Long's text works are usually pithy things, set in the typeface he favours most: Gill.
Others tell a pithy tale to set up a laugh or two.
For centuries our national taste for this pithy spread has set us apart as a people – not for us the sweet charms of fruity French conserves, or fatty American peanut butter.
The financier and philanthropist George Soros is part of the dissenting movement, too, and he has written a pithy little book, "On Globalization" (Public Affairs; $20), setting out his views and his recommendations for reform.
The designer at the historic fashion house explains with his pithy wit how he set out to make his literary mark, saying, "The book is small and fat — something I could relate to!" His desire was to record one single collection from its blank start to its visual climax on the runway.
And I return to this pithy quote quite often while trudging through the unglamorous and lonely act of noveling (setting empathy to page).
Lili Boulanger's pithy, Fauré-like Pour les Funérailles d'un Soldat (completed as a student exercise in 1913), is a choral processional, setting a text by Alfred de Musset, which erupts at one point into a baritone solo (Alexandre Duhamel).
It has left the agency with a vast array of responsibilities, which were set out in a pithy internal GCHQ memo dated October 2011: "[Our] targets boil down to diplomatic/military/commercial targets/terrorists/organised criminals and e-crime/cyber actors".
"Place" is like a surrealistic, slightly dystopian dream, while "How to Pass," set to a series of pithy stories by John Cage, is Cunningham at his most playful.
As part of the Gay Icons exhibition at the NPG, this was a show in two parts: a pithy 10-song set, preceded by a "lecture" in which the Raincoats presented their own icons.
These counterinsurgency guidelines, distributed to troops on Sunday, are set forth in General Petraeus's own, often pithy style.
