(1) Indeed, Meyer's visceral reaction drove home the extent to which these posthuman technologies provoke visions of dystopian futures or what Miah pithily calls "the yuck factor".
(2) Of course, behind all great comedy generally lies a deep understanding of the issues that become so pithily and amusingly condensed on stage.
(3) As popular Indian tweeter Ramesh Srivats pithily put it: "Screw the nation, cherish the symbols."
(4) One of my more sclerotic media chums said last Sunday, rather pithily I thought, that if Alex Salmond blew his nose the 3,000 SNP supporters in the main auditorium for the party’s election campaign conference would cheer him to the rafters.
(5) We were going to pithily sum it up as Speech Debelle in hell but it's not that extreme.
(6) The Republican party’s sudden amnesia over its view of Mandela was most pithily captured by Salon, which dubbed the phenomenon the “right-washing” of his legacy.
(7) For McCarthy this was a kind of justice 12 months late — Ward had been sent off here on Boxing Day last year with the Wolves manager adding pithily that ‚ÄúPepe Reina had run 70 yards to make sure he was dismissed.‚Äù At Old Trafford earlier in the season, Wolves had been denied a point in the final minute, which saw McCarthy kick a nearby water bottle a sight harder than Babel kicked anything last night.
(8) In 11 pithily written essays, Gould, a former co-editor of the Gawker gossip website, charts her experiences as a young adult in New York, working in jobs she loathes, facing up to failed relationships and going to parties attended by people she dislikes.
(9) Let’s not ignore the climate bubble.” President Obama puts it most pithily : “We’re not going to be able to burn it all.” So the argument for a campaign to divest from the world’s most polluting companies is becoming an overwhelming one, on both moral and pragmatic grounds.
(10) He and his party of artists and comedians – pithily called the Best party – describe themselves as "anarcho-surrealists" and were voted in last year, apparently on a tide of public animosity towards the country's establishment.
(11) The synopsis for Toy Story , which transformed the animation zeitgeist in 1995, can be summed up as “anthropomorphic toys have an adventure”, while 2003’s Finding Nemo can be pithily rendered as “talking fish searches the oceans for his missing son”.
(12) Screenwriter Jack Thorne’s latest project certainly sounds like a straight whodunnit (“Midsomer Murders without the old people,” as Stephens pithily suggests).
(13) As Margaret Robertson, development director of Hide and Seek and a games journalist , pithily remarks: "How do you get women to play your game?
Pithy
Definition:
(superl.) Consisting wholly, or in part, of pith; abounding in pith; as, a pithy stem; a pithy fruit.
(superl.) Having nervous energy; forceful; cogent.
Example Sentences:
(1) And while Altmejd presents sexual scenes of cartoonish horror and disgust, Lucas's art has embraced lavatorial humour, abjection, self-denigration, the pithy sculptural one-liner and the obscene gesture.
(2) This headline is a closely packed, multifaceted, pithy, rousing, basically perfect example of how strikes are presented in the tabloids, and have been for years.
(3) In fact, her pithy insults are deployed so regularly that colleagues on the spending watchdog have come up with the idea of playing “Margaret Hodge bingo”, scoring points when one of her putdowns pops out.
(4) The reshuffle had inspired some pithy one-liners and the PM was determined to deploy them all.
(5) Someone who bought tickets for a tennis event at the O2 sent me this pithy tweet: “4 tickets.
(6) There are plenty of 30-page documents and pithy slogans – but, as far as I can discover, nothing in between.
(7) It was a pithy line that feeds into the schtick about a bloated Brussels filled with born bureaucrats.
(8) The hawkish senator also defined his foreign policy: “A clenched fist and an open hand, you choose.” But the extent to which such pithy quips will help bolster Graham’s campaign – the senator is currently polling at 0.5% – remains questionable.
(9) But he has left Labour vulnerable over Brexit because the policy is so nuanced it cannot easily be boiled down to a pithy remark .
(10) Shortly after the YouTube sensation that was Jeremy Paxman's October interview with Russell Brand , Paxman wrote a pithy column about his disillusion with Westminster politics.
(11) Johnson, whose pithy interventions have caused embarrassment for all the major parties since the election campaign kicked off, opened the debate by stressing the gulf between the two major parties’ tax and spending plans.
(12) Sated by three years of Special One pyrotechnics, the British press might be ready to be charmed by Ramos' brand of quietly pithy humour.
(13) Obama: While the president generally struggled to get his "zingers" across, over-larding them with too much detail, he did get in a pithy dig about Romney's vague budget proposals which he claimed didn't add up.
(14) Jimmy Fallon, the host of the 2017 Golden Globes, has made a career of creating pithy viral moments that transcend television and resonate on the internet, but at this year’s ceremony the host was outdone by a bizarre recurring slip-up.
(15) In the months since their formation, the eight members of Pussy Riot have perfected their own form of protest: their songs are pithy, angry missives, largely directed at Putin, and they remain beguilingly anonymous – the band wear neon balaclavas to conceal their identities and perform flash gigs in unexpected places: on public transport, for example, and, once, on a prison roof.
(16) Instead, finance ministers signed up to a pithy list of bullet points, pledging to unleash all the policy weapons at their disposal against the crisis.
(17) The club was the brainchild of New Jersey shoe salesman Barney Josephson: a pithy antidote to the snooty, often racist elitism of other New York nightspots.
(18) But threnodies are not an argument, and memories are definitely not facts (Hobsbawm's pithy condemnation of oral history, delivered at a conference where I was due to speak, was terrifying).
(19) From a leader not known for her trenchant words or pithy sound bites her strong stance of the past few days has come as a surprise.
(20) You might expect he’d specialise in pithy one-liners, but in fact Delaney spins longer yarns onstage, all powered by a spirit of relentless cynicism.