Sentences with phrase «of pithy»

Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has», and just came across another of her pithy aphorisms, «Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do.

The metaphor sparked a couple of pithy comments from Twitter and blogging leadership professionals, Meghan Biro (@MeghanMBiro) and Dawn Lennon (@businessfit).

We are lucky that Einstein left a rich legacy of pithy quotes that reveal how he would probably relate to today's cult of global warming alarmists.

Some of the old favorite text artists were in attendance, work that has been diminished by the constant posting of pithy posters on Facebook and other social media.

Once again, another home - run of pithy one - liners.

What is it, then, that elevates the nominally similar work of David Hammons (b. 1943)-- a MacArthur «genius grant» winner in 1991 — so far above the pack that it seems as if he's landed from another planet, equipped with X-ray vision and telepathy, hoisting our foibles about race and class with a variety of pithy petards?

It's these sort of pithy physics that dictate how hero Jack Joyce will move, as barely any semblance of momentum governs anything, and the game neglects to give you a shadow to show where he'll land.

There are lots of pithy little ways to summarize the lesson: Cost matters.

Chuck Wendig's blog is wonderful — plenty of pithy tips about writing, plenty of encouragement.

Lawyer and indie commentary blog, The Passive Voice, now has a good selection of pithy t - shirts as well.

It was also clear that presenters and participants feel empowered by gains in awareness in recent years and the fact that family engagement is now part of pithy education discussions.»

Look past its uninspiring interface, and you'll find just this kind of pithy talk.

Each week, the magazine provides a caption-less drawing — usually depicting a weird scenario with no real joke implied — and asks their readers to produce one of those pithy, esoteric punchlines the magazine...

From James Bond to Jason Bourne via Rambo and whatever variation of his screen persona Arnold Schwarzenegger happened to be playing at any particular moment, the genre was dominated by slap - happy chappies - typically toting a rocket launcher and bottomless supply of pithy wisecracks.

Still, Collateral certainly ranks as one of the best thrillers of recent years, drawing a wealth of entertainment from its meager storyline through terrific characterizations and the occasional moment of pithy contemplation.

The upshot of this loopy masquerade is more predictable than it is progressive, but considerably pleasurable thanks to Morris's generous supply of pithy one - liners and the resourceful, ribald skills of Bell, as engaging and elastic a comic everywoman here as she was in her impressive directorial debut «In a World...» (Her styling, meanwhile, calls to mind Sally Hawkins, who could well have put a sweeter spin on the same role.)

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.

Based on British novelist Allison Pearson's best - seller of the same name, the film is rather reminiscent of Bridget Jones» Diary, as it revolves around a series of pithy journal entries recounted by an introspective protagonist.

Thing is, though, the jokes still kill: Baumbach has become a master of the pithy punchline, and he's loaded his latest with plenty of hilarious sideline gags.

Orlando Bloom was given something of a pithy role in comparison to these two, and he did Musketeer out at the end (feathered hat and all), but he's got a charm all his own that takes the mush out of the love - story, and replaces it with something a little bit more tolerable.

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.

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.

Additionally a great teach abides by an code of ethics, approaches their training professionally, and has an ability to command the language in which they teacher — which means pitch, pace, volume, and the craft of pithy instruction.

Plant - genome scientists offer a variety of definitions, few of them pithy.

He sliced his distinctions so thick he left a vapor trail of pithy spin and sharp - elbowed one - liners.

Oh, and get as much of the pithy center out as you can.

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.

Here's its prosaic but kind of pithy summary of what I said there on Constitution Day: Dr. Peter Lawler argued that Locke's ideas fit the Mystery Passage [Planned Parenthood v.....

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

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

These may be outliers, but the comics culture, for lack of a pithier way to say «people who buy comics,» is much larger than 200,000 people.

The use of the pithier quote really picked up in the 2000s.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.»

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-...]

First, while Republicans should appear on mainstream media news programs as often as possible and with the pithiest message possible that is aimed to persuadables, there are limits to the benefits of this approach.

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 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.

Your message pithy and - on the face of it - very good.

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).

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

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.

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.

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.

For example, criticism of the gospels has been enhanced through study of the chreia, a short and pithy saying recorded and attributed to a famous character because it was regarded as useful for living.

(WCB 415) This pithy summary of doctrine comes from...