Sentence examples for pithy linguistic from inspiring English sources

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Ever the pithy linguistic analyst, Mr. Harnick called attention to an amusing pun in which an exhausted soldier finds himself "countin' Jeeps" instead of sheep.

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He was a master of the pithy phrase.

So rather than type in a specific denomination or a pithy, amusing answer, Heim entered this non-sequitur: "Colorless green ideas sleep furiously". It is a phrase written by linguistic philosopher Noam Chomsky to demonstrate how a sentence can be grammatically logical and yet have no meaning -- how things that seem so right at first can crumble under scrutiny.

So pithy.

Phillips's propensity for post-Lacanian abstractions and flashy linguistic inversions irritates critics like Elaine Showalter, who noted in a review of Phillips's last book, "Equals," that his observations were "pithy rather than persuasive".

Texts are pithy.

POTUS thinks pithy means "dirty".

Not obviously true, but pithy.

It will be pithy.

Linguistic functions.

Funny good, pithy good.

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