Sentence examples for pithy account from inspiring English sources
His own most pithy account of his career can hardly be improved on: "Somewhere between my ambition and my ideals I lost my ethical compass".
There's an amusing bathos to Phil Ochs' pithy account of the Cuban missile crisis, as an advert for toothpaste interrupts a radio report on the US/USSR nuclear stand-off.
Hegel's own pithy account of the nature of philosophy given in the Preface to his Elements of the Philosophy of Right captures a characteristic tension in his philosophical approach and, in particular, in his approach to the nature and limits of human cognition.
In "The Hypochondriacs: Nine Tormented Lives," Brian Dillon provides pithy accounts of some of history's most famous hypos: Charles Darwin, Andy Warhol, James Boswell, Charlotte Brontë and Florence Nightingale.
(This mindset extends to social media, too: his Instagram account is littered with pithy maxims about "keeping going" and "not giving up on your dreams").
The devil of it is that some of these kvetchers were actually colorful writers, and this, Kupperman warns ominously, has led historians to make a fatal error: reading their accounts "to mine them for pithy quotes".
His account is studded with delightfully pertinent and pithy personal observations and anecdotes: the censors in tsarist Russia decided that Karl Marx's "Das Kapital" was so boring that it wasn't worth banning.
Earlier this year, a journalist named Lindy West wrote about the many ways she has been harassed online: she said that just about every day someone calls her "a fat bitch (or some pithy variation thereof)"; one particularly enterprising foe apparently created a satirical Twitter account in the voice of West's father, who had recently died.
Many of our troops kept notes, diaries -- some pithy, some very meticulous -- wrote letters, drew sketches and kept other accounts of their struggles, suffering and sacrifices, but also of their moments of triumph and even the off-chance romance.
Instead, I was surprised to see the two treat each other respectfully and answer questions honestly, accounting for awkward areas of nuance, rather than reduce serious topics to pithy sound bites.
