Sentence examples for Pithiness from inspiring English sources

Mr Grossmann's pithiness ruffles feathers.

When Damrosch writes that Tocqueville enjoyed the "pithiness of ordinary American speech," he also cites the nineteenth-century English writer Captain Frederick Marryat, whose diary of his American travels approvingly mentions an eating house in Illinois with a sign that read "Stranger, here's your chicken fixings".

C. S. Lewis called this quality "pithiness"; I would add "coziness" or "comfortability".

It is billed, with customary pithiness, as a "short play about death".

Younger poker players more scientific about the game have eclipsed Amarillo Slim, but none beat his pithiness.

This particular lot tends to hire graduate students and artistic types, and the attendants work hard to wrest pithiness out of the mundanity.

But the pithiness of Mr. Worth's note moved one blogger, the investment adviser Joshua M. Brown, to declare it the "Greatest.

In its whimsy and pithiness — and as a link to a powerful tool of legal research — the name conveys his core values.

Conversely, many enjoy the elegance, pithiness or clarity of certain modes of expressions.

By contrast, this week's research suggests musicians are more inclined to use pithiness as a chance to crack wise.

I found him to be a man of unflinching pithiness.