Sentences with phrase «pithy sayings»
"Pithy sayings" typically refer to concise and insightful statements or proverbs that are short, yet packed with meaning or wisdom. Full definition
The three - ring binder Frosty gives each player contains innumerable pithy sayings such as PLU magic can perform miracles and The longer we play, the better we get.
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These days we're see a lot of maternity tees with pithy sayings or belly hugging maternity t - shirts with graphic designs on them.
Instead of the characteristic parables and pithy sayings about the kingdom of God in the Synoptic Gospels, John gives a series of long discourses concerned mainly with the exalted nature of Jesus himself.
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.
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.
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.
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.
So forget pithy sayings such as, «Elementary, my dear Watson,» the new and improved Sherlock Holmes is more inclined to gloat as he doles out damage, spitting out lines like, «Weaken right jaw.
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.
The Udana or «pithy sayings» is a collection consisting of eight sections of ten sayings each.
The unusual occurrence has inspired riffs on the holiday like «menurkeys» (turkey - shaped menorahs), funny T - shirts (a turkey holding a sign that says, «Eat latkes»), pithy sayings («Gobble tov!»)
It can refer to the essence, the most important point of an argument, as well as a concise way of of writing, «a pithy saying.»
If you can find a short, pithy saying that supports your practice, that's another matter.