The opening sequence uses a sprawling montage and pithy voice-over to fill in all the necessary blanks.
"I'm being wasted by self-pity and self-contempt," she wrote on her 38th birthday (Jan . 16 , 1971 the pithiest voicing of a frequently repeated sentiment.
And in a climate where the loudest, pithiest voices stand out, he is soft-spoken, given to detailed policy lectures about China, the "trust deficit" in Washington, or his calls to limit the size of banks.
Short, pithy and voiced by shrill caricatures with no self-awareness, they may well be perfect for their natural habitat.
Mix in visionary Angelina Fiordellisi, founding Artistic Director, Cherry Lane Theatre; a pinch of bold, brassy Evvie (Judith Ivey); a pint of pithy, gravelly voiced Evelyn Estelle Parsonss); an ounce of the erudite, depressive Janice (Angelina Fiordellisi).
He was – for those whose homes were filled in summers by his rich, pithy tones – a voice of wisdom, a voice of comfort, a voice of infinite tolerance and empathy.
Listening to famous actors deliver these non-stop protestations of undying love could seriously damage your judgment - fortunately Alex Jennings's Sandhurst voice and pithy introduction to each extract will stop you swooning.
Yet poor, tragic Charlie has nonetheless become an emblem of these twin failures, for his party and the union, with a pathos sharpened by the memory of how good, on his day, he once was.He was an uncluttered thinker and, with his ribald, smoker's voice and pithy wit, an entertaining speaker.
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.
Those were just two of the most pithy and extreme statements to be voiced by the seven male Republican candidates in the main Presidential debate on Thursday night.
Davis, who is now in her seventies, did not want to be shown in the film ("Nobody wants to be looking at an old woman," she told Cox), but she collaborated with Cox on a pithy, elliptical narrative, drawn in part from her interviews and song lyrics, which plays in voice-over.
