Sentence examples for pithy expressions from inspiring English sources
For anyone looking for signs that the G.O.P. had lost its way, Cain seemed perfect: a former pizza executive, given to pithy expressions of nostalgic patriotism, intent on "reversing the Obama Administration's attack on the American dream".
They are the analog equivalent of Twitter, pithy expressions of discontent, usually scrawled in no more than 140 characters.
Sartre's existentialism and his excursions across the philosophical terrain of Marxism in the postwar era underwrote the orthodox idea of a proletarian revolution, and justified the intellectual hegemony of the French Communist party (in his pithy expression: "un anticommuniste est un chien").
Candidates could better reach the voters by using more meaningful, pithy Yiddish expressions on the campaign trail.
His gift for pithy, straightforward expression could not be further from the ornate vacuity of official Vatican speak.
And during a bonus track, his misgivings find expression in a pithy quatrain: Perfect vision — not hardly, can't see right from wrong I only see the light when I write my songs But I only see the money when I write what's wrong So you only see me shine when the light's not on.
But two crystalline expressions of her own life's high drama are more memorable than any story she ever spun: her pithy rebuke to the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1952 ("I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions") and the 1976 Blackglama advertisement for which she posed, enrobed in mink, her 71-year-old face alight with both amusement and confrontation.
Ivan's diatribes in response are both wonderful expressions of outraged pride and literary tours de force that combine the highest style of Muscovite hagiographic writing with pithy and vulgar attacks on his enemy.
Instead of a supportive, real-time expression of a mother's life, sites like Pinterest provide a Utopian motherhood, distilled through pictures, links, pithy sayings and overt how-to's.
