Sentence examples for pithy summing up from inspiring English sources

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Thomas's contemporary reworking of those sentiments Bakewell considers almost unworthy of comment, though former BBC royal correspondent Jennie Bond's pithy summing up of his position as "complete bollocks" meets with her approval.

"Your plan is pants," is Pomroy's pithy summing up.

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Bragg is a master at summing up a situation with a pithy one-liner, such as the glorious "crawling round on all fours, I was looking for a lover or a just cause".

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Burton, in summing up his subject, wrote:.

I can't even count the times I've put "Stuff" in a subject line, just because most of what I'm writing to people about is, in fact, stuff, and I am irritated every time I have to think of a pithy way to sum up what the rest of the e-mail says.

This pithy statement neatly sums up the fact that writing for a living is a horrible and stupid career, and that the people who do it are cursed to dwell in a never-ending nightmare of deadlines and run-on sentences.

I have been looking for some time for a pithy way to sum up the unraveling of the Republicans we have seen over the last 18 months, how they have gone from a party that had lost its way under George W. Bush to one that had lost its marbles under Barack Obama.

Nick Gillespie, the pithy editor of Reason, recently summed up his feelings on libertarian support for the Republicans:  "We're the long-suffering, battered spouse in a dysfunctional political marriage of convenience".

Its approach was summed up in the pithy four-character phrases into which Chinese policymakers love to distil their thinking.

Lena Gomez probably sums up things best with a pithy "this was a truly awful game".

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