And he would be as brief, but specific, in the "what can improve" category.

The textual history is relatively brief and simple in itself.

Her periods away from the action zone were brief in every instance, three or four days at most.

On this the debtor's evidence is brief in the extreme.

They are often intense but can be brief in duration.

But when it's over, it seems so brief in retrospect.

She made her messages very brief in case he got impatient.

The experience can be brief in physical time, or it can go on for hours.

I shall be brief, and yet exact, in the little which remains for me to tell.

I can be brief in answer to this question.