But brevity is the soul of wit, and Lemoine's well-crafted divertissements have enchanted theatregoers for the past 22 years. |
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He did so with an ability, clarity and, given the mass of material, brevity for which we both thank and commend him. |
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Ideas are sketched in and elaborated with breathtaking, sometimes mind-boggling brevity. |
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The sequence is thus all the more powerful for its brevity and understatement. |
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Like many unprolific authors he has acquired an undeserved reputation for brevity. |
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Aside from the brevity of the story, what intrigued us was how narky it was. |
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The initial sections are tight little vignettes whose brevity lends them a narrative crispness. |
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This brevity and intensity of focus leads to a succinct cinematic statement. |
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We have condensed the ideas into our own words, for the sake of brevity and clarity. |
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In spite of its brevity, it is the most comprehensive summary listing that I have seen in print. |
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Strengths of the book are its brevity, the lively, incisive writing, and the authors' willingness to take a stand. |
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In the interests, I imagine, of brevity, those last two words have been omitted in later editions. |
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A customer who responds positively to a cleverly worded e-mail may prefer brevity and clarity in voice mail messages. |
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This election campaign, which thanks to its brevity has been heated from the start, is not going to the strategists' plans. |
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By its brevity, that one word expands to fill the scene, and remains as an indelible memory. |
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It benefits from its clear writing style, its many examples, and its brevity. |
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He explains, Americans are conditioned to equate visual brevity with success and power. |
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There were other items in the agreement that have been omitted for brevity. |
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In spite of its brevity, it still remains a fine specimen of how a group of fragmentary ideas can be moulded into a unified whole. |
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The brevity of the short film format, sadly, undermines the good intentions of the filmmakers. |
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If there was one thing that disappointed me it was the apparent brevity of the show. |
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Indeed, the only thing particularly remarkable about the story is it relative brevity. |
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The brevity of the counseling intervention may have been insufficient to affect change. |
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This is a haunting and powerful piece, all the more effective for its relative brevity. |
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Considered as a whole, the seams do show cuts were made in the interests of brevity. |
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We're not showing the output for reasons of brevity, but you could try it on your own. |
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Both of their guitars seem to be learning that brevity is the soul of wit, and discretion that of power. |
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He brings a surprising amount of brevity and clarity to his performance, outacting many of his Hollywood contemporaries. |
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Because of its extreme brevity, it has been used both as a summary statement of Mahyna truth, and as a liturgical and ritual text. |
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Their brevity has led to a system of text message abbreviations being devised, mixing numbers, symbols and capital letters. |
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These categories are clumsy and incomplete, but I'm hoping you can deduce what I mean for the sake of brevity here. |
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In those Wisconsin cram sessions, we're told the emphasis has been on persuadability and brevity. |
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Welles liked the brevity and compactness, the swiftness and shock of a good short story. |
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Plat's writings were valued for their compendiousness, and also for their accuracy, brevity, and clarity. |
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Consisting of a scant 17 lines, only 3 of which contain more than 3 words, the poem displays her penchant for brevity and enjambment. |
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We live in an age when attention deficit disorder is rife amongst adults and children alike and brevity is a prized quality. |
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It's dance music coming out of a background of hardcore punk where brevity is part of our thing. |
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I hope that the brevity of this war does not convince Americans that we can lick anybody on the block. |
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These are only a tiny fraction of the theories given by Arab viewers but, for the sake of brevity, I will not recount them all. |
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Jin does not endow his protagonist with high powers of lyricism, brevity or a particularly happy ending. |
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I'd say that is because it is a model of brevity and clarity. |
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You might say that it's a true history of the subject, making allowance for its brevity and its focus on Lincoln's contemporary rather than on Lincoln himself. |
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But in the interest of brevity I now leave this short summary as it is. |
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So, in the interest of brevity, here's a quick rundown of what sucked. |
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Conversely, the shorter numbers are often stifling in their brevity. |
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Imagine the exclamatory brevity that space travel writing might bring. |
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He searched for the right words to relay this information with brevity. |
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A little brevity, a modicum of content, and a lot less rant would be good. |
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She attempts to counter mounting evidence by discounting prophecies, but the brevity, the peremptoriness of her responses to his anguished questions is striking. |
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The 900-page books aside, we applaud brevity, speed and quick thinking. |
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In the interest of brevity, we decided to reduce the initial item pool. |
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In part, this effect is due to the brevity and conciseness of each topic, another characteristic of this book that I found appealing and refreshing. |
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The need for brevity made Lincoln pack a great deal into few words. |
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Its brevity and limited depth really hurts, rather than helps it. |
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Deliver intelligent and incisive points, well made and expressed with sublime brevity, with great import for the organisation and relevant to all present. |
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The brevity and baldness of the message filled me with vague concern. |
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The whole operation used a series of brevity codes from the Indian Wars, and Jimbo was a quarter apache. |
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Somehow, the brevity of the message creates an inverse potential for misunderstanding. |
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Much was made last Friday in regards to the brevity of the press conference Mayor Ford held. |
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Now, I want the easiness of poetry, the brevity of the poem. |
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A good technical writing style will now be defined as a style possessing clarity, brevity, and variety. |
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As a result, it can be used with a pithiness and brevity unknown in English. |
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Though he reflects on the brevity and meaninglessness of life, he nevertheless awaits the English and fortifies Dunsinane. |
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The nomenclature is equally significant, and its aim is to combine definitive exactness with a brevity that is indeed laconic. |
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This principle of preservation, I have called, for the sake of brevity, Natural Selection. |
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It forms part of a marketing strategy, where its brevity is seen as beneficial. |
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At Rome, when Sallust was the fashionable writer, short sentences, uncommon words, and an obscure brevity, were affected as so many elegances. |
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The brevity of the account and occasional gaps in the record have led historians to speculate and dispute many details of the voyage. |
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Perhaps her genius is best appreciated in her sly, aphoristic brevity. |
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The Augustinian Rule, due to its brevity, has been adopted by various communities, chiefly the Canons Regular. |
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There is nothing of the artificial Johnsonian balance in his style. It is as often marked by a pregnant brevity as by a sonorous amplitude. |
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The verbose Labourite, a stranger to brevity, must've delivered his shorter speech. |
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Variations of the Eucharistic Prayer are provided for various occasions, including communion of the sick and brief forms for occasions that call for greater brevity. |
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On the one hand, some scholars stressed the unidimensional nature of consumer trust in that unidimensionality has the advantages of brevity, simplicity, and generalizability. |
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