Sentences with phrase «such pithy»

C. S. Lakin presents Words of Advice from Famous Authors That Are Just Wrong posted at Live Write Thrive, saying, «Writers are wont to take advice to heart, especially if such pithy advice comes from a famous author.

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.»

Less endearing, but more interesting, is the apathy that emerges in such pithy statements as «I used to try to be interesting... now I try to be pleasant and on time.»

(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.)

Not exact matches

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.

If such scenes were a vector for more than pithy line readings, this would probably be more forgivable, but the movie finds its best humor in the friction grinding out from the idiosyncratic relational three - way between Krystal, Donny and Andy.

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.

But perhaps my favorite pithy summation of this deeply problematic issue, which of course is directly lifted from the book but brought to fetishizable life in the film, comes from Anthony Lane's New Yorker review, which never drips with such finely - wrought, Wildean disdain as in this passage:

Arranged in chronological order, the poems focus on objects ranging from concrete, such as the red wheelbarrow and white chickens in William Carlos Williams» well - known Imagist poem, to abstract, like Lord Byron's elegant and pithy ode to the letter e: «The beginning of eternity, the end of time and space / the beginning of every end, and the end of every place.»

The first and last poems discuss the opening and closing of a farmers» market, while the others are pithy odes to such food items as corn, farm - fresh eggs, okra, blueberries, and wild honey.

You'll find a link to read or write reviews near the top of any blog's detail page, just below some pithy line such as: «The Kindling point for thousands of Amazon Kindle owners.»

The review included such sentiments as «Wow, this looks like crap,» and ended with this pithy observation:

Obliterating these environmental structures nets a pithy amount of experience towards leveling up, but additionally can yield items such as gear, gold items that are exchanged for in - game cash, or the occasional overly - combative sewer rat.

Of course, the concept that governments exaggerate threats in order for the populace to clamor to be led to safety is Mencken at his pithiest, and such sentiment is not in particularly short supply here at Cato!

In a culture ruled by virality, pithy memes like #IDontNeedFeminism threaten to have more firepower than sober observations — such as those of the former chief judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, Patricia M. Wald — that gender inequality in cultures like the legal profession owes less to overt discrimination, and more to «subtle differences in how much more difficult it can be for women to locate and manipulate the levers of personal influence inside and outside the firm, with supervisors, senior partners, and clients.»