Sentences with phrase «not pithy»

Improving the lives of children, families, and communities is not a pithy catchphrase.

The perfect peach should be fragrant, golden, juicy, soft but not pithy.

This isn't a pithy little feature designed to cash in on recession anxiety.

Not exact matches

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.

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.»

Last but not least comes a pithy analysis by Jeff Rubin, CIBC's former chief economist.

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-...]

There's always Jason Byassee's profound reflection http://www.firstthings.com/article/2007/12/001-not-your-fathers-pornography-12, but how do condense that to a few pithy sentences that convey a pungent, «you shall not...»?

Not as pithy as the quote being debated, but the point seems quite clear...

Yah, who cares about silly laws you do nt like, or employees, they are little pithy things anyways, your way better than them OR the law... really, you need to do what is best to maximise your profits... to huck with society.

Not at all Naked... it seems to me very difficult to have lengthy discussions of researched science, math, philosophy, archaeology, etc. etc. on a blog that by its very nature is fraught with personal biting comments (like yours) and pithy responses.

I would love to write some pithy comment to jab at Billy Graham, but sparing with a delusional sick old man is not my style.

Calling these acts by pithy acronyms or pontificating about consent don't remove the inherent violence and evil of them.

We relegate ourselves to pithy «anonymous» statements instead of actually taking the time to carry on serious and informed dialogue between those who do and do not ascribe to a religious tradition.

They had already determined that evolution could not be true based on their religious convictions, and so any logical or scientific inconsistencies within the young earth creationism model were dismissed with a shrug of the shoulders and a pithy statement about the mysteries of God.

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.

That doesn't mean I have to wear pithy buttons and plaster bumper stickers on my car.

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.

It is closer to a collection of books, but even that is not accurate, as most of the «books» are not «books» at all, but are letters, or chronicles of events, or even collections themselves of poems and pithy sayings.

However, true forgiveness can't come from a pithy statement, but rather, an all - powerful God.

Citing the pithy expression Martin Buber attributes to the Rabbi of Kock, idolatry occurs when a face addresses a face that is not a face.

Whoever said you were pithy at all, let alone the «pithiest», doesn't know what pithy means.

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.

The pithy dude who wasn't at all concerned with political correctness or worrying about accidentally offending someone.

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.

It's short (something that can't be said about any of my posts) and pithy and hit me right between the eyes because it's the essence of why parenting's so hard emotionally.

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

My pithy newsletter promises to alleviate your burden (not add to it!)

They toss out pithy, encouraging advice like: «Don't panic!

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.»

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.

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

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!

He asks skeptical questions, feeds Jack some overly symbolic lamb stew and offers pithy insights: «You can not deny the existence of hell,» he says, «You live in it.»

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.

Julian Mitchell's script freely doles out all kinds of pithy, self - conscious bon mots among its cast, but doesn't bother to flesh out convincingly the emotional conflicts and dramas in which the characters find themselves.

Each side has a story to tell, and a team of talented directors (including the excellent Michelle MacLaren) weave an intricate story that doesn't rely on super-hero violence, pithy comebacks, or a troupe of Mary Janes to sell its story.

While pithy, the term isn't quite right: In the 45 years since her first uncredited on - screen appearance, at age 6 in her mother's film White Lightning, Dern has amassed one of the most consistently interesting bodies of work in Hollywood.

And conoisseurs of Marvel's pithy putdowns will not be disappointed, with Infinity War «s enhanced stakes and universe - threatening subject matter doing nothing to dampen the enthusiasm of the quippiest superheroes ever created.

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.

Modern Romance is nothing terribly novel, and doesn't really seem to have any real point of view, although there are some pithy insights that do emerge from time to time within the modest story.

(I'm not so sure a girl Anna's can come up with such pithy zingers so quickly; it's one thing to be a smartass, and quite another to be a smart ass.)

An update on Tennessee Williams» A Streetcare Named Desire, it isn't essential to have seen that work on stage to enjoy this pithy homage from Woody Allen.

It's not funny, because it's trying hard to be cute and then also pithy and then also political and self - aware, and it's impossible for so many things to simultaneously occupy the same space.

While it's fun to see them assemble their crew, pithy platitudes on finding one's tribe don't dig down deep enough.

A closer examination of the similarities pithy but perhaps unfruitful, sufficed to say that revisiting Wolfgang Petersen's masterpiece Das Boot (in its Director's Cut form) at this suspended moment in time is not only rewarding as great cinema can be, but also current and amazingly poignant.

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.

While it isn't always pithy, it works, mostly because we really do like the characters.

We say the pithy statement, «You can't be what you don't see.