brevity

1 The play makes a point of the brevity of his terrorizing reign.

2 The motif had been a popular one in earlier Dutch genre scenes, where bubbles symbolized life’s brevity and, hence, the vanity of all earthly things.

3 Befitting the brevity of the average mouth-on-mouth contact, most entries last only two or three pages.

4 Despite its brevity and deceptively simple concept the short took four months, upward of $50,000 and a team of technical experts to create.

5 I could dedicate an entirely separate article to describe the concert, but for the sake of brevity, BTS is a performance powerhouse, with each moment curated down to the finest detail.

6 What can brevity and concision do to help that?

7 His poem to autumn is, no doubt, an allegory for life’s brevity, especially his own, but it applies as well and more literally to the vegetable garden.

8 The brevity reminds me of a text message, but that is where the similarity ends.

9 This column has always celebrated brevity and her near relation, clarity.

10 The 45-second brevity rule not only cut back on lists of names, but it also pushed out false modesty and tears.

11 Meanwhile, although Max may be a witty soul he is not possessed of brevity.

12 She sent us an anecdote – in fact it is a short story to rival Maupassant or Hemingway in its power and brevity of expression.

13 A new celebration of brevity reaches its climax this week in Matt Shoard's online magazine, Fleeting.

14 Yet pronk works carried deeper meanings as the earliest forms of vanitas, a genre that uses symbolism to convey the brevity of life and futility of pleasure.

15 Its brevity has been offset, however, by the music's languorous, abstract videos.

16 Tired of the constraints of film — the deadlines, the need for brevity, the competition with ever-blaring sound effects, the work eating up half a year — he says he will soon step away from movie projects.

17 I found his advice odd for its brevity.

18 With text messaging, the genre is enjoying a renaissance, albeit one marked by shallowness and brevity.

19 One vital factor accounts for this unusual serenity, the very brevity of the show, which opened Monday to the private viewing and closes on Sunday.

20 It all started, many moons back, with an email — poetic in its brevity.

1 简短

summary capsule thumbnail concise tabloid terse short-winded chop short brief briefly fleeting laconic telegraphic monosyllabic curt quickie laconical shortly laconicism tout court curtly curtness short-circuit

2 短促

short-winded

3 短暂

temporality fugacity short fast passing lightning transient fugitive fleeting momentary ephemeral transitory briefly momentarily brief brittle short-lived fleetingly transience transitoriness temporal fugacious flying volatile frail deciduous fungous quick temporary evanescent little impermanent quickly fleet caducous mushroom episodic nonce fly-by-night momently impermanence caducity written in water bite-sized in-and-out passingly evanescence transiency briefness

4 简练

economy elegant pithy lapidary sententious restraint concise punchy

5 简洁

spare economy gracility brief compact succinct pithy laconic pithily pithiness neat economical concise snappy briefly economically concisely succinctness conciseness elegant chaste terse concinnity chastity concision laconism condense simple taut severely severity uncluttered telegraphical nutshell telegraphic sententious laconical brachylogy laconicism short clean tight thumbnail compressed monosyllabic compendious short-winded shortly compaction in small compass well-knit severe succinctly tersely telegraphically elegance terseness briefness

6 简要

brief compendious