How To Use Pithily In A Sentence
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I found my page and there was a photo of myself and underneath it my talents were pithily described.
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Mr Zehnder puts it slightly more pithily: "If you work here, you bust your ass all week.
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My wife pithily suggested that I might try to do the same!
Frustrating artist « Write Anything
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Jean-Paul Sartre pithily summed up the French attitude in 1953: ‘America has rabies.’
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A headline in The Economist at the time tried to sum up the situation more pithily : "Japan's amazing ability to disappoint" (see article).
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To put it more pithily: ‘Popular speech never needs defending.’
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she expressed herself pithily
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Gandhi pithily expressed his deep yearning in 1936 to Maurice Frydman, a Polish engineer, while discussing the village reconstruction movement.
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And Gertrude retaliates in kind when she punningly and pithily retorts: ‘We shall as soon get a fart from a dead man as a farthing of courtesy here.’
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As the late Samuel Johnson put it quite pithily, how strange that we should hear such loud cries for liberty coming from the drivers of black men.
Matthew Yglesias » Endgame
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Percy's remark has long resonated with me because he so pithily nails an essential issue: reality is too big, mysterious, strange, and surprising for a merely materialistic explanation.
Science
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In a phrase that pithily captured the problems of her relationship with Prince Charles she said: ‘There were three of us in this marriage so it was a bit crowded.’
DIANA
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The name pithily sums it up: the organization will work to make politicians accountable to their constituents rather than the corporate interests so firmly entrenched in Washington.
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Where, asked a journalist pithily, is the space where newspaper owners and managements can be held to account?
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Here, rather more pithily, is an extract from the introduction to that same Hamas charter: "Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it" (The Martyr, Imam Hassan al-Banna, of blessed memory).
Negotiating for peace with Hamas
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Lyndon B. Johnson put it quite pithily to the leader of the Greek opposition, ‘F*ck your constitution.’
Matthew Yglesias » Constitutional Objections to Health Reform
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Mr. Thiel delivers his views with an extraordinary, almost physical effort to put his thoughts in order and phrase them pithily.
Technology = Salvation
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Oxymoron is a rhetoric device that, by force of the surface contradiction of language forms, can express the ideas not only clearly and exactly but also more pithily, deeply and strongly.
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As Judge Roberts pithily pointed out in the hearings, only one justice thought that both of the leading establishment clause cases delivered this last term were correctly decided.
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It offers an escape from the double bind of commentary pithily summarised by Foucault, in the passage I quoted just now.
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`I've drunk enough of your tea to launch Noah's ark ," said Aysgarth pithily.
ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
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Louis Armstrong defined jazz pithily as "what I play for a living".
