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"pithy" Definitions
  1. (of a comment, piece of writing, etc.) short but expressed well and full of meaning

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The pithy answer is that there is no pithy answer: industries like construction and healthcare are simply too complicated to have a simple response to the question of cost disease.
She is pithy and chatty and beguilingly quiet by turns.
Like other tabloids, its stories are pithy and celebrities omnipresent.
Americans don't want a vague GOP concept with pithy promises.
Is it because the pithy length lends itself to misunderstanding?
In those words I heard more than pithy sound bites.
In those words I heard more than pithy sound bites.
She was known for pithy quotes about women in politics.
The pair is far from done churning out pithy, tenacious characters.
It was a pithy product name coined by Infogear in 1998.
In fact, it's more like a potentially cutting and pithy insult.
Yep: another Brooklynite writing pithy stories about someone apparently like herself.
Grandin is a fine explainer with a knack for pithy summary.
Would you like to sign off with something pithy and epigrammatic?
Here is a pithy summation of the special loneliness of genius.
"OK boomer" is not just a pithy retort; it's totally valid.
Pithy and profound, uplifting or eviscerating, when Tutu speaks, the world listens.
Mr Piketty summed up this contention in the pithy expression "r > g".
The question now is whether her pithy attacks accomplished their fundamental intent.
He is also known for his blunt tough talk and pithy quotes.
Her lyrics are punchy, pithy, and poignant, her composure cool and friendly.
Mixed metaphors are a common element of these pithy final college lectures.
Now 88, Gorbachev is still pithy, clear and direct in his answers.
They were painted in pastels and inscribed with pithy advice: Be happy.
As in A Warning, the sentences and paragraphs are pithy and punchy.
They leave room for zany experimentation, pithy self-awareness, and a wink.
Last night, LeBron finally responded on Instagram with a pithy and forceful photo.
They range from sad to silly, pithy to poetic, and everywhere in between.
It's a pithy line, no doubt, but it always struck me as wrongheaded.
There's a lot of sort of short, pithy things that I find meaningless.
"Unpresidented," of course, sounds like a pithy description of unprecedentedly un-presidential behavior.
Goldman was a virtuoso of pithy dialogue that flowed with sharp, tangy momentum.
We asked a few dozen people and received an array of pithy answers.
Then Maggie would wander in and say something pithy and then wander out.
This brings us back to Keynes' knack for coming up with pithy phrases.
The typically pithy Yiannopoulos quickly petered out and was shouted down by protesters.
Some are comedic, some pithy, but the most popular are detailed and instructional.
He could turn an elegant phrase and toss off a pithy bon mot.
Characters compress power dynamics into pithy lines and lob them at one another.
Mr. Cruz is a practitioner of the filibuster; Mr. Roe is pithy and profane.
The pithy and scathing assessment of Tacitus was "omnium consensu capax imperii, nisi imperasset".
And onstage, she spent a lot of time delivering pithy lines reflecting her beliefs.
He sounds as if he's been swallowing smoke and razors, growling out pithy sentences.
That will be more valuable than whatever pithy message the Democratic leadership puts together.
I figured that as a politician, he would have a well-practiced, pithy rendition.
This taut, pithy novel follows his suicide vacation to an unspecified war-torn country.
It's the pithy, brilliant observation that can take the place of a thousand rambles.
Poem Selected by Terrance Hayes This pithy poem could double as a writing prompt.
Fred Krupp of the Environmental Defense Fund has written a pithy series of tweets.
We all have our favourites, many of which will be on the pithy side.
GOP operative Rick Wilson had a pithy way of putting it: It applies to everyone.
We want to know who wrote the hilarious joke, the brilliant observation, the pithy tweet.
Posting is an art form, and Twitter's arbitrary limit sharpened good posts into pithy masterpieces.
Too often, California-style restaurants lean on invocations of Chez Panisse or a pithy mantra.
It's the same kind of pithy so-called solution that got us into this mess.
"She wrote these lovely, pithy funny essays that often end with a recipe," Holland says.
This stalking and pouncing is perfect for a six-second Vine or a pithy tweet.
J.P. Pithy storytelling, twang and a backbeat have defined Dwight Yoakam's music throughout his career.
The power of a pithy phrase to sway the ignorant is not to be underestimated.
"The song must be cultural, confessional, clear" — a pithy ars poetica for our volatile age.
If she is going to make a comeback, she needs a pithy positive case too.
The group will likely play some of Williams's pithy, melodic originals featured on that album.
The problem, though, is that the pithy document will likely fall on deaf ears anyway.
But Twitter users have another talent: using these types of events to unleash some pithy burns.
But now, those pithy rants — and the motivations behind them — have become his undoing in court.
The doctors, whether in surgical scrubs, Hawaiian shirts or bathrobes, had plenty of pithy one-liners.
It's pithy, sparkles even, and feels a lot less painful than what the scene gives us.
His narration, as pithy and "over the top" as his beloved TV persona, is incredibly endearing.
At a little over 90 minutes, "Radiant Vermin" is probably too long for its pithy purposes.
Mies was a solid oak tree of a man, hulking in stature and pithy in wisdom.
And Ann Landers and Dear Abby are also really known for their pithy one-liners. Right.
One as a means to a racist end, the other as a woeful attempt at pithy humor.
For him, it's a pithy comment meant to remind Sasha she should be grateful to be alive.
How was I supposed to brainstorm pithy "pins and needles" puns for her acupuncture services after that?
Her embroidered texts — pithy statements delivered with no context — have the first-person immediacy of internet speech.
Such is life, and the crushing weight of your expectations for the most pithy responses from it.
But Khanna's original tweet — the pithy statement that's getting passed around context-free on social media — doesn't.
The pragmatic answer is that not everyone is migrating all the time (the pithy answer is "blockchain").
But they're meticulously well-designed, elegantly worded and pithy enough to etch themselves into a reader's brain.
She instead tends toward pithy questions that make a dramatic point about Trump's behavior and decision-making.
Your arresting article should add to such pithy contrasts a more somber one: Africans die to work.
Rather, they are rewarded for "clickable" moments of pithy remarks and curt comebacks to their political rivals.
As for the title's pithy parentheses ... well, they're definitely clever, but Sugar also just thinks they're funny.
His reply to their effort is pithy in the extreme — and definitely not suitable for small children.
The film tends to move laterally between private memory, public spectacle, kitsch newscasts, and pithy historical asides.
The teardrop is merely a stepping stone, a bit of pithy self-expression, but not the end goal.
In the comics, he shared pithy observations on 1960s high school politics and the perils of becoming super.
If you want to condense Apple's 2016 down to a pithy mission statement, it's this: war on wires.
Not a very pithy answer, but there's an enormous difference between Andrew Cuomo's rhetoric and Andrew Cuomo's actions.
They make jokes as they slowly destroy their lives, make pithy observations as they walk into the abyss.
That pithy phrase, popularized by a November 2014 Paper magazine cover story on Kim Kardashian, makes the cut.
Coming up with pithy, meaningful 140-character tweets exercised a muscle I used too infrequently in my prose.
The short, pithy answer is that the Oscars are prom night and everything else is the homecoming dance.
"Look, and overlook" is one of those pithy phrases that makes sense one moment and baffles the next.
Part of the beauty of headlines is in the art of a perfectly crafted one: pithy, clever, striking.
This kind of direct interaction is something that only Bruce Nauman's pithy neon pieces are able to compel.
If AirPower was a pithy signifier, the degradation of the company's Mac line has been Apple's abasement opus.
The goose is the centerpiece of a pithy and unsatisfying meal the family eats together with heads hung.
Intricate yet succinct, the narratives feature pithy dilemmas and subtle fiascoes circling such topics as language and time.
"This is really easy," said Justice Antonin Scalia when delivering his pithy opinion for the court in Abercrombie.
Each pie, galette or cake recipe is accompanied by pithy stories, with insider dish as important as ingredients.
A poem, by its need to distill complex thoughts to pithy brevity, will of necessity tend toward equivocality.
"Same Old Love" is a clear highlight on "Revival," a pithy blend of jazz, trap, and punk-pop.
Politicians across the world use it as a pithy put-down to dismiss any accusation they find uncomfortable.
In a clear, pithy style, Ms. Ashton wrote both sweeping histories and intimate studies devoted to individual artists.
If Trump is good at one thing, it's rallying his supporters with pithy, all-encapsulating turns of phrase.
She was so busy that when her parents told her it was time for bed, she had pithy comebacks.
Let me offer this bit of pithy analysis into that perspective: WHAT THE HELL IS HE EVEN TALKING ABOUT?
" His elevator pitch for the app is the pithy: "Art Galleries are for the 1%, wydr for the 99%.
After several people inquired who was playing him in the movie, the lawyer came up with a pithy reply.
