Briefer Sentence Examples

It gives a very brief exegesis, briefer even than Baker's.

Several important swords were discovered by heroes in The Hobbit, the briefer 'prequel' to The Lord of the Rings.

On the whole, the story of Isaac's wife at Gerar is briefer and not so elevated as that of Sarah, but the parallel to xxi.

Possibly this fact points to his Marcan document having been briefer than our Mark, and to its having afterwards received interpolations (see Mark, Gospel Of St).

Some people do enjoy chatting with the same person regularly, but others prefer briefer connections.

Based on Pasternak's training experience, he came to the conclusion that it is more effective to work out often for briefer periods of time rather than hours at the gym.

The bottoms of the teddy emulate the boy briefer underpants that so many women like to wear.

The answer from her Watcher was far briefer than its normal exchanges.

The few next to be mentioned, being of smaller size (octavo), may be within reach of more persons, and, therefore, can be passed over in a briefer fashion without detriment.

Wellhausen's briefer work (3rd ed., 1898) is especially suggestive for textual criticism.

On the other hand, it may be true that an impression of a briefer period of ministry naturally results, and in early generations did actually result, from the synoptic account considered as a whole.

In August 1581 he was sent on a second and briefer mission to Paris.

Such is the account of the Saga of Eric the Red, supported by a number of briefer references in early Icelandic and other literature.

The former has a somewhat briefer text, the latter agrees more closely with the Hebrew text.

There are several excellent harbours (notably that of Ytternas), which were at one time of great importance to Russia from the fact that they are frozen up for a much briefer period than those on the coast of Finland.

The statement about Matthew is much briefer and is harder to interpret.

The former and briefer aims simply to expose the errors of Marcellus, whom Eusebius accuses of Sabellianism, the latter to refute them.