changes.
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[B]revity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes[.]
Whenever a public question comes to such a crisis that the opportunities for individual intervention are reduced to the smallest possible compass, Mr. Roebuck is sure to step in with a formula, summing up the case with indignant brevity, censuring somebody, or panegyrizing somebody.
A good technical writing style will now be defined as a style possessing clarity, brevity, and variety.
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