What's new is primarily tailored to Trump: The staging appears more presidential and the messages are pithy but scripted.
Trump's reversal on Russia and Syria doesn't yet have a pithy quote attached, but it's a fundamentally similar issue.
NoHo Hank is dopey and hapless, like a young puppy, but also smart and pithy, and, sometimes, very scary.
When a fan implied that his new team — Brooklyn Nets — are irrelevant, Durant clapped back with a pithy response.
Dunham's script is sharp and pithy as per usual, but maybe the smartest thing "American Bitch" did was cast Rhys.
But it also means they're less likely to give pithy quotes than men who don't have to be so careful.
Woods dazzles with pithy one-liners as she navigates the elite world of Ivy League postgraduate education, chihuahua in hand.
Instead of offering a name or a pithy retort, it responded with a link from Harry Potter fan website Pottermore.
Some are reminders for himself, some are notes for his wife, and others are pithy observations about parenting in general.
My Twitter feed will become less scannable as huge blocks of text stand like totems among shorter, more pithy tweets.
Questions he deems inane or uninteresting are dismissed with a monosyllabic retort, perplexed stare or pithy insult — sometimes all three.
"They tried to kill us, we survived, let's eat," goes the old joke, a pithy summary of many Jewish holidays.
Meet a few times a year, stay at a luxury hotel, offer some pithy business advice, and cash a check.
Hold your comment, your pithy tweet, your caustic Facebook post: I'm not saying that video games cannot tell amazing stories.
She sums it all up in the song's pithy, rueful chorus: "We didn't drink on weeknights when we were young".
In the following spread, the authors provide the answer key along with a pithy yet illuminating discussion of each item.
And what are her pithy Dollyisms — "It takes a lot of money to look this cheap" — if not proto-tweets?
The results are fun and pithy, sort of like emojis, and they highlight how people are always talking with images.
Their personalities color their pithy elucidations of musicality, discipline, imagination and the hard work of making it all look easy.
Without seeing his face, I listened intently to the pithy anecdotes and surprisingly wise histories he told night after night.
They call General James Mattis "Mad Dog," and compare him to George Patton, because he is known for pithy sayings.
Wade was "the worst abomination of constitutional law in our history," the pithy characterization that Judge Pryor has never disavowed?
Scott Hechinger, a public defender in Brooklyn and a pithy presence on criminal justice on Twitter, made a similar point.
Run, Joe, run The Washington Post's E.J. Dionne has a pithy description of why Joe Biden should run for president.
For her thesis, Di Tolla finds an excellent middle ground between the political and pithy, synthesizing this exhibition's dominant themes.
As such, lines admonishing, "Don't spend all your time chasing your mother's shadow" are interspersed with pithy songs delivered deadpan.
There is a reason Mr. Dylan is so popular among judges, Professor Long said: His lyrics are pithy, memorable and pointed.
She has never lost the deep Appalachian accent of her Kentucky childhood, and her conversation is as pithy as her lyrics.
Fisher, known for her whip-smart social commentary and pithy humor, took the stage as host when she was just 22.
Bahbah is a storyteller at heart, and the pithy text that accompanies her photographs is as meticulously crafted as a screenplay.
You're becoming known, in the British press at least, as the person to go to for a blunt or pithy quote.
And in October, the newspaper shuttered a 25-year-old magazine it owned, HK Magazine—known for its pithy political satire.
As Parker Thompson, the pithy venture capitalist at AngelList, put it: 2014: broad consensus that Clippy was the worst product ever.
After wearing them around the New York City streets, the subway and into a couple of cafes, that pithy review stands.
When Minamoto and Taira forces come head-to-head, the narrative ignites, and Turner's prose is by turns pithy and evocative.
Mattis gave a pithy sweep of lessons from military history and expressed his view on the perils of overreliance on technology.
By the end, he's not a badass Schwarzenegger-type smirking out pithy one-liners, he's a hollow shell of a man.
The campaign "Not One Penny" has been at the forefront of finding pithy, clear ways to illustrate the Republican tax plan.
It's especially hard for a comedy website, because you're trained to share the pithy headline and never, ever click the link.
Like a 1990s fourth grader with phasers set to "Moded!" you add a pithy rejoinder that's sure to please your side.
Mr. Ocasek's songs were invariably terse and catchy, spiked with Mr. Easton's twangy guitar lines and Mr. Hawkes's pithy keyboard hooks.
The "Cameroonian proverb," or the pithy definition attributed to the nonexistent "Small's Enlarged English Dictionary," were phonies, invented by the author.
Instead of catchy, brief, pithy slogans, Rainforest Action Network included multi-page, multi-thousand-word stories of life in the rainforest.
And as the new album testifies, his compact motifs and pithy, swinging approach hold up strikingly well in large-ensemble arrangements.
Ram Dass hit the lecture circuit, his presentation a mix of pithy wisdom and humor, often expressed in the same sentence.
We love the pithy starts and finishes, and then there's volatility in between, it's very hard to tie a bow around.
From Madeline, Jane, Celeste, Renata, and Bonnie, there are no pithy lines, no schadenfreude, no wry observations dropped in sneering triumph.
The former secretary of state is showing a greater willingness to take on Trump more directly in pointed speeches and pithy tweets.
LEW's clunky page bears the pithy tagline "welcome to our website," and its content is as aggressively middling as its web design.
But, we're specifically shouting out the Twitter users who make the most of the site's format, firing off pithy, cosmically insightful takes.
The background: The project (and title) takes inspiration from 2017's "Tribe of Mentors" by Timothy Ferriss, a compendium of pithy advice.
Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, Ahmed Fouad Negm, a poet, was famous for using dialect in his pithy putdowns of Egyptian politicians.
Despite not authoring many dissents, he earned the nickname "The Great Dissenter" for his pithy and succinct way of conveying his opinion.
The wiggle room Nintendo tries to give itself is through tags, short and pithy descriptors to indicate the tone of a stage.
Cue up all the lessons and pithy sayings about how failure is the greatest educator and it's impossible to miss the point.
Although Mitchell won hearts in You for her pithy quips as Peach Salinger, the actress' pregnancy unveiling is told with bare emotion.
The act of resisting Trump, Full Frontal has insisted week in and week out, can't begin and end with a pithy hashtag.
To conclude your writing, see if you can sum up your observations with a pithy sentence or two of advice for yourself.
And there are a bunch of people who did it before me and they can distill my feelings into a pithy quote?
Possibly due to Dubuffet's more intimate scale, one enters more quickly into his pithy, ambiguous landscapes than into Poons' sprawling topographic cornucopia.
Her tone was brisk and irreverent, her ideas coming out in pithy, manageable chunks, making her work a perennial favorite with students.
"Fake news" and "build the wall" became their own memes, pithy phrases tailor-made to be shouted by large groups of people.
The company frequently tweets pithy things, but the memory of that fascism comment left us wondering: What led to surreal's overall win?
Opening with Marx: "Great social revolutions are impossible without the feminine ferment," the narrative hits the ground running in pithy, breathless paragraphs.
In Public Speaking, pithy writer/spieler Fran Lebowitz claims that all of her opinions regarding literature, art, New York, smoking, homosexuality, etc.
True, he may shed a revelatory light on the more extreme facets of our societal spectrum through his bizarre and pithy prism.
But consumers might notice a few changes — fewer pithy sayings and a slightly different taste — and they won't be quite as ubiquitous.
" And Ms. Karlan offered the following, pithy line that Democrats will no doubt seize upon: "President Trump must be held to account.
"You don't defeat the moderate wing of Democrats through thought pieces or pithy tweets, you defeat their politics through organizing," he said.
Trump was a prolific user of Twitter during the campaign, sometimes using it to deliver pithy put-downs of his critics and rivals.
At the other end of the scale are tomes containing a plethora of pithy platitudes about "breaking the mould" and "worshipping the kill".
And next weekend, he'll take some pithy, parting shots at his tormentors in the press at his final White House Correspondents Association Dinner.
Even better is the pithy advice on which airline to fly with: Upgrade your inbox and get our Daily Dispatch and Editor's Picks.
But in his view, set out this week in a pithy essay, some reactions to the challenge are unhealthy and inimical to freedom.
Even in adversity, though, Mr. Fass, whose show airs Thursday nights at midnight, can be counted on for a pithy take on things.
"Watching Ray is like watching coffee brew," Baker said of a somewhat elderly recent contestant, which is about as pithy as he gets.
Compared to then-contemporary programs like The Biggest Loser and unforgettably sensational Fear Factor, Artstar's pithy day-to-day asides felt positively dry.
Both resulted in great dates with likeminded people, people that may have never swiped right if the profile had been pithy and impersonal.
Especially in the early going of the book, strangers have a way of stepping on stage to deliver pithy aphorisms before quickly exiting.
