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I'm not sure they appreciated her speech, but I know they liked its brevity.brevity = lasting a short time
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I like Twitter for its brevity.brevity = use of few words
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Even with each count stated with maximum brevity, in single spacing, the indictment stretched over eight feet of paper. (source)brevity = minimal use of words
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When Miss Maudie was angry her brevity was icy. (source)brevity = use of few words
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If we could establish an identity for the narrator, we felt, we might be well on the way to an explanation of how this document — let me call it that for the sake of brevity — came into being. (source)brevity = conciseness (use of few words)
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The title of the poem is taken from Macbeth, "Out, out, brief candle," suggesting the brevity not merely of a teenager's life but of any human existence, particularly in cosmic terms. (source)brevity = shortness
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Marley reminded me of life's brevity, of its fleeting joys and missed opportunities. (source)brevity = shortness
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I didn't want Rufus having to face some creditor that I had angered with my twentieth-century brevity—which could come across as nineteenth-century abruptness, even discourtesy. (source)brevity = conciseness (minimal use of words)
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"I wrote them a letter on why I was the answer to sliced bread," is how Flom explains it, with characteristic brevity. (source)brevity = use of few words
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Burnham could send telegrams, but they forced a cold and clumsy brevity and afforded little privacy. (source)
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There was an obvious utility in the brevity of terms like "H of G," for a mind moving fast, and for people trying to keep up. (source)brevity = conciseness (economy of words)
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I have condensed some of the action, for the sake of clarity, and eliminated some minor characters, for brevity; (source)brevity = make it shorter
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He was preoccupied with the brevity of life.† (source)
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Paul, shirtless, stood with his hands thrust into the pockets of his cutoffs, answering with awkward brevity the questions that came his way.† (source)
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"They know," he replied with his usual brevity.† (source)
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In the Army brevity was a virtue beyond all others.† (source)
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