Cultural observers bemoan the way electronic media with their demand for spectacle and brevity have shortened our attention spans.
Beyond that, the simplicity and linearity and brevity of the game all end up working in its favor.
It is unclear, because of the editing and brevity of the clip, whether he is encouraging them to use weapons or discouraging them.
Summer idylls in the woods featured milk and wild strawberries, as well as al fresco sex, to show the sweetness and brevity of passing time.
While clarity and brevity may have become a lost art, understanding the importance of clear, lucid, and straight-forward communication is nonetheless critical to your success as a leader.
As for jargon and lengthy presentations and memos, Branson is like that grizzled editor in search of brevity and clarity.
My father, known in the family as "Rog, " rattles through the iconic players with gusto and the degree of brevity required when one is teeing off in a hour.
In the opening pages of Cry, the Beloved Country, the poignant novel about a disintegrating Zulu family, Alan Paton depicted the barren land left to the tribe by the late 1940s and, with bitter brevity, described what had befallen the people struggling to survive on it.
Thorough reporting, brevity, originality and solid, unambiguous conclusions will remain Forbes characteristics.
It is a long and impressive list, two-dozen in all, and for the sake of brevity I chose to highlighted just a few.
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Questions will be tweeted immediately before the answer, and might therefore be edited for brevity.
Mr Paulson's plan is stunning in its brevity (two-and-a-half pages) and audacity.
The earmarks of his speech were sagacious brevity, theatrical elegance, and understated humor.
But as a blogger on Eastgate.com noted recently, that equates brevity with debased taste, and sees patience for long stories as a mark of high culture.
The resulting contract, signed in fall 2009, garnered national attention for its brevity, just 10 pages, and its establishment of a merit-based pay scale instead of guaranteed annual pay raises, prompting charter school administrators to issue a press release.
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For the sake of brevity, I will refer to NSC and WLE collectively as the lessees from this point forward.
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The brevity of his autobiography is both a strength and a weakness.
The very brevity of the two leaders' statement lent simplicity and force to that very simple message.
Part of that informality includes brevity -- tweets have a maximum capacity of 140 characters, and Facebook statuses can only be a few lines -- and the possibility of inaccurate information.
But if brevity is to be deplored, what should we make of haiku, sonnets, and ink-brush calligraphy?
They said the biggest thing about the GIF is how quickly it can be passed around, mostly due to the brevity of the content a loop of about a few seconds , and how simple the technology is.
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