"Little Room" is a pithy and circular homily on the anxieties of the creative life; it might almost be a piece of needlepoint.
While some are happily tweeting pithy quotes from his speech in Chicago, Canadian rapper Drake had some #custom Instagram content up his sleeve.
Instead, they filled the book with archival photos and handwritten pages, but it's all too pithy for anyone but superfans to care about.
They are exhausted and at times exasperated by his hopscotching from one subject to the next, chronicled in his pithy and provocative tweets.
However, we don't really have to, since photos like these are keeping us in the loop way more than any pithy joke ever could.
Week in and week out, Full Frontal has insisted that the act of resisting Trump can't simply rely on a pithy social media hashtag.
But everything, from the pithy recurring phrases to the thoughtfully placed pauses and seemingly folksy anecdotes are actually well-planned-out, crowd-tested presentations.
A retrospective of the singer's most fashionable moments is a topic more worthy of a thousand page art tome than a pithy blog post.
If there aren't pithy answers, it makes sense to linger in them, to turn them over—to spend a little time in the pit.
Self-driving cars can easily cover the first two and instinct can be fettered out through processors that work faster than our pithy brains.
Far from being disposable, though, Proverbs' pithy sayings have permeated our popular culture and become beloved parts of both the Jewish and Christian faiths.
The photo, titled Reconstructed Meat Slices, is a pithy display of emotional emptiness, presumably left cold and alone besides a depressing can of  foodstuff.
Ibrahimovic's era in the gold and blue yielded spectacular goals and pithy soundbites but there was little in the way of World Cup success.
Beyond that, it's hoping to branch out into even more flat-bread varieties, which is, incidentally, how Flatev (Flatbread Evolution) got its pithy name.
In contrast to Cameron, who preferred pithy summaries to lengthy briefing papers, she has been demanding extensive notes on the complex issues surrounding Brexit.
The same day, Amazon came under harsh criticism for directing users to report abuses of its facial recognition platform via a pithy online form.
Ms. Finnegan contributed benches that are hand-painted with pointed, pithy texts: "This exhibition has asked me to stand for too long," one says.
But Axios's Jonathan Swan and Mike Allen had a pithy sentence to describe where things are now: "Trump is in a bad, mad place."
One exception of sorts is Justin Brice Guariglia's "We Are the Asteroid" (2018), a highway message sign that broadcasts pithy sayings like its title.
" Mike Huckabee, on Twitter, shared this pithy lunacy: "Trump may be a car wreck, but at least his car is pointed in right direction.
So does everything that is pithy or compelling have to be rated "mature" with some skin and a regular diet of expressions of disgust?
This moody setting is adorned with pithy quotes by Leonardo inscribed along the tops of walls — a motif borrowed wholesale from art museum exhibitions.
Meanwhile, he poured late hours into what he referred to as his Midnight Paintings, filling them with just as much pithy delight as his literature.
We're putting on a little show of dog photos and pithy observations, extending our hat and waiting for applause in the form of a like.
There's the intro line — some pithy version of Dev's "Going to Whole Foods, want me to pick you up anything?" pitch in Master of None.
Other highlights included Kim'ssmart, pithy lecture to Jimmy about ethics, and Jimmy's heckling of "Ice Station Zebra," the Rock Hudson movie he watched with Kim.
While you might think you'll get the best response if you are pithy or funny, they only thing you need to do is be specific.
However, the story that comes through the screen is not a focus of that woman's professional skills, talents or pithy commentary, but around her gender.
In 28500, Politifact declared President Obama's pithy ObamaCare pitch, "If you like your health plan, you can keep it," as the Lie of the Year.
The group pumps red blood into six new originals, all classic J.D. Allen: pithy, minor-blues melodies, a mix of stern gravity and buoyant lyricism.
Other good examples: the cult musical "[title of show]" and Yasmina Reza's pithy "'Art,'" whose quotation marks make it simultaneously generic, specific, questioning and ironic.
But steal it someone did, earlier this month, prompting a police investigation, a pithy #StolenColon hashtag, a deluge of bathroom jokes and demands for answers.
It was a pithy encapsulation of time-honoured spin-doctoring wisdom: that a strong economy helps the incumbent and a weak one helps the challenger.
And never forget his pithy review of the debate, rendered while it was still going on and reflective of the taunts and tirades all around him.
"Many turned to his pithy slogans about free speech and religious tolerance to reiterate their values and express their grief," Warman writes in the book's introduction.
And every year, the producers of that ceremony come up with new ways to admonish nominees to keep their 45-second acceptance speeches pithy and exciting.
Rather than serve as a pithy reaction or a visual joke, the ASL GIFs are creating an educational experience by taking advantage of the GIF format.
Jennifer Weiner MY mom, Fran, is wise and warm and helpful in many ways, but she's never been great at dispensing pithy nuggets of life wisdom.
The series, "Four Stages of Cruelty", features in a small but pithy new exhibition of Hogarth's work at the Morgan Library and Museum in New York.
That pithy indictment of Mr Trump's first major rollback of Obama-era criminal-justice reform will no doubt fall on deaf ears at the White House.
First, Mr Pence threw his audience off-guard by saying something stirring, pithy but not strictly true in the literal, nit-picking sense of that word.
A few sharper lines, a stab at Holt, pithy jabs at Clinton for her health and penchant for privacy—and Trump could pull off an upset.
Last week, Barack Obama sharpened his pen and wrote a pithy post outlining the qualifications he seeks in a Supreme Court nominee to replace Antonin Scalia.
In the aftermath, some Facebook executives have taken to Twitter for a public charm offensive, sending pithy phrases and emoticons to reporters who cover the company.
In other words, if Twitter is moving away from the short, pithy statements that were once its claim to fame, it's because we wouldn't stop talking.
Every episode has an uplifting message; they all cater to family-friendly watching, complete with some pithy moral about the importance of loyalty, respect, and kindness.
In 22.5, one way they are going to do this is through the sharing of memes — pithy, punchy photos and videos designed for maximum partisan impact.
His last album remained somber and sly, still pithy and still skeptical about both the human and the divine; it was also attentive to musical detail.
Her angst is conveyed through Offill's trademark pithy wit, making this book feel very Relevant but without the self-importance typically associated with such fiction. —T.
"Music became the motivating factor in my life, and still is," said Mr. Simons, who laughs easily and punctuates his pithy comments with his bushy eyebrows.
I'm filling in for Jake this week, and this is usually where he writes some pithy thoughts about a movie or show that he watched recently.
The Austin band Spoon — which plays pithy, hard-nosed, perpetually inventive rock — played what was billed as SXSW's first residency with three nights of headlining sets.
Most of the show is playful, between Anthony Mendez's voiceover narration, the pithy pop culture jokes, and sporadic slapstick — but its episodes are an hour long.
Adam Clark Estes will be providing pithy commentary on Gizmodo's liveblog, while I'll be in Cupertino snapping pictures and giving you updates as soon as they happen.
"Video director David Gladstein has distilled the musical and sociological anxiety embodied in the song into a pithy and minimalist stick figure drama," says bassist Brian Ritchie.
Some of this comes down to the pithy remarks that he makes, while the content, when stripped of context and placed in a comic, feels appropriately cartoonish.
Although often dour in countenance, Mr Modi is a pithy speaker in Hindi, with an unerring nose for the class-driven grudges that often guide voter sentiment.
This is the question driving the seventh season of Archer, FX's animated spy comedy that flirts with disaster, pithy banter, and absurdist twists on a weekly basis.
I want to thank you for the hours you spent watching Gina be Gina: confident, idiotic-but-smart, pithy, and infused with rhythm and cell-phone radiation.
Trump keeps attacking reporters as the "enemy of the people" – a pithy phrase last in vogue when Vladimir Lenin ran the Russian revolution a hundred years ago.
Chasten Buttigieg, notably, has made a name for himself on Twitter, sharing pithy posts from the campaign trail featuring his husband, South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg.
I bet that, sometimes, she's confused about why someone saw a post she didn't want to or why no one is seeing any of her pithy shares.
You're trying to make it pithy in a way so that you're not giving too, too much wisdom to a man in the throes of this all.
Full of pithy aphorisms, The Society of the Spectacle reads less like an academic text and more like a manifesto — a call to arms against passive spectatorship.
Full of pithy quips and contrarian insights about what it means to be a modern artist, it's the kind of gift a grandmother could comfortably hand over.
ASKED by a journalist in April about Canada's role in fighting Islamic State, Justin Trudeau, the prime minister, came back with a pithy lecture on quantum computing.
The result is rhetorical gold — ideal, in any case, for social-­media banter, which places a premium on pithy hyperbole, on outsize statements delivered with minimal keystrokes.
News companies want you to click on them and read the whole story, so the headlines try to be pithy and clever and not give everything away.
