Sentences with phrase «makes pithy»

Everyone who wants to sound smart in the real estate community makes this pithy statement with a smug air of worldly knowledge.

Loathe as I am to give credit where credit is due, Stephen King, in his weekly column for ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY, makes the pithy observation that the majority of DVD extras, particularly commentaries, are not just horrific but also perhaps included only to distract from how bored we are with the actual movie.

I pictured my bacteria saying to each other, «We can not undergo binary fission in the beaker of someone who makes pithy observations at open - mic nights!

Michelle Obama has a history of making pithy, inspirational remarks.

If you need to lump everyone into one column and make pithy remarks to feel better about yourself, then so be it.

is tepid and timeworn and without any of the sociological bite that would have made it pithy instead of just puerile.

I think the film dabbles with an element that could have made it a pithy and less forgettable comedy — to see how those who grew up in the «me generation» struggle with the lives they ended up having when they became as old as their parents.

An experienced executive will be able to make a pithy statement about top - level skills.

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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.»

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.

The author knows how to make an impact, often using short pithy sentences to good effect: «Peace of soul is the tranquility of order; an ordered heart, an ordered life according to God's precepts» (p. 55).

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

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.

It is finally a relief to know that reading one more book, contemplating one more pithy saying, meditating on one more piece of scripture, doing one more good deed — none of these is going to make the difference.

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.

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.

In its latest monthly bulletin, The Splice of Life, it carried a pithy but predictable rant about the iniquities of the recent Ciba Foundation conference in London which explored possible links between genetic make up and crime.

Riggs put all his energy into grandstanding, supplying pithy commentary about how he intended to put the «show» back in «chauvinism,» and generally making a mockery of the face - off, with a goal of drumming up attention.

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'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.

There's plenty of corn to go around: big speeches and pithy comebacks abound, but what makes him such an engaging screenwriter is just as prevalent here as it was in The Social Network.

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.

Shaky handheld camerawork during raucous party scenes and an overwrought emotional score feel too prescriptive, and although there are a number of pithy one - liners that might raise a titter, it lacks the wit which made Wilde the toast of London in his prime.

What Maguire lacks in humility he makes up for in dry wit («This is Times Square... Burbank»), and for all his movie - star petulance (sustained grudges about the day they made a cast of his torso and the unreliability of the Spidey costume's zipper), he redeems himself in such pithy summaries of his good fortune as his closing statement: «It's cool to play Spider - Man.»

John Carpenter's Escape From L.A. harks back to its 1981 prequel, Escape From New York, updated by the commercial gospel according to Schwarzenegger: assuming that pithy, bubblegum one - liners are what audiences expect to hear from macho desperado Snake Plissken (Kurt Russell), this film furnishes one or two per action sequence, honoring the contract even though Russell often makes the lines sound flat and obligatory.

The volume is titled The Testing Charade: Pretending to Make Schools Better (U. Chicago Press, 2017), which is a pretty pithy summation of his argument.

So I put down some pithy lines and attempted to make them punchy.

I can't deal with all the pithy catchphrases and «Be Gretchen» slogans, but I would probably benefit from a simplified version of her approach: just observing what things make me feel happy, not in the short term, but in my life over time.

Personally, I rather like the pithy user comment above the apology post: «If you are going to have always on DRM, make sure your DRM is always f*cking on.»

[17] During the mid-1970s, he made a series of drawings in pastel using pithy phrases against a field of colour.

Traveled to Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Santa Monica Museum of Art, CA; Forum for Contemporary Art, St. Louis; and American Center, Paris (catalogue) 1992 5th Anniversary Show, Karsten Schubert Ltd., London Psycho, Kunsthall, New York Nayland Blake, Richmond Burton, Peter Cain, and Gary Hume, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York 1991 Something Pithier and More Psychological, Simon Watson, New York Someone or Somebody, Meyers / Bloom Gallery, Los Angeles Paintings and Drawings, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Vertigo: The Remake, Galerie Thaddeaus Ropac, Salzburg Just what is it that makes today's homes so different, so appealing?

In fact, I've compiled a brand new book on the subject - although, alas, Doctors LÃ 1/4 ning and Vahrenholt's pithy summation is too late to make the cut.

Anyone who has labored to make every paragraph of marketing content as pithy and precise as possible immediately understands Pascal's statement.

Why is it that many judicial decisions are packed full of money quotes, those pithy little paragraphs that make the decision pop off the page, while by contrast, so many legal briefs, even those that would garner an «A» in writing, are serviceable, plodding and dull?

If we made judges write their judgements long - hand, they'd be concise, pithy and about five pages long.

That said, with pithy, «mobile» headlines and sub-headlines that can be adjusted and re-fit from time to time to meet the nuanced needs of various positions as well as a few swap - out achievements and / or other key language, a candidate can be nimble in making slight variations when submitting for various opportunities.

Make the speech or bio pithy.

If you're going to make one, at least be pithy and original.