briefness

As The Daily Mail points out: “the briefness of the Mavericks new ensembles could raise some eyebrows.”

It was written practically during the battle, so you must excuse its apparent briefness.

For his leisure, you are commanded to the greater briefness, as his place is of greater discharges and cares.

This gives one a realizing sense of the frailness of a Mississippi boat and the briefness of its life.

It was nervous, tingling work, for as surely as I sensed his intention of briefness, just as surely had he sensed mine.

The men holding the hatch-cover seemed perplexed, puzzled no doubt by the briefness of the ceremony.