I repeat what I said in the closing paragraph I sent to you, let's work together to solve our problems and stop with these pithy, nonsensical Tweets.
People misattribute pithy quips to famous figures, sayings are altered and removed from their original contexts, and the record of who authored what line can be muddled.
James Bond will charm the girl, foil the villain's master plan, and brutally murder him while delivering a pithy one-liner about the nature of his death.
The guides are broken down into a total of nearly 5,000 "venue cards" that Gillin said were created "from scratch," including pithy reviews in Q&A format.
Combing through YouTube comments can be as harrowing as it is hilarious, with people spewing as much ugliness and hate as they do posting pithy comedy gold.
Mr. Tirado gives each character a ration of pithy dialogue, some of which is delivered by the actors as they are playing actual games of speed chess.
This newsletter's goal will be to catch you up quickly on the biggest news in consumer tech and also to give you sharp, pithy commentary on it.
"Just as fish seek deeper water, so people seek better places to live," said Mr. Fyodorov, the farmer, showing the pithy rural wisdom that Russians hold dear.
He was a tart and pithy composer, and on his best-known albums for Blue Note he tended to render his tunes with the help of horns.
Too often portrayed as poster children for goofy ineptitude who need those how-to-be-a-dad books with pithy aphorisms and gauzy photos of little feet.
The individual drawings often depict naked men and women flaunting their nude bodies in the bright light of day—and the pieces sport pithy titles to match.
One of the most frustrating parts of journalism is writing headlines — they need to be pithy and smart, drawing in readers but not infuriating them with cheap clickbait.
When these ran dry, pithy but non-offensive cliches came to rule the day, which can explain why a lot of "fortunes" don't sound like fortunes at all.
Voters will only find out which candidates can deliver pithy phrases and stand on their feet for three hours, hardly the factors that qualify somebody to be president.
Their visits to the domineering Patsy, and their varied relationships with her, come across in pithy blackout scenes that run the gamut from lightly droll to distinctly sad.
The next day she responded with one of her pithy Tweets, and I quote, Leon, you were able to succeed because of the opportunity this country gave you.
The classic When Harry Met Sally one-liner — delivered in perfect deadpan by Estelle Reiner — is classic Nora Ephron: sharp, pithy, and just the right amount of sweet.
The new Spidey was played by Tom Holland and had some fancy Deadpool eyes, so he could really emote when he was dishing out pithy lines or whatever.
" Be smart: Axios' Jonathan Swan analyzes the Trump administration's weekend trade moves on China in a pithy tweet, "The bark to bite ratio is currently about 85:1.
Vocations Melvina Young, 55, is a senior writer at Hallmark Cards in Kansas City, Mo. How hard could it be to write pithy lines for a greeting card?
"You Will Not Have My Hate," as it became known, was pithy and defiant; in 2016, Mr. Leiris expanded upon it in a book of the same name.
Her pithy drawings of dancers and conductors, which look as if they're made up of one single line, capture all the energy and intensity of her subjects' movement.
"Place" is like a surrealistic, slightly dystopian dream, while "How to Pass," set to a series of pithy stories by John Cage, is Cunningham at his most playful.
The pithy Post editorial comes as 71 percent of voters say that Trump's tweets are hurting his agenda, according to a new Fox News poll released on Thursday.
Like most playwrights, McDonagh excels at writing pithy and poignant lines that instantly round out his characters, often loaded with witticisms and profanities that sometimes verge on poetry.
MELBOURNE, (Reuters) - Maria Sharapova once used a pithy obscenity to describe them, Nick Kyrgios says he hates them, but every professional tennis player, when requested, has to do them.
His " My Words Your Body " project is exactly what it sounds like: He tattoos pithy, simply lettered statements of his choosing on the bodies of willing recipients,  Vice reports .
It says the rules have shrunk from 2,500 words to just 600 — with each of the reworded rules now encapsulated within a pithy tweet length (280 characters or less).
I am also a member of a Facebook group of writers and comedians who love the show and consistently share pithy observations and painstakingly well-written recaps and podcasts.
Relentless ads promised a showdown for the ages, and Donald J. Trump even made a personal appeal, pledging to post his own pithy commentary on Twitter in real time.
She's mean, she's reckless, she's bawdy, she's honest; the best analogy I can use to describe her is that she's a tragic and way less pithy Honey Boo Boo.
Stefano Zamagni, an economist at the University of Bologna (who teases modern capitalists with the pithy "a rising tide lifts only the yachts"), saw it as a watershed event.
Some experts said this sort of stereotyping was common among Americans, who often mistakenly attribute pithy sayings to Chinese sages, perhaps to give them an added aura of wisdom.
The woman serves as an "Emotional Girlfriend," agreeing to leave a toothbrush at his house, give him keys to her place, affirm his views and send him pithy texts.
During a traditional Oscars ceremony, a host would have offered a pithy joke about movie music, then Miranda would have appeared, and the evening would have proceeded as planned.
Baxter's art hits its mark over and over by setting just a handful of pithy words beneath an image as ridiculously simple and crisp as any glass of water.
Every winter when a crowd of journalists asks him to give his verdict on yet another year without the omiwatari, he'll throw out a pithy line to get laughs.
I was very concerned about past instances of racism that had ended with just pithy statements and platitudes without a meaningful commitment to invest in structural or innovational change.
An investigation among the attendees grants Mr. Andò the opportunity to pursue pithy, discursive exchanges about power, austerity and capitalism amid high-end accommodations and a tasteful classical soundtrack.
MATTEO SALVINI, the head of the Northern League, a populist party that forms part of Italy's governing coalition, has a pithy explanation for the global rise of movements like his.
"We found there was enough information in Turing's wonderfully pithy Programmers' Handbook to enable us to calculate all the audible frequencies that the Mark II could produce," wrote the researchers.
"It's a hard question and I don't have a pithy answer," Patrick said after the GOTV rally was over, in a room in the back of the Campus at Macedonia.
Let me know," added Harry Cymbler, who lists himself as "founder" of Hot Cherry, dashing off a pithy email to which he'd attached the full PR. "Details and imagery attached.
This latest name-calling follows several pithy titles Trump has attached to opponents, including (but not limited to): Crooked Hillary, Lyin' Ted, Little Marco, Crazy Bernie, and Goofy Elizabeth Warren.
You could make a case for Chris Pratt's pithy one-liners and Bryce Dallas Howard's superhuman sprint in heels as moments that nudged the industry yardsticks a few feet backwards.
Where Rajan is known for pithy one-liners at news conferences and speeches larded with social criticism, Patel is seen as more of a backroom technocrat who avoids the limelight.
His outrages have kept print- and broadcast-media attention focused on him; with nearly 8m followers on Twitter and a flair for pithy invective, he rules on social media, too.
Her special skill lies not just in her clear, clean writing, but in her general amusement about the world, her arch, pithy, dropped-mike observations about behavior, character and motivation.
Twitter, after all, required very short and pithy statements until very recently, which helped keep this particular six-word short story as a running gag on the platform for ages.
Recording with the Heartbreakers, the band he formed in the mid-29s, above, and on his own, Mr. Petty wrote pithy, hardheaded songs that gave 22s roots a contemporary polish.
A language of music and stagecraft pervades the whole book, which unfolds in a series of "Scenes"—pithy episodes from the life of the family, dense with metaphors of song.
Recording with the Heartbreakers, the band he formed in the mid-1970s, and on his own, Mr. Petty wrote pithy, hardheaded songs that gave a contemporary clarity to 1960s roots.
" When I think of all these people piling on President Trump for daring to question their worldview, the pithy phrase of author Nassim Taleb comes to mind: "IYI – Intellectual Yet Idiot.
That led many Democratic strategists to conclude that she failed to provide voters a pithy answer to what is sometimes called the Ted Kennedy question: Why are you running for president?
We are writers who met on the internet, dissecting popular culture and finding kinship in obvious and unexpected ways, by bonding over our thirst for various famous people, via pithy tweets.
You have a pithy version of that core narrative, written in the language of the kitchen table, so people will talk about it, and which is memorable, so that it sticks.
Note how well-stated, aspirational company missions such as "Connect the World" or "Organize the world's information" have inspired a wide array of projects that can fit under a pithy umbrella.
"Harvey Penick's Little Red Book," a short manual of pithy anecdotes and golf tips from a lifelong caddie, is not a Buddhist text, but it's not all that far from it.
Ms. Redoglia, 32, roams the collection, which includes more than 130,153 objects dating from antiquity to the present, snapping pictures, then coupling them with pithy one-liners for posting on Snapchat.
As play stopped so officials could review whether the initial attempt grazed the rim before the shot clock expired, Krzyzewski used the unofficial timeout to deliver his team a pithy directive.
