briefness

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The briefness of the January burn was attributed to the hydraulic system associated with one of the engines; that system apparently exceeded conservatively preset limits in one parameter, triggering a shutdown, investigators determined.

From Scientific American • Mar. 19, 2021

The briefness of female fertility is, she chips in sympathetically, “a bummer. It’s just a real, real pickle.”

From The Guardian • Nov. 15, 2018

I sat down in late 2015/early 2016 to begin Autumn, a novel whose title already meant that the Keatsian bright briefness of life would be a core element of its atmosphere.

From The Guardian • Oct. 14, 2017

Perhaps the briefness of the elf’s presence—most parents bring it out sometime after Thanksgiving—keeps it from conditioning children to tolerate, even expect, constant surveillance.

From Slate • Dec. 14, 2011

Coming from the lips of her father, Steve accepted gravely, with a matching briefness that could not hide a surge of triumph.

From Then I'll Come Back to You by Evans, Larry