All 4 Uses
brevity
in
The American, by Henry James
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- Ask him immediately!" said Mademoiselle Noemie, with soft brevity.†
Chpt 1
- The brevity of Newman's judgments very often shocked and discomposed him.†
Chpt 5 *
- Indeed, the mild, expansive brevity with which it was uttered, and a certain look, at once appealing and inscrutable, that issued from Newman's half-closed eyes as he leaned his head against the back of his chair, seemed to her the most eloquent attestation of a mature sentiment that she had ever encountered.†
Chpt 10
- Valentin made a bow which must have seemed to Mademoiselle Noemie quite in harmony with the impressiveness of his title, but the graceful brevity of her own response made no concession to underbred surprise.†
Chpt 11
Definitions:
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(1)
(brevity) the use of just a few words; or lasting a short time
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)