What is "briefer"

Usage examples of "briefer".

Displayed on the immense luminous wall screen behind the briefer was a planform depiction of the planetary system.

During this period, Turner was not permitted to see friends, relatives, or counsel, was never informed of his right to remain silent, and was interrogated daily, though for briefer intervals than in the preceding case.

Celine was taken on a barge tour through the canals, a brisk view of the Dam Palace and the Dam Square, lunch in the Bijenkorf store, so that they could have a quick look round its enticing wares, a glimpse of the Beginjnhof, a group of charming almshouses tucked away behind Kalverstraat, and an even briefer glimpse of the Rijksmuseum, but only from the outside.

True, in the light of the rising sun, he and Harold had seen a part of the intervening ground seem for a brief instant to look like muddy, swirling, rushing river water, with an even briefer flickering beyond it of tall, slab-like walls that might have been a part of the Gamebird Project Facility, but that had been all which had occurred.

He watched her climb up to her taxi, feeling a spasm of hopeless rage, briefer than a borborygm, at the last sight of her neatly moving buttocks.

As the food shortages became more prevalent, their exchanges had become briefer and not as warm as they had once been.

Concha, and then told his tale over again in a briefer, blunter manner.

It was always the same briefer from Corps Arty and it was one reason that the daily dog and pony show was a must avoid for most of the senior officers that might otherwise attend.

Yet its main character can be imparted in a much briefer space than the old black woman took to give all its details.

Hedrick's thinking,' the briefer replied as respectfully as he could, 'but we suspect he is inviting only governments that would not enmesh him in litigation over the ownership of the saucer.

He was a good spook because he was brief, and the briefer they are the easier it is to understand and remember what they're telling you.

Rumsfeld, who was sitting at a far end of the table, paid close attention though he kept asking the briefers to please speak up, or please speak louder.

When the briefers were gone and he and Jake were alone, Albert Sidney Brown rumbled, "They'll never come up with hard intelligence.

He might have guessed it, the briefers were like all briefers: screwed up.

The nice clean surgical strike that the Pentagon briefers likened to the sure, precise prick of a rapier had turned into a radioactive bludgeon.