Sentences with phrase «in pithy»

Bois responds to Storr in a pithy corrective footnote in his «Marden's Doubt,» Brice Marden: Paintings 1985 - 1993 (Bern: Kunsthalle Bern, 1993), 65n59

And we're seeing it at what has to be some kind of peak moment in the pithy traveling survey called «Wangechi Mutu: A Fantastic Journey» at the Brooklyn Museum.»

Here, she gives us an account of her visit, in the pithy style of her diary, www.zabludowiczcollection.com:

If we had to describe Naughty Kitties in a pithy phrase, I guess we'd called it a «tower - defence endless - flyer.»

A start - up called Pluribo.com, launched in June, mines many hundreds of conflicting online reviews of Amazon's electronic products and delivers its own computer - generated judgments in pithy prose.

We giggled when a low - energy dancer had to be carried off stage by others in a pithy nod at the photoelectric effect.

Mr K H Power, a producer near Cloncurry, put the matter in this pithy manner: «I am a firm believer that to go past the first set of weighing scales is only foolhardiness as cattle lose weight, bruising increases and returns diminish».

Appropriate to the dedication of that college, they contain in a pithy sentence the inner essence of the priesthood.

It is the question that is implicitly contained in the pithy Greek aphorism inscribed across the portico of the temple of Apollo at Delphi: «know thyself».

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

Alice Walker, in a pithy essay titled «One Child of One's Own,» called her single daughter a «meaningful digression,» and that's right in many ways; if she had borne five children, she probably wouldn't have been writing many books.

Multi-tasking is a myth: I've ended up doing everything at once and nothing well, and I think in pithy status updates instead of real thoughts.

The state of the academy, conflicts of feminisms, pro «choice denial of choice, and why journalists behave as they do are among the myriad subjects address ed in these pithy essays on a culture that is, Mr. Leo regretfully notes, gravely wayward.

Not exact matches

As an entrepreneur, you surely have an elevator pitch, the pithy 15 - second synopsis of what your company does and why, and you can all but repeat it in your sleep.

In an interview with STAT News, Manchin offered nothing but pithy solutions and ideological dog whistles to the White House.

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.

Zuckerberg said of the self - made billionaire: «Peter was the person who told me this really pithy quote: «In a world that's changing so quickly, the biggest risk you can take is not taking any risk.»

But Axios's Jonathan Swan and Mike Allen had a pithy sentence to describe where things are now: «Trump is in a bad, mad place.»

To make gains among these voters, Republicans needed to make detailed (but pithy) arguments about what was wrong with Obamacare and the benefits of Republican health care policy X (read National Affairs to get an idea of some of the things they could have said), and do so in plain language.

It is in reality 500 pages of pithy sermons upon the verses of the epistle taken in order.

Early on, even Jeremiah could have located himself somewhere within Frederick Buechner's pithy essay on vocation in Wishful Thinking.

Many strands of the subsequent history of the Bible in American public life can be connected with this pithy summary.

In the last poignant section of his Pastoral Care Gregory provides a pithy summary of the complex balance needed to foster virtue without inadvertently encouraging vice.

What they meant by this pithy phrase (only two words in Hebrew, zeki bi) was «Put a coin in my hand, and it will be as though you have funded a treasury in heaven.»

That's why I've always appreciate Lewis» pithy advice, quoted in this month's cover feature «Exorcism Unmasked» (p28): «There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about the devils.

In the 19th century, Henry Ward Beecher and, in the 20th, William Temple both left us pithy comments on the distinction between religion and ChristianitIn the 19th century, Henry Ward Beecher and, in the 20th, William Temple both left us pithy comments on the distinction between religion and Christianitin the 20th, William Temple both left us pithy comments on the distinction between religion and Christianity.

All of these world views and the syncretistic Christian combination of them had long been peppered with pithy slogans, golden rules, words of wisdom, etc., which range from Socrates» Know thyself to Christ's If you lose the world, you gain it and on to Nothing in excess and Treat every human as an end in itself.

In Whitehead's pithy phrase: «The many become one, and are increased by one» (21).

I've been trying to come up with a pithy response that encapsulates the spirituality of being Catholic (which I suppose exists in other organized religions).

And, Ralph Hancock has weighed in with some rather pithy....

Every billboard or church sign with some pithy message signed «God» is apparently evil now, since we've decided Palin can't do it in a pretty darned respectable way.

The Jesus of endless one - liners or short pithy sayings or even of modest social reforms was highly unlikely to cleanse the temple or get himself crucified during one of the major Jewish feasts, and certainly unlikely to generate the variety of Christologies one finds in the New Testament.

A lot of the country hears almost nothing of what the center - right has to say and what they do hear in nonsense about job creators who really did «build that» and some bromides about «opportunity» that were unmoored from anything in their own lives What they have never heard is a pithy explanation about why any policy would make their lives better.

And, Ralph Hancock has weighed in with some rather pithy observations in his post, A Modest Meditation..., that also requires a response.

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.

Interestingly, you can see in the photo below the large banners in the atrium featured pictures of and quotes from church members, not just the pastor's pithy sayings or the church logo.

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.

Indeed, the sheer novelty of the process is MycoTechnology's USP, but also something that makes it hard to deliver a pithy elevator pitch, says Hahn, who was talking to FoodNavigator - USA after MycoTechnology struck its first major deal in the stevia market this week.

Throw in the easy - going and pithy Andrew Bogut, the «I get buckets» approach from David Lee and the rabid fan base of the Bay Area behind this team, and you've got something that's hard not to love.

Ottmar Hitzfeld UEFA Champions League - winning coach in 1997 and 2001 who famously lost to Ferguson in 1999 My pithiest memory of our many encounters was the 1999 UEFA Champions League final.

In the past we've tried weekly video updates, which seemed popular but weren't easy to keep short and pithy.

The word «proverb» in the original Hebrew text is mashal and defined as a parable, prophetic and figurative discourse, symbolic poem, pithy maxim (i.e.a collection of wise metaphors and adages).

As a «final» argument to a discussion, one of the characters uttered a very pithy phrase: «The Constitution is not a suicide pact», which kind of settled the discussion in a way.

Though he is pithy at times, he is more often than not likely to pursue a thought as if in conversation with the reader, at his best when describing those closest to him — as in doting on his baby son Leo, «a pocket - size piece of benign innocence.»

(CNN)- Kentucky's two U.S. Senate candidates traded pithy barbs Saturday at a dual campaign stop in the midst of a race with national implications.

«Buy shares in Emily Thornberry,» was the verdict of one former Tory special adviser after the shadow foreign secretary impressed onlookers with searching questions and pithy one - liners.

They should take a Republican nomination from a qualified candidate and lose it in a landslide every year until the Republican Party is nothing but a pithy pulp in New York State.

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.