Sentence examples for pithy summaries from inspiring English sources

He has great narrative gifts, and his brief character sketches draw readers in while pithy summaries of each expedition carry us on breathlessly from one ice hummock to the next.

Fleming "has great narrative gifts, and his brief character sketches draw readers in while pithy summaries of each expedition carry us on breathlessly from one ice hummock to the next," Jonathan Dore said here last year.

In some bits of ex-Yugoslavia it was not only right (if belated) but, broadly, successful.Warmongers and peacemakers should read at least the pithy summaries at the end of each of Lord Ashdown's chapters before they start on their next adventure.

They conclude with a pithy summary reproduced here.

Charles, I thought, thanks for that pithy summary of the Catch-22 of classical music.

"My team defended bad and attacked bad," was Pellegrini's pithy summary.

To take a phrase from this story, in what could be a pithy summary of his modern-day romanticism, it contains both "the pain and sweetness of life".

Hobbes offered his pithy summary as an antidote to those who might think "the Natural Condition of Mankind" is a happy one.

After 15 pages, many thousands of words and even an autopsy, Jacqui Cheng's pithy summary is "it's good, but not great.

Fitness and gloom, a pithy summary of that decade add recession, and you've got a good working definition of the first decade of this century, as well.

Fitness and gloom, a pithy summary of that decade — add recession, and you've got a good working definition of the first decade of this century, as well.