All 22 Uses of
brief
in
The Brothers Karamazov
Uses with a very common or rare meaning:
- And a pliable imagination persuaded her, we must suppose, for a brief moment, that Fyodor Pavlovitch, in spite of his parasitic position, was one of the bold and ironical spirits of that progressive epoch, though he was, in fact, an ill-natured buffoon and nothing more.†
Chpt 1
- The elder spoke to them, read a brief prayer over them, blessed them, and dismissed them.†
Chpt 1
- "Very well, I will come," Alyosha decided, after rapidly scanning the brief, enigmatic note, which consisted of an urgent entreaty that he would come, without any sort of explanation.†
Chpt 2
- "That is, in brief," Father Paissy began again, laying stress on each word, "according to certain theories only too clearly formulated in the nineteenth century, the Church ought to be transformed into the State, as though this would be an advance from a lower to a higher form, so as to disappear into it, making way for science, for the spirit of the age, and civilization.†
Chpt 2
- In brief, he hopes and desires to make amends later.†
Chpt 2
- If he addressed them, he was brief, abrupt, strange, and almost always rude.†
Chpt 4
- Stupidity is brief and artless, while intelligence wriggles and hides itself.†
Chpt 5
- The young man in spectacles moved forward suddenly, and stepping up to Mitya, began with dignity, though hurriedly: "We have to make …. in brief, I beg you to come this way, this way to the sofa….†
Chpt 8
- In brief, Mitya was informed that he was, from that moment, a prisoner, and that he would be driven at once to the town, and there shut up in a very unpleasant place.†
Chpt 9
- Grushenka was brought in, but the farewell was brief, and of few words, and did not at all satisfy Nikolay Parfenovitch.†
Chpt 9
- "There are all sorts of peasants," Kolya observed to Smurov after a brief silence.†
Chpt 10
- But he kept Perezvon only for a brief moment.†
Chpt 10
- It was brief, and Madame Hohlakov was not directly mentioned in it.†
Chpt 11
- Katerina Ivanovna's "returns" to Mitya, that is, her brief but violent revulsions of feeling in his favor, drove Ivan to perfect frenzy.†
Chpt 11
- In brief there was every appearance of gentility on straitened means.†
Chpt 11
- So for one brief moment you did believe that I really exist," the gentleman laughed blandly.†
Chpt 11
- Spirits don't freeze, but when one's in fleshly form, well …. in brief, I didn't think, and set off, and you know in those ethereal spaces, in the water that is above the firmament, there's such a frost …. at least one can't call it frost, you can fancy, 150 degrees below zero!†
Chpt 11
- In brief, there was a great deal of talk.†
Chpt 12 *
- And, of course, this brief episode did him no good with the jury or the public.†
Chpt 12
- Grigory looked blankly at the questioner, and after a brief silence muttered, "There was saffron in it."†
Chpt 12
- The applause was, it's true, of brief duration, so that the President did not think it necessary to caution the public, and only looked severely in the direction of the offenders.†
Chpt 12
- "The talented young man, to whom I have referred already, Mr. Rakitin, characterized this heroine in brief and impressive terms: 'She was disillusioned early in life, deceived and ruined by a betrothed, who seduced and abandoned her.†
Chpt 12
Definition:
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(meaning too common or rare to warrant focus) Brief is most commonly encountered as an adjective meaning "of short duration." Other meanings derive from the idea of short--as when making a long story short by summarizing it, or when wearing briefs (underwear).