Sentences with phrase «for pithy»

The world's most famous investor, Warren Buffett, is renowned for pithy yet wise one - liners.

Anne R. Allen If you're looking for pithy — even searing — writing on issues of top concern to self - published authors, you've got to read Anne R. Allen.

Yes, slap anything on the file name as you work, but always, as you work through the writing, search for that pithy phrase that capsulizes what you are trying to say.

But really, most people go to Twitter for pithy commentary, not aspirational images.

The Company You Keep isn't interested in any of the complex ideas at play in Sidney Lumet's masterful drama, although, coincidently, its title makes for a pithy review of Redford's effort.

Whether you're looking for pithy relationship advice or an outlet for your dating frustrations, this site undoubtedly has a list, quiz, or video to make you smile.

«There was no particular reason» for the pithy title, says Richard Sever, assistant director of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press in New York.

Going head - to - head with John Humphreys on the Today programme on Monday, Miliband showed his knack for the pithy soundbite as he urged Jeremy Corbyn not to back the government's plan to leave the single market.

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The best we could do was pithy back and forth emails and try to set a date that worked for everyone.

And then when I watch the trials and tribulations of a business like L.L. Bean, whose good - faith commitment and lifetime guarantees to customers have been shamelessly abused for years by flea market phonies, eBay a-holes and other crafty resale store shoppers, I remember that things become clichés, not because they're pithy phrases, but because they're sadly too true.

The gold - medal winner for most pithy stories about chocolate snack cakes, cookies and doughnuts in a single issue.

Sean Gourley, the founder and CEO of Primer, a 2.5 - year - old, previously media - shy startup that uses artificial intelligence algorithms to parse vast quantities of data and spit out pithy, navigable digests, is demonstrating his company's software for me in a midtown Manhattan office near the United Nations» headquarters.

In short, give people pithy and relevant context to help them remember you, and their memory banks are more likely to light up for the right reasons when you follow up later on.

I interviewed Butterfield, who splits his time between San Francisco and Vancouver, for the April issue of Maxim and came away with more pithy entrepreneurial insight than one magazine could contain.

The same is true for a lot of other big trends out there, which is why those sounding the alarm eventually settle on pithy / scary (if not -LSB-...]

The job creation thing worked for him, because he finally had pithy explanations.

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This pithy book would make an excellent resource for a sermon series, as well as for a study group.

Okay, forget the pithy comment and let's head straight for the confession.

I call myself an agnostically tinged neo-animist, for want of a pithier term.

He was, for the bright who were ready to hear, a classic gymnasium and German university education wrapped in pithy paragraphs.

Finding ourselves buried beneath a workload of administrative tasks, we forego a week of study and settle instead for a few pithy remarks on Sunday.

There are certain passages of the Bible that, for whatever reason, have been snagged by the vast religious bumper sticker industry and abbreviated into pithy little statements of fact with...

The almost complete absence of parables is hard to account for, and while allowance must be made for the tendency of the fourth evangelist to introduce into the discourses of Jesus the fruit of his own reflections and meditations, there is a striking difference between the style in which Jesus speaks in this gospel and that of the short pithy utterances of Jesus in the synoptic gospels.

It has sometimes been conjectured that, so far from being in itself a sermon, it is a collection of pithy sayings perhaps used by Jesus from time to time as texts for longer discourses to his followers.

Do the same with the lemon and blood orange peel, but carefully slice only the outer peel, leaving the pithy whites for the next step.

He has been recognized internationally for his creative wine programs over 2,500 wines all with pithy descriptions.

I pride myself on my ability to come up with clever and pithy nicknames for players, but I still have to tip my cap to my predecessor.

With pithy text and over 120 black and white drawings accented with red, it is ideal for sharing aloud and for emerging readers.

It's doubtful that many who disagree with Letts's worldview will decide to pick up the book, which is a shame for anyone looking to write similarly pithy and memorable images.

As a matter of fact we should have a grudging respect for the fact Lord Sewel maintained a pithy wit and good political judgement late at night while under the influence of drugs and drink.

11:20 Democratic Senate leader John Sampson is trying to be pithy: «Piecemeal is better than no meal but I'm ready for the main course.»

Reagan delivered a series of snappy pithy one - liners that contemporary conservatives, nostalgic for that season of swagger, like to wistfully remember and recite in defiance of their miserable state.

That prompted this pithy quip from Matt House, spokesman for Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer: «We couldn't have said it any better ourselves.»

,» says Dr. Kiltz who posts inspirational, pithy videos on Facebook in part to support and encourage women to eat low - carb high - fat foods for conception and pregnancy.

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One day, as I swiped my way through Tinder, a pithy line on someone's profile gave me pause: «If I was looking for a relationship, I would be on OkCupid.»

UK About Blog This blog is designed to encourage good theological education by posting quick to read, pithy articles which are fun to read but which also contain important issues for those who teach theology.

The character has no franchise potential, as the film opens with an epilogue - as - prologue about Poe's death, but maybe Cusack and his director, V for Vendetta's James McTeigue, were still hoping for that same kind of pithy, indelible hero.

Simon Kinberg's script is awash in banal, expository dialogue — the characters having to keep explaining the plot to each other — but people don't go to X-Men movies for naturalistic exchanges: a few pithy one - liners will suffice, and Jackman puts the ones he does get across with the gruff brio of an old pro.

The kind of character who spouts pithy lines like, «when science shits the bed, I'm the one they call to change the sheets,» with a smile on his face, Morgan's Russell is a definite winner in a film that already has a lot going for it.

There's also an English «audio description track» for the visually impaired (in which a woman delivers pithy descriptions of the on - screen action in a hurried voiceover layered atop a Dolby Digital 5.1 mix), plus a French Dolby Digital 5.1 track.

Leonard Maltin's video book, a once indispensable pre-internet reference tool for young, burgeoning cinephiles, gave it a shrug review and two pithy stars.

There's a vacuum between them onscreen that no amount of offhanded, pithy observation from Brand can make up for, and given the choice, you'd probably rather watch him interact with Garner and Mirren for the entire film.

On the other hand, I found little fault with Pellington's rich commentary track, a scattershot but ultimately rewarding marriage of thematic survey and production backstory embedded with a pithy defense for the practice of letterboxing.

Whilst elements of the presentation raise a smirk or even a giggle (including the alliteration efforts of Popper's pithy personal assistant, played by No Strings Attached's Ophelia Lovibond), and the titular creatures charm as anticipated, there's no mistaking this saccharine star vehicle for anything other than middle of the road school holiday fare that might even inspire a few pet purchases.

Predictable and pedestrian, albeit pithy and punchy, Mr Popper's Penguins is pitched at pleading pre-teens rather than put - upon parents, with the latter unlikely to be placated by Carrey's particular penchant for peculiar physical antics.

For example, on occasion one machine will indicate, in a roundabout sort of way, that he opposes the continuation of human life on Earth, whereupon the other machine will come back with a pithy riposte.

That's complete dishonesty I know but it just feels more insulting now, as if they're slapping us all in the face with a glove while delivering some pithy line about how everyone else is wrong and how dare us for questioning them.

If such scenes were a vector for more than pithy line readings, this would probably be more forgivable, but the movie finds its best humor in the friction grinding out from the idiosyncratic relational three - way between Krystal, Donny and Andy.