Bragg is a master at summing up a situation with a pithy one-liner, such as the glorious "crawling round on all fours, I was looking for a lover or a just cause".
At another debate, in October, Mr. Biden lacerated former Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani of New York, a Republican, with a pithy one-liner: "There's only three things he mentions in a sentence: a noun, a verb and 9/11".
James Bond will charm the girl, foil the villain's masterplan and brutally murder him while delivering a pithy one-liner about the nature of his death.
A pithier one, xue er tong bu, states a golden rule: study is advancement.
A fresh, pithy one - using black swans as a metaphor for rare catastrophic events - can be informative, at least at first, because it has to rely on a genuine similarity.
Lara Croft had become remembered for little more than her chest and a repertoire of pithy one liners before a successful reimagining in 2013, while "Doomguy" went from a generic space marine to one of the most fantastically realised mute characters in gaming history in his 2016 comeback.
In one early interview, with Oyster magazine, right after photos of that first bagel bag began to circulate, she ferried the question of what sort of artist she is with a characteristic mix of deprecation and expansiveness, conveying her spirit better than any pithy one-word descriptor might, replying: "Mixed-Media-Canadian-Jew-Brat-Comedy-Art?
Winners at next month's ceremony will instead be instructed to give two speeches: a pithy onstage one explaining the personal significance of their Oscar triumph, and a backstage one – delivered to a "thank you cam" – in which they can express their gratitude to anyone and everyone as unrestrainedly as they wish.
Jazmine Sullivan gets straight to the point, often in pithy one-syllable words, on her second album, "Love Me Back" (J Records).
Following a 15-minute speech packed with pithy one-liners and an ongoing stunt in which the comedian placed one hand atop his head to indicate irony, Idle performed a surprise rendition of his classic hit, "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life".
