Sentence examples for pithy term from inspiring English sources

There's no single pithy term or phrase for this invention; it has more tricks up its sleeve than David Blaine.

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".

-- in these pithy terms: you break it, you buy it.

Woodcock said: "We must respect the other view which was put to me in really pithy terms by a candidate who hadn't been able to win their seat".

One is that it is much harder to explain in pithy terms that will fit on a bumper sticker or tweet why you are in favor of something, such as employment protections, rather than opposed to a particular bill.

"I said, 'I keep statistics,' " Mr. Burton said, " 'like when you swing at the first pitch, you bat.180, and when you don't you bat.360.' " "He said, 'Kid, I don't go for any of that bunk.' Actually he used a somewhat pithier term than that.

And that's what makes it an occasion for cursing – in the ripest, pithiest terms possible – when an important cinema finds itself in peril.

The term VLIW is a pithy summary of a superficial feature of the architectural style.

But it also stands as a vibrant example of what superior short-form drama can encompass in terms of narrative density, pithy character development and idiosyncratic authorial voice.

And I am feeling an even bigger absence: Where is our soul?" Protesters toted signs both pithy ("People Before Profit") and wordy ("In terms of income inequality, San Francisco fares worse than Rwanda & only slightly better than Guatemala").

It would be tough to boil down the long-term implications of a leave vote into a pithy answer, but here's what would happen practically.