Examples of brevity in the following topics:
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- Consider brevity.
- Brevity doesn't mean being short just to be short, however.
- Instead, brevity consists in using precisely the words which convey what you're thinking — and no more.
- The most potent lesson I ever learned about brevity in writing took place in Seoul, Korea, in 1978.
- Here are four tips for achieving brevity in your business writing:
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- Humor, anecdote, and brevity are notable qualities of these types of speeches.
- It's important to remember that brevity is your friend in all of these situations: no one likes a toast that goes on forever while the champagne bubbles go flat.
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- We could resolve this issue by transforming these variables (e.g. using a log-transformation), but we will omit this further investigation for brevity.
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- To respect others' time, communication should aim for brevity and concision without sacrificing clarity and completeness.
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- The two numbers are equivalent—trailing all-zero components can always be dropped for brevity—but when a qualifier is present, brevity is out the window anyway, so one might as well go for completeness instead.
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- Masaccio is widely regarded as the first Renaissance painter of the Italian Quattrocento, and despite the brevity of his career, had the most profound influence on his successors.
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- Masaccio is best known for his frescoes in the Brancacci Chapel, in which he employed techniques of linear perspective such as the vanishing point for the first time, and had a profound influence on other artists despite the brevity of his career.
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- Virtually all still lifes had a moralistic message, usually concerning the brevity of life.
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- Even after we've achieved brevity and clarity in our business writing, our efforts to communicate effectively can be undermined by errors in grammar, spelling, punctuation, and word choice.
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- Still life paintings often had an underlying moralistic message concerning the brevity of life, a trait exemplified by the "vanitas."