brevity

Somehow, the brevity of the message creates an inverse potential for misunderstanding.

The whole operation used a series of brevity codes from the Indian Wars, and Jimbo was a quarter Apache.

The use of “targeted” lends a smell of precision and, therefore, brevity, finality.

For the moment it seems churlish to knock an innocuous little history for its essential brevity and its inevitable lacunae.

Much was made last Friday in regards to the brevity of the press conference Mayor Ford held.

Let the student continue this comparison till he attains very nearly the brevity and discrimination displayed by Mr. Killick.

But if such brevity brings such an answer, so soon, why—it will fairly rain cows before we're many hours older.

In the same breath he sang of love and the grave, and the love was the more eager for its brevity.

A few unimportant elisions have been made for the sake of brevity and coherence.

But to pursue brevity of speech, and to avoid nice declarations of things, is to be granted to him that maketh an abridgment.