I would catch him wearing an old Marine Corps cap to his civilian job, or a flashy T-shirt adorned with skulls, crossbones and a pithy quote from an iconic Marine.
All begin as possible announcements — pithy write-ups based on what couples say about themselves — while a few go on to become slightly longer Mini-Vows or fully reported Vows features.
Aside from the occasional first name of a friend, every character or company, the ones she's worked for as well as the ones everybody knows, is glossed with a pithy phrase.
"Every once in a while, artists have an opportunity to say something pithy, witty, even provocative," said Michael Tilson Thomas, the music director of the San Francisco Symphony and an honoree.
There was whimsy in the mirrored sculpture of Trump's pithy sobriquet, "Grab Them by the Pussy," created by Bilal and Saks Afridi; it seemed to evoke Robert Indiana "Love" sculpture knowingly.
Building off its initial "Valley Girl kills vampires" conceit, Buffy tore out of the gate with pithy dialogue that proved this teen-centric supernatural show had its own particular sense of humor.
Ellie and Joel, the main playable characters in 'The Last of Us' Hold your comment, your pithy tweet, your caustic Facebook post: I'm not saying that video games cannot tell amazing stories.
The friends tended to be little more than sidekick sounding boards, standing by to throw encouragement or pithy punchlines into the mix before disappearing until it was convenient for them to return.
It goes down easy like pilfered white zinfandel at a teenage house party, but with a pithy bitterness and a sour-acid grapefruit kick; it's made with organic Zibibbo grapes from Sicily.
The headmistress of Isolde's school, Big Mother (played to pithy perfection by Susanne Sachsse), aims to indoctrinate her students with second-wave feminist polemics that trumpet the superiority of women to men.
The right tends to go for pithy but broad slaps across the face, while the left seems to go for too-cute-by-half allusions or apt but un-sexy descriptive labels.
The candidates were more focused on attacking one another than they were on demonstrating how they'd take on President Donald Trump -- though Trump did come into play for pithy criticism, with Sen.
The love child of Donald Trump and Bridget Jones has been making people giggle with her parody Twitter account filled with pithy statements that are remarkably similar to a certain businessman turned POTUS.
A prolific author of pithy investment advice, Mr. Hirsch also created the strategy often referred to as "Sell in May and go away," and he identified a year-end seasonal "Santa Claus" rally.
Even just saying the phrase gives you such a clear mental picture: a reverse-chron river of pithy headlines about shiny objects that you brainlessly peruse while cramming a sandwich in your mouth.
Jochen Bittner HAMBURG, Germany — We have a word in German, "Wutbürger," which means "angry citizen" — though like many German compound words, its meaning can never quite be captured in a pithy English translation.
Booed off the stage, Serena gets in a few pithy salvos on her way out of the building: "The future of mankind depends on what we do today!" she shouts over the crowd.
Instead, banishing billionaires — seeking to cut their economic power, working to reduce their political power and attempting to question their social status — is a pithy, perfectly encapsulated vision for surviving the digital future.
What was once a comic in 1986 then became a pithy cartoon in 1994, which in turn became a short-lived sitcom in 2001, and now the Tick lives on yet again for Amazon.
The extended survey of the Bay Area company's short life is punctuated with the pithy title, "So Close," a nod to the spitting distance the startup came to actually bringing a product to market.
Ricciardo gained his places on strategy, with Dutch team mate Max Verstappen venting his fury over the radio with some pithy language after discovering he was behind his team mate despite starting in front.
Both are full of pithy dialog and really good character development, aided by inspiring performances from Nathan Fillion, Gina Torres, Alan Tudyk, Morena Baccarin, Adam Baldwin, Summer Glau, and the rest of the cast.
From dubbing himself "The Greatest" to his pithy nicknames for his opponents and fights, the boxer brought a level of showmanship to the sport that has seldom been witnessed among athletes before or since.
Stanton's Instagram feed — a montage of photos from shirtless workouts, vacation spots, celebrity hobnobbing and other areas of the baseball life — are often accompanied by pithy captions that show an often self-deprecating wit.
Ms. Headland is a skilled writer of pithy, funny dialogue, but the characters in "The Layover" are so often in either attack, defense or complaint mode that their eloquence does not bring much pleasure.
"That is why 'Global Britain' needs to be much more than a pithy phrase: it has to be about action, and our armed forces represent the best of 'Global Britain' in action," he said.
In "The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 16003," a wide-ranging book published in 21600, Professor Crosby examined in pithy, sometimes wry prose how disease had devastated indigenous populations after Columbus landed.
Then came a series of what I call "affirmative action" books — collections of pithy proverbs and quotes from prominent historical and contemporary black people meant to inspire the desire to implement concrete positive action.
The pithy text superimposed at the bottom of the photo elaborated: "Henceforth, my new racial designation will be neither black nor white but rather 6.25% grey, honoring my 1/16th African heritage," she wrote.
Washington (CNN)Hillary Clinton on Monday offered a succinct and pithy response to a report that President Donald Trump has suggested dropping nuclear bombs into hurricanes to prevent them from reaching the United States.
"Ideal Home" is genuinely funny, and the poignant and pithy script is aided by the chemistry between its stars, who are equally adept with comedic punch lines as they are with dramatic gut punches.
Through his popular books, lectures and viral articles, he translates Stoicism, which had counted emperors and statesmen among its adherents during antiquity, into pithy catchphrases and digestible anecdotes for ambitious, 2500st-century life hackers.
As they made their way down the boardwalk, they offered a simple and pithy assessment of the new ride, a slang phrase that could be found on plenty of those Shore shirts: "It's lit."
His framing is pithy and clear, but there are other elements that render his style striking, and it's the job of scholars and dance historians to articulate these and of documentarians to visualize them.
In today's world, where we've grown used to Google searches, pithy articles, and online videos that offer quick answers to our questions about history, it's difficult to understand why Stonewall's history is contested at all.
Perhaps as a result of these influences, the best of Wilmarth's sculptures are more than just sculptures: they could be paintings, with their intuitive lines and handling; or poetry, pithy with light and dark passages.
But the comedian and Master of None star came out with a microphone in hand, signaling that he wasn't about to do a wacky musical number or pithy intro, as is the usual SNL way.
Protest signs, pithy chants, and an orange baby blimp took up residence in Trafalgar Square and other high-profile public spaces in London as Britons protested the second day of Donald Trump's official state visit.
At an event this morning in honor of Black History Month, the president delivered a free-associative ramble about all the black people he can think of, plus a few pithy interludes disparaging the press.
There's a sameness to a lot of these offerings: the lurching from one crisis to the next; the brusque, pithy exchanges that rarely last more than a few sentences; the cursory attention to secondary characters.
The menu is at once too vast and too pithy, but if you study it long enough, you will find dishes that speak to both the elegance and the motley of eating in Hong Kong.
News Analysis WASHINGTON — When President Trump suddenly announced two weeks ago that he would meet the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, John R. Bolton suggested a pithy strategy for how the meeting should proceed.
Opinion Columnist Maybe someday, when the history of Donald Trump's presidency is written, we'll pinpoint the start of this week as his pivot into complete derangement and come up with a pithy name for it.
And in a game already replete with a tendency to self-mythologize, nearly every segment featured some pithy little callback to the days of yore, when men were men and a hit was a hit.
The 40-year-old reality star had a pithy response to a follower that commented on photos she posted of her 4-year-old son Reign Disick enjoying a weekend family getaway in Santa Ynez, California.
It's hoping that the next generation of news consumers that are drawn to its pithy format will discover its original content beyond their social feed directly on TicToc's site, now that it's developed some brand recognition.
Its music shows both songwriters' clear fingerprints: the pithy, hard-nosed clarity of Mr. Pop's lyrics and the unflinching tone of his voice; and the crispness, angularity and deft convolutions of Mr. Homme's chords and melodies.
The one before, "Anatomy of Angels," was dominated by a lengthy suite, but the new record offers up a harvest of pithy, energetic, mostly original tunes, played by a flexible cast of horns, percussionists and more.
Blue Jays 4, Yankees 63 TORONTO — Once upon a time, the Yankees had a bullpen that was so indomitable that it sent fear into opposing dugouts, shortened games, and spawned T-shirt sales and pithy nicknames.
Today's AI technology can also generate these percepts — our devices can generate scenes and faces that never existed, clone voice to generate speech, and even write pithy (if stilted) responses to the emails in your inbox.
Superficially, American Teen sounds similar in its cautious tempos and textural thinness, but the songs are pithy, hooky, and melodically simple, and as such the cascading electrobeats and soft-edged keyboards radiate warmth, a pale glow.
Sex and Rage by Eve Babitz 1979Fittingly for somebody who fucked Jim Morrison and gave him several of his best ideas, the primary, pithy and perpetual subject and fixation of Eve Babitz's career is L.A. women.
