pithiness

But Dash, for all his pithiness, had a kind heart.

It slices easily, and has better than average resistance to pithiness.

As a result, it can be used with a pithiness and brevity unknown in English.

The phrase lacks the pithiness that is the soul of satire.

That makes the interior spongy, which is called pithiness.

Television at first maintained radio's requirement for mnemonic, musical pithiness.

This one has a milder flavor and does not seem to degenerate into pithiness if left in the ground too long.

As she summarizes it with typical pithiness: "Goose has a fat problem.

He smirked at the pithiness of his observation.

His was "a language of distilled moral truth" that had what Schmidt calls "a humorless pithiness."

This omission and the absence of articles does lend a certain pithiness to Russian proverbs.

New Society said about the lectures "admirable above all for its economy, its elegant pithiness.

With this scaling down also came a refinement of his pithiness and a deepening of ambiguity.

He took the view that he should report faithfully what he saw, and the pithiness of his comments was not always welcomed.

As the three former schoolmates reminisce about not so happy old times, memories collide with facts, and the dialogue retains its pithiness.

Most authoritarians are unaccustomed to the noisy pandemonium of Western democracy, which demands pithiness from anyone wishing to be heard.

Pithiness and 5.

Occasionally, this leads to formulations of admirable compression and pithiness: "We deem the universe solvable."

He lapsed into a string of curses that amazed Gilbenstock with their creativity and pithiness.

Scrupulous writers use three dots to indicate an ellipsis in a quotation when pithiness is desired but some stuffed shirt goes on and on.

Or, as Galbraith himself put it with his typical pithiness: "Specialization is the parent not only of boredom but also of irrelevance and error."

Mr. Prine's pithiness allows his songs no self-pity, just matter-of-fact acceptance, leaving the music to provide what comfort it can.

Copy-heavy, 19th century-style print advertising was too wordy to transfer to a new medium that demanded pithiness and euphony.

Rehnquist's pithiness is the pithiness of the victor.

Selena was glad he abandoned the strigoi custom of ambiguity and concealment for the sake of pithiness.