Sentence examples for pithy language from inspiring English sources

Mr. Gingrich knows how to convey ideas in pithy language ("death tax").

"If you analogize it to life insurance," said Mr. Egan — who uses the kind of pithy language that escapes Mr. Ackman — "it is as if they once insured only 18-year-old women who didn't smoke or drink.

Before gaining wider visibility as a screenwriter with "The Iron Lady," "Shame" and the BBC series "The Hour," Abi Morgan acquired a reputation in Britain for her formally and stylistically inventive plays, which have been compared to the work of Caryl Churchill because of their pithy language and elliptical action.

Some 50 years ago, the renowned linguist Roman Jakobson pointed out a crucial fact about differences between languages in a pithy maxim: "Languages differ essentially in what they must convey and not in what they may convey".

You've probably heard people say that music is our universal language, and unlike most other pithy words of widsom this bit is actually true.

His way of expressing ideas – pithy, plain language, bold – and, above all, the ideas themselves that he shaped with such clarity, had the startling effect of feeling both brand new and yet obvious, creating a feeling of recognition.

(For patients and their loved ones, here's a pithy, plain language Patient Fact Sheet to help prevent medical errors, provided by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality).

One of the greatest strengths of John was his ability to provide a synthesis of the problem in such pithy accurate language.

The verse rhythms are fluid and flexible, allowing for passages of lyric song, and the language is pithy and vivid: I shan't soon forget Clytemnestra's dismissal of the hated Cassandra as "this sour-faced slut who sucked the sailors raw".

It is much easier and in some ways more rewarding to be the clinical expert, who can summarise the problems of the person (i.e. dimension 1) with a pithy piece of professional language.

In other words, Trump is pithy and powerfully suggestive when speaking and uses body language that fully supports and reinforces the message coming out of his mouth.