Sentence examples for pithy prose from inspiring English sources

Annual reports are normally dull stuff, but Berkshire Hathaway's publishings are collectors' items, thanks to Mr Buffett's pithy prose (polished by Carol Loomis, a renowned Fortune journalist).

Littell's pithy prose is the more remarkable for his claim that much of it was recorded in his notebooks on the spot, with minimum revision afterwards.

Where does Marc Kirschner, 29, the owner and publisher of the Short List, a series of guidebooks to businesses in New York, get the inspiration for his pithy prose?

As the lord of discipline on the field, as the issuer of gag orders for his football assistants, as the only voice he wants to hear, Parcells is a narcissist in the reflection of his own pithy prose.

By 4 a.m. he has sent e-mails to his five employees, dividing the tasks of writing the day's dozen or so eye-catching and excessively punctuated headlines (almost every one begins along the lines of "Amazing MTO World Exclusive!!!!!"), checking out tips and writing pithy, humorous prose to accompany the headlines.

His prose is pithy, often arresting.

Any fool could throw a switch .Mr Estleman's prose is pithy, his dialogue tangy ("A man needs a wife, and if he don't have that he needs work. God invented liquor for men that didn't have either").

The prose must be pithy, elegant and inspiring.

Lincoln's prose and speeches, however, were eloquent, pithy, powerful, and free of the verbosity so common in communication of his day.

The title's "Cubop" is a pithy term for Afro-Cuban bebop, and Medina's prose evokes the music's rhythms and energy: "The moment, the cooking, the weeping, the wailing, the memory, the memory".

But it's a fine line between short, pithy sentences and the "See Spot run" school of prose, and large chunks of the book read as though written with a short, stubby crayon.