In "Reflections From a Hashtag," published in The New York Review of Books, Mr. Ghomeshi takes an almost pithy tone as he reflects on his life since he was accused of various crimes and sexual misdemeanors.
Published as a book in 1915, this compilation of brief free-verse poems — which expand tombstone epitaphs into pithy self-portraits of those buried beneath them — were once popular choices for audition pieces and classroom discussions.
The insights are based on an OkCupid analysis of messages sent over its own interface, so they're basically a reflection on how people communicated in 2009, rather than pithy advice on how to score a date.
The speaker could be a constant presence in national media, routinely appearing on Sunday morning chat shows, firing off tweets, producing in-house web videos, headlining rallies, and dishing out pithy quotes to Washington's top reporters.
Riggs put all his energy into grandstanding, supplying pithy commentary about how he intended to put the "show" back in "chauvinism," and generally making a mockery of the face-off, with a goal of drumming up attention.
These often require stylish vertical video that's a big creative jump from the tiny photo, link and text ads many are accustomed to, or even the pithy landscape videos they've learned to make for YouTube or Facebook.
The Twittersphere lit up upon news of the possible change, with many tweeters griping that it would end the short, pithy comments for which Twitter is known and turn the service into something more akin to Facebook.
We're pretty used to bombastic movie trailers: Hero X does this, Threat Y presents itself as that, fight fight fight, and then wrap it up with a pithy one-liner that leaves The Kids™ wanting more.
" The younger Mehta, heir to this pithy and barbed way with language, in evidence throughout This Land, hammers the point further home at the book's start: "We are here, my grandfather was saying, because you were there.
" Left-wing propagandists might even borrow a few of his pithy formulations of their views: Liberalism "doesn't just export its atrocities; it exports its exploitations and then brings back the profits to support the supposedly liberal arts.
" His riff on the failures of the intelligentsia, for example, ends with this pithy indictment: "Used to raising toasts to 'the success of our hopeless cause,' it did not know what to do when its cause succeeded.
And like the rest of the newspaper industry, The News has been battered and bruised by the internet age, when the equivalent of pithy headlines — a staple of The News — come a mile a minute on Twitter.
Instagram therapists are the new Instagram poets, in a way — only instead of posting free verse in typewriter font, they deal in pithy pronouncements about embracing imperfection, self-care, "growth mindset," mothering oneself, impostor syndrome and trauma.
"I think she's been a loyal kind of helper even though she can be off-topic at times or in her own world," Peretti said of her character, Gina Linetti, the precinct's pithy and punishing civilian administrator.
And aides said he had become more attentive during daily intelligence briefings thanks to pithy presentations by Mike Pompeo, the C.I.A. director, and a deeper concern about the North Korea situation than his blithe, confrontational tweets suggest.
The technical definition of an aphorism is a "pithy observation that contains a general truth," and it is the pith that gets us more than the truth; it is the tone that seals the writer to the words.
Remember that social media is consumed in small bites, usually on small screens and very often on the go, which makes it particularly suited to pithy slogans, compelling visual images and other short, simple, easily digestible sound bites.
Democratic leaders, with input from the investigating committees, are distributing a five-page set of talking points to their colleagues in which they attempt to distill Mueller's findings into pithy, digestible talking points, drawn from Mueller's own language.
The poems that comprise Debths are pithy tales of castles, imprisonment (Uncle Tom's Cabin collides with passages about castles from which damsels are rescued), and towers "with the bell ringing at / the speaker" who has left the woods.
Though not as polished as the slide decks you'd see at the main YC Demo Day at Mountain View's Computer History Museum, the videos still feature plenty of pithy buzz phrases  and up-and-to-the-right growth charts.
LW: In one email your father offers pithy advice: Years ago when I had an experience that I felt could be life changing (going to Haiti, Romania, death of my father) I was always surprised how life went on.
Reddit – The People's News If Twitter is a technological counterpart to Ernest Hemingway's rough draft of history — pithy, short, direct (give me a minute… it'll make sense) — then Reddit (another winner) is its James Joyce-style stream of consciousness.
So instead of yelling at your Aunt Jennifer about how reductive that question is, or going on a rant about the dozens of Tinder messages that never amounted to anything, we've come up with a handful of pithy responses.
Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, clearly aware that they were in the moderate candidates' crosshairs, came out swinging from their heels in this third debate, seemingly determined to land more pithy punches than any of their more moderate opponents.
Too often, these "brainstorms" would turn into marathon tangents of people volleying complaints or pithy jokes back and forth to one another across the table, while the others in the room sat around mindlessly scrolling through emails and research.
And after a career in advertising that spanned more than 40 years, that the pithy phrase he suggested in a May 1964 memo — "Nationwide is on your side" — still stands out in an increasingly fragmented and chaotic marketing landscape.
Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts brought down the house at Thursday night's series of CNN town halls on LGBTQ rights with her pithy answer to a question on what she would say to someone who didn't support same-sex marriage.
One example of how to craft a pithy USP is to alter a bland, general statement such as, "I'm a coach and consultant" to something like, "I help people work less, make more, and create referrals for life" instead.
The plywood, exterior-facing walls of under-construction coworking spaces are painted with pithy quotes about innovation, while a startup accelerator owned by Lamp Post Group called Dynamo advertises its demo day on the marquee of the local theater.
Reflect on the struggles your ancestors endured so you could exist When I think about what my ancestors went through in the shtetls of Russia so that I could tweet pithy aphorisms, it makes me feel like shit. 11.
Rhyming, pithy and playing on Netanyahu's nickname, the slogan targeting Arab politician Ahmad Tibi seems a puzzling choice for a right-wing leader whose main rival in Monday's election is not Tibi but Benny Gantz, a former Israeli general.
All the way down the grid, Ms. Iverson and Mr. Chen had taken two different across entries that shared all but one letter — PITHY at 22A and ITCHY at 24A; PRO TEM at 503A and PR TEAM at 42A.
I can already see the pithy put-downs, the references to my white privilege, the seemingly endless analyses of everything that's wrong with what I've said from a moral/political/historical/cultural perspective, the sanctimoniousness, the snarkiness, the outrage.
From the Dowager Countess (Maggie Smith) to Lady Mary (Michelle Dockery), the Crawley home has been home to plenty of pithy comments, and PEOPLE has an exclusive look back at the best insults from six seasons of the period drama.
There are whimsical moments that might just see where rhymes can lead him — "I'm gonna kiss that pretty girl/on the Tilt-a-Whirl" — but more often, his lyrics ground themselves in mundane detail on the way to pithy home truths.
Mao's ideology, distilled into a few pithy epigrams ("to rebel is justified", "serve the people" and "bombard the headquarters" is all you need to know), helped foster suffering and mayhem not only in his own country, but around the world.
Here's the full statement in all of its pithy glory, Monthly security updates will come from Google (for all models), and system updates will be managed by Verizon for Verizon models, and Google for unlocked models bought from Google Store.
His credentials include his origins as the son of rural immigrants to a tough, working-class part of Istanbul, having worked as a pushcart vendor of simit, Turkey's sesame-sprinkled progenitor of the bagel, and a pithy, populist style of delivery.
The 68th Emmy Awards are taking place this Sunday, and Jimmy Kimmel will host, which means he'll be responsible for some kind of pithy and irreverent opening monologue that will (probably clumsily) attempt to sum up the state of television.
The goal is to allow for longer, more detailed lines of questioning better suited to such a complicated and weighty subject than the typical five-minute bursts from lawmakers that make for pithy television sound bites, but yield less substantive responses.
Bush, the cousin of former president George W. Bush and nephew of the late George H.W. Bush, is known in the health-care world for speaking his mind and for lightening the mood at industry events with pithy on-stage quotes.
Montaigne appears only once in The Second Mountain, but he is an obvious animating spirit behind this strange book, which strives to emulate the great essayist's discursive style and his habit of dropping the precise, pithy quotation into a paragraph.
We got off on the wrong foot in my high school English class, where I was introduced to him as a source for pithy essay quotes rather than a first-person journey into solitude that was radical in its day.
LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister Theresa May's "Global Britain" slogan is more than a pithy phrase because the United Kingdom will be ready to flex its military muscles after it leaves the European Union, defense minister Gavin Williamson said on Monday.
" The main sock ad that appears in the chum box is paid for by a site called Fairy Season, which sells affordable clothes with pithy slogans, like this $6.99 muscle tee emblazoned with the phrase, "Killin' My Liver at the River.
Mr. Cohen has transformed his four-month anthropological field trip into a pithy day-by-day diary titled "Yellow Cab: A French Filmmaker's American Dream" (Pointed Leaf Press) that chronicles his application, schooling and, finally, his adventures behind the wheel.
On the plot side of things — yes, there's a not-insignificant number of action-free sequences — the creative use of profanity and pithy patter wouldn't be out of place in a movie like Snatch or Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.
And while two shortish episodes — at about 40 and 30 minutes, they're conspicuously pithy by the current standards of streaming drama — aren't much to judge by, at this point "The Mandalorian" is, like more than a few franchise films, pretty good.
Renner told reporters about the two long-term relationships he'd been in before his Hurt Locker breakout, but mostly deflected questions about his love life with pithy, playful answers: "I never dated, because I couldn't afford to date," he told Details.
California has a rich history of rejecting well-heeled candidates — so much so that its veteran class of operatives all have a pithy soundbite at the ready about the carcasses of millionaire candidates left to rot on the shoulders of freeways.
The series's most superfluous device is a flash-forward to 1978; the actresses Joan Blondell (Kathy Bates) and Olivia de Havilland (Catherine Zeta-Jones) are being interviewed by a documentary crew, offering pithy comments that sum up what we've already seen.
The human, all too human, neuroses laid bare in Monzó's pithy stories can be discomfiting to read for the nerves they strike — the lies we tell to get by, the rationalizations and hypocrisies, the forbidden thoughts, the randomness of events.
After the extremely pithy press conference wound down (clocking in at a breezy 25 minutes), reps walked out from behind a hidden door and brought a pair of the robo-pups into a fake living room space — the Aibo's natural habit, it seems.
With Jessica Chastain on hand to deliver his pithy retorts and provide nearly constant savvy, smarter-than-thou narration, he tells the saga of the one-time tabloid sensation who ran high stakes poker games for celebrities and scions before she was arrested.
The Women's March—whose inaugural demonstration was characterized by a sea of pink pussy hats, celebrity speakers, and pithy signs that said things like "If Hillary was president we'd be at brunch"—is promising to make a much more radical showing next year.
Just as things are about to dissolve into a haze again, a Moog arrives with an synth-pop hook, inviting a pithy, soulful trumpet statement on the way out — bolstered, of course, by an octave pedal and a fleet of acid effects.
But while those comparisons are pithy, they don't convey that Nurx is trying to be far more than just a time-saving delivery service app — its founders are hoping that it can inform women's healthcare choices and change the way people view birth control altogether.
Dr. Morrow has made a name for himself as the medical officer who dispenses pithy, unvarnished and personalized bulletins on the outbreak as it moves through his part of the country, a departure from the sterile health warnings issued by most other health officials.
In the past few months, it seems, there is a new, sad, pithy hashtag trending every week or so — a white person calling the police on a black family barbecuing, a black boy mowing a lawn or a little black girl selling bottled water.
There are other complete recorded Holmeses (as it happens, the current collection omits the last book of all, presumably on copyright grounds), but none that sustains the course so buoyantly, and none with the added pleasure of the reader's pithy commentary on each book.
Twitter's reputation as a place for quick, pithy thoughts took another blow on Tuesday: The company rolled out a new feature that will make it easier for users to send a bunch of connected tweets at one time — often referred to as a tweetstorm.
You have a limited amount of control over where the conversations go, occasionally getting a chance to choose between a few pithy responses, but no matter which answer you pick, the reward is strikingly real exchanges that had me smiling, laughing, and blushing the whole way through.
When the patent office reached its decision in 2017, it released a painfully pithy one-sentence statement, saying there was "no interference of fact," meaning Doudna and Zhang were working on two separate things, and by consequence, Zhang's work was not an "obvious" extension of Doudna's work.
" It's similar to the advice PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel gave Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, according to Zuckerberg: "Peter was the person who told me this really pithy quote: 'In a world that's changing so quickly, the biggest risk you can take is not taking any risk.
It was the usual Marvel thing of famous people in costumes saying something pithy and then an explosion or a fight or a motorcycle, but at the very end, there is an extremely brief appearance of a new, non-Tobey Maguire, non-Andrew Garfield Spider-Man.
" The "Cranford" experience led to the "Downton" connection, and "that was the beginning of something incredible," Ms. Hutton said, showing a mantelpiece displaying tea mugs with pithy sayings from Lady Violet, like "What is a weekend?" and "Why does every day involve a fight with an American?
The people she was profiling were, if it was not obvious, rich, but writing today, her statement would largely stand, perhaps amended slightly to "one person's errands have become a website's responsibility to outsource to individuals the original person will never meet" (though that's hardly very pithy).
Speaking with Noisey on the phone, he offers pithy statements on everything from playing a Satanic Temple event ("a bunch of wacky progressives who don't want people impinging on their rights") to 3D printing ("not a huge fan, I wish people would learn to mill things").
Slater is pithy, readable and generally fair, although I wish she had engaged more thoroughly with the defense of antidepressants, mounted perhaps most persuasively by Peter D. Kramer in his recent book "Ordinary Well," which explored flaws in the studies that examined the efficacy of antidepressants.
When one survey rated support for the Labour Party among 18- to 24-year-olds at 73 percent, while 64 percent of those over 65 favored the Conservatives, Matthew Goodwin, professor of politics and international relations at the University of Kent, posted a pithy observation on Twitter.
That is, until the opportunity to play the charismatic, complicated and oft-polarizing Johnnie Cochran — a persona that existed somewhere between the pithy, colorful soundbites during the Simpson trial and the relentless pursuit of social justice for people of color wronged by the system – came along.
Small-town basement gigs turned to blog buzz and a well-received five-song EP, "Over Easy," on which Diet Cig established its hallmark: peppy, overdriven anthems that transcend simple trappings on the strength of Ms. Luciano's expert phrasing and super-specific, pithy, slice-of-life lyrics.
These people are champion color-namers, who are somehow able to look at a specific hue and not just see, feel, and innately understand the the depths of its color-soul, but also devise a pithy name that will communicate all that and more to the rest of us.
On the other hand, as many were quick to point out, the BART infrastructure can be a never-ending nightmare for commuters—crumbling tracks, massive delays, fires, a police force known for violence, budget woes, bedbugs, literal shitstorms—and a few pithy tweets don't do much to fix that.
The Democratic debates so far have had a definite note of this: Serious contemplation of public policy issues is dismissed as wonkish, unless of course the politician can follow it up with a pithy sound bite or, better yet, a dubious human-interest story often difficult to fact-check.
" Sadly, they will also be shaking their heads to read Slater's odd account of snorting cocaine with one of his sources; not to mention his somewhat too pithy description of Laredo, a city founded two decades before the American colonies declared independence, as "a giant, unimproved truck stop.
" But Ms. Seymour also pointed to Ms. Brookner's pithy asides — "a fast, lethal swipe with claws extended" — like a line in "Hotel du Lac" in which the main character, Edith Hope, describing a friend, says, "She was a handsome woman of 45 and would remain so for many years.
In 1993, The Times dubbed him "the popularist of Drugstore Cowboy dressing": a pithy acknowledgment of his aesthetic, which relied heavily on synthetic fabrics, especially pleather, machine-made lace and machine-sewn sequins, animal prints and brash color combinations of black with violet, hot pink or lipstick red.
Instead we travel from topic to topic in discrete, sardonic vignettes that culminate in pithy but unsatisfying kickers: a rueful jab at the "national symphony of commerce, the most authentic-sounding American music of all," or something about the orchestra on the Titanic playing as the ship went down.
But a strong turn at a CNN town hall in March, a willingness to sit for just about any news media interview and an ability to get off pithy one-liners quickly endeared him to some Democrats, particularly upscale white voters taken with his literary references and multilingualism.
There are some pithy social observations that suggest an interest in using the encounter for purposes of class satire in the manner of Tom Wolfe, but aside from a running theme about coffee consumption, the book never commits to a sustained look at the specifics of contemporary life.
QUICK: BUT THERE WAS A FAKE TWITTER ACCOUNT, A FAKE WARREN BUFFETT TWITTER ACCOUNT THAT WENT FROM 20,000 FOLLOWERS TO 200,000 FOLLOWERS IN 24 HOURS BY TWEETING OUT ALL KINDS OF PITHY SORT OF SOUND ADVICE, THINGS THAT FOLKSY SAYINGS THAT SOUNDED LIKE IT COULD HAVE COME FROM YOU.
" Warren responded soon after publication with a pithy zinger, writing on Twitter: "What would really 'suck' is if we don't fix a corrupt system that lets giant companies like Facebook engage in illegal anticompetitive practices, stomp on consumer privacy rights, and repeatedly fumble their responsibility to protect our democracy.
That's the dependable specialty of LVL UP and Cloud Nothings, two young, guitar-led bands that are children of '90s alternative rock (Neutral Milk Hotel, Built to Spill, Nirvana), but not strict revivalists, borrowing also from later waves of pithy, loud, often self-loathing emo and pop-punk.
Many artists have spoken out against the Brexit campaign — most notably, Wolfgang Tillmans has produced a beautiful series of posters — and the creative industries have made their presence known across social media with pithy slogans and clever visual puns that are highly effective but sadly end up preaching to the converted.
The pithy snark of previous games has been replaced with an acute existential angst that evolves Nathan Drake from a quirky matinee hero to the male protagonist de rigueur; the kind of successful middle-aged man that conceals his reprehensible behavior behind good looks, buckets of charm, and moral gymnastics.
To be fair, it's a great story: A historian (in this case, the brilliant and pithy Mary Beard) preparing for a lecture searches Google for images of a tapestry that had been lost for hundreds of years—and finds it being sold in a rug shop in New York City.
But many people still circulate editorial cartoons on social media because the gifted artist can find ways -- through the art of caricature, precision of the pithy punch line, and imaginative framings of events -- to either make us see something differently or perfectly capture what we feel in an uniquely expressive way.
It was left to one of the three other women on the 28-member European Council, the ever pithy President Dalia Grybauskaite of Lithuania, to sum up the tough task, which all the leaders had hoped would never be required and which May must now take on: "#Brexit," she tweeted.
The psychologists, Rob Curnow and Karen Spehr, from a small consultancy called Community Change, began by suggesting that all members of the steering committee — made up of water industry and government employees — examine their own water use, to help them understand that wholesale change would take more than a few pithy ads.
DJ Khaled didn't become Snapchat's breakout star so much because he was a savvy user of the app (although he is) but because his brand of being a guy who jet skis bravely into the realm of the absurd armed solely with pithy aphorisms is ideal for the current age of media.
The assumed idea was that Wolf-Hunkeler would "roll on water," but reported technical difficulties that hampered the effect caused it to garner punny and pithy headlines like artnet News's "Maurizio Cattelan's Wheelchair-on-Water Performance Is More Dunk Than Slam Dunk" and incited the discussion of his possible exploitation of Wolf-Hunkeler.
And though he tends to vacillate between pithy slogans ("tattoos make the sidewalk much more entertaining," he said) and meandering anecdotes (his time as an E.M.T. in New York City in the 1990s contributed to who he is today, he said), it turns out that Mr. Roth is a man with fearsome focus.
While the show itself was hit-or-miss, with some weird racial shit that was never quite resolved, Titus, Kimmy's roommate and an actor and singer always one step away from his big break, was always there with the pithy one liners, those wonderfully expressive eyes, that voice(!), and all the melodrama.
And more: Ms. Ocasio-Cortez has done live conversations that include both cooking tips and policy pronouncements, has posted stories of her congressional experience the way others post vacation or holiday or food photos and has clapped back expertly in pithy tweets at whatever gets dished out at her by the right.
On the other hand, it is a practical handbook that suggests productive ways of running critiques in art programs (chapter 4) and provides an extensive list of terms often used in the art world without much clarity, with pithy commentary that can be useful to undergraduate and graduate fine arts studio students (chapter 5).
Munn is good enough — and Black gives her enough solid moments later on — that she eventually cobbles together a character without the setup that might otherwise seem necessary, but she's still playing at a disadvantage when compared to all of The Predator's male characters, who get the requisite pithy setup and great jokes that stand in as introduction.
The October 3, 2001, episode of The West Wing titled "Isaac and Ishmael," written and shot within two weeks of the attacks, takes a "why can't we all just get along?" approach to terrorism, with the wise and pithy main cast explaining to a bunch of high school kids how terrorists are bad but Muslims aren't.
Voiced by comedy duo Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele, the two spend less time actually reacting to yesterday's teaser and are more concerned with relentlessly mocking Buzz Lightyear's iconic "To infinity — and beyond!" catchphrase with pithy variations like "To infinity — and your mom!" in what is essentially a PG version of a Key & Peele sketch.
There's apparently a camera to fuck around with, one that you can twist and turn to see the sets of different late-night talk shows; a hologram theater with a virtual Jim Gaffigan pacing around and delivering a set; and something called "comedy karaoke," where you can try out some of your favorite pithy one-liners.
A New York-based real estate tycoon also known for running a beauty pageant, delivering a pithy catchphrase on a reality television show called The Apprentice, running an allegedly wildly fraudulent "university," subscribing to a tenuous and fairly racist conspiracy theory regarding the birthplace of President Barack Obama, and becoming the Republican nominee for the 2016 presidential election.
All three books are compendiums of enormous numbers of anecdotes from and figures on recent American life, but Cooper's is distinct both for its telling as the author's own journey and for its—yes—eloquent personal voice, which, between her erudition (she is a professor at Rutgers) and her command of vernacular, is funny, wrenching, pithy, and pointed.
While Aesop did not work his magic expressly with young audiences in mind, the pithy, visually arresting narrative mode he left his indelible mark on has proved a good match for the children's picture book, a genre that likewise thrives on brevity and the wish to reveal the essences of things in their clearest possible form.
After Mr. Trump finished his remarks, as the cameras panned away from the Capitol and the crowds began to disperse, Mr. Williams's baritone voice provided a pithy and nonpartisan summary, invoking John F. Kennedy as a historical marker and suggesting that Mr. Trump's address was a striking reminder of just how much the country has changed.
He delivered a few good, pithy, prepared lines—none better than, "She gets rich making you poor"—but his longer discussions of Middle Eastern policy and the alleged Clinton Foundation corruption could only be comprehended by an audience of hardcore Clinton haters, the people who adore Sean Hannity and Alex Jones's InfoWars and view the world as one big conspiracy.
And where our grandparents couldn't share their goofs without access to a proper printing press, it has never been easier to create memes or to share pithy quips — and so it has also never been easier to throw all of our dumb jokes and flat refusals to grapple with reality out into the communal pool and wallow in them together. p.
Art Review At art school in London a decade or so ago, the Qatari-American artist, writer and filmmaker Sophia Al-Maria came up with a pithy term, Gulf Futurism, to describe the warp-speed transformations of Dubai and other oil-rich cities: the rise of hotels, malls and museums and the incorporation of the area's Bedouin tribes into an international consumer class.
From beginning to end, Ms. Harris dominated the debate, starting with a pithy applause line — "America does not want a food fight; they want to know how we are going to put food on the table," she said, as her rivals shouted over one another — and culminating with a deeply personal exchange in which she confronted Mr. Biden over his record on race and desegregation.
Although he digresses, Sokurov, as voice-over narrator, always moves the film forward, giving the viewer much needed contextual background on the Louvre, French and Russian history (for this is as much a film about the vulnerability of Eastern European and Russian art during World War II as it is about French art), as well as pithy opinions ("people can always be bought," he declares).
Even though it appears sparse, the micro:bit is actually slightly more user-friendly than a Raspberry Pi; besides its 32-bit ARM Cortex M0 processor and 16K of RAM (sounds like a pithy number but you don't need more for programming basics) on the board, it has a micro USB connector, a battery connector, two programmable buttons and 25 programmable LEDs, which you can use to built cool projects.
The Ariana Grande Philosophy of Dating, as defined on the title song, "Thank U, Next," views love as a lifelong self-improvement session: being single or coupled makes you no more or less alone; it's okay for love to be utilitarian as long as you specify what you're using it for; and each relationship should teach you a valuable new lesson about yourself, preferably one that can be encapsulated in a pithy maxim and tied off with a bow.
Word of the Day : a person who pays more attention to formal rules and book-learning than they merit _________ The word pedant has appeared in two New York Times articles in the past year, including on May 29 in the Magazine First Words essay "How 'Everything' Became the Highest Form of Praise" by Jody Rosen: The result is rhetorical gold — ideal, in any case, for social-media banter, which places a premium on pithy hyperbole, on outsize statements delivered with minimal keystrokes.
While smoke and embers tumbling across dry hills lent itself to compelling images, and cable b-roll, cameras have no pithy way of capturing the glum indignities of the aftermath here: Like how in February, Paradise residents who'd found the temporary solution of placing an RV on their yet-to-be-cleaned properties were told by FEMA they must leave or jeopardize the entire area's share of the $1.7 billion dollars in Federal disaster cleanup funding, which pressured the local government to completely reverse its December decision to allow people back onto their burned land.
Black Lives Matter Memes An account called Black Matters posted ads and memes that frequently targeted people in Baltimore, Ferguson, and St. Louis—places where police violence sparked protests in the years leading up to the 2016 election: Generic Millennial Humor One of the more generic accounts, called Memeopolis, posted internet millennial humor, with stock images accompanied by pithy jokes: "Fuck Yeah America" Memes Several accounts, such as Angry Eagle and Army of Jesus, promoted nationalistic ideas framed as patriotism: Pride Memes Aimed at young people, accounts like LGBT United tried to garner followers that cared about gender issues and sexuality: Memes for Robot Overlords?

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