| 单词 | pithily |
| 例句 | It is impossible to express oneself in any other way so clearly and pithily. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z "I don't like being alone but I don't like being with you," Baldi sings at one point, pithily insightful in the manner of all the best succinct, hook-laden power pop. New band of the day ? No 947: Cloud Nothings 2011-01-17T17:09:39Z It was, however, Francis King in the Sunday Telegraph who pithily summarised what many of us felt, when he described the show as "a lurid Victorian melodrama produced with Victorian lavishness". Twenty-five years on, they ask me if I was wrong about Les Mis?rables ... 2010-09-21T11:48:00Z But Eyre's is the more pithily written, and more sharply analytical about both its author and others. Why the National Theatre could use a history lesson from Richard Eyre 2013-07-12T07:30:06Z Thatcher's economic policy – pithily described by AN Wilson as "sado-monetarism" – trebled unemployment and raised interest rates. We mean it, maaan!: the lost art of the pop manifesto 2010-04-29T20:30:00Z Club, whose review pithily summarizes the principal line of attack against "The Help." What we talk about when we talk about "The Help" 2011-08-17T22:18:00Z “It’s like the desert with water,” he says pithily. Richard Serra Is Carrying the Weight of the World 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z We were going to pithily sum it up as Speech Debelle in hell but it's not that extreme. New band of the day ? No 958: Sound of Rum 2011-02-01T17:00:43Z On the subject of jazz, he said pithily, “The word ‘jazz’ to me only means ‘I dare you.’ Wayne Shorter’s New Album Is ‘Without a Net’ 2013-01-31T17:38:26Z Thus the lesson pithily phrased by Auden: "Those to whom evil is done / Do evil in return." Frankenstein at the National Theatre 2011-02-12T00:05:26Z Or as he put it pithily between takes, “a punchy old guy.” Anthony Hopkins Returns to ‘King Lear,’ Finally Up to the Challenge 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z Inspired by seismic Cuban and global events, “Celia and Fidel” features characters who often tidily explain geopolitical realities to each other — when they’re not analyzing situations with pat succinctness or pithily summarizing past shared experiences. Review | She might get top billing, but ‘Celia and Fidel’ at Arena Stage shortchanges the female revolutionary 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z He's not in control of himself," a friend pithily remarks of Edison, "he's only in control of the control. Big Brother by Lionel Shriver – review 2013-05-11T07:00:24Z When men talk pithily to one another, it’s in sound bites rather than convincing conversation — e.g.: Review: ‘Texas Rising,’ a Mini-Series on Alamo Aftermath With Dialogue to Forget 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z He expressed the same sentiment a bit more pithily at the "RoboCop" premiere in London. Gary Oldman: Four prior Playboy-ish provocations 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z He subsequently added, more pithily, "I just like money." Peep Show creators came within a week of making Flight of the Conchords 2013-05-21T16:31:51Z For, as my friend summarised pithily, everything is now both your fault and your responsibility, and all of it must be achieved perfectly on levels of sleep that would normally be considered a torture weapon. The everyday trauma of childbirth made me stop at one child 2017-03-25T04:00:00Z The show has little time for frivolity as it weds the surging emotional thrust of rock with, well, the greatest story ever told, as the life of Jesus has been pithily called. Critic?s Notebook: ?Jesus Christ Superstar? and ?Camelot? at Stratford 2011-08-29T21:59:36Z “We just really hit it off when we did Airheads,” he says, referring to their first film together, pithily reviewed by Time Out in 1994 as a movie “about airheads, and for them, too”. Steve Buscemi: ‘I feel I haven’t fulfilled my true potential' 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z This smart, heartfelt saga is dragged down by talking birds who pithily argue ethics with their would-be keeper. Three New Story Collections Make Place a Protagonist 2023-05-12T04:00:00Z As Max Read pithily observed in New York magazine: “Fake news isn’t just a problem for Facebook. It’s also a solution!” Perspective | Embattled and in over his head, Mark Zuckerberg should — at least — step down as Facebook chairman 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z Joseph Chamberlain, the most charismatic politician of the late-Victorian age, put it more pithily. Britain at the Turn of the 20th Century Was Dealing With a Lot, Badly 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z Rarely has a transatlantic voyage and its limited diversions been so pithily evoked. Review | ‘French Exit’ gives a witty look at a rarefied world 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z His focus on African Americans in his community affirms that value, pithily summed up by the meme Black Lives Matter. Andre D. Wagner's stirring photographs tell it like it is 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z Or as Davies pithily explains it, “In the newsroom without boundaries, there was one thing which was not tolerated: failure.” ‘Hack Attack,’ About a Rupert Murdoch Paper’s Trials, by Nick Davies 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z Egan pithily sums up the current state of Christianity in Europe: “Where the rules of the spiritual here and hereafter were shaped over centuries of bloodshed, it’s all a shrug.” Timothy Egan Makes Room for the Holy Spirit 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z Vladimir Nabokov’s book on Gogol describes the character more pithily: He is “a soap bubble blown by the devil.” The Russian Comic Writer Who’s an Antidote to Mad Times 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z Mostly, he struggles with maintaining balance as success washes over him, or, as he pithily acknowledges in “Lord Knows,” he’s “looking for the right way to do the wrong things.” Album review: Drake, 'Take Care' 2011-11-13T19:26:00Z Yet both meals were decidedly Iowan, and dismantled the illusion that in three days of cruising the state’s two-lane highways I could somehow pithily define its food. Frugal Traveler: Eating in Iowa: Farm-Fresh, Fried and Frugal 2013-08-14T22:43:34Z Then there's the rather pithily titled itsonitsgone.com, which mixes theatre reviews and film coverage, providing an overview of what's happening north of the border. Local heroes 2010-06-04T15:11:00Z Impeccably researched and pithily written, Bellos’s book provides an important corrective to these kinds of distortions. The Legacy of ‘Les Misérables’: Charting the Life of a Classic 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z Page one of the 115 pages of written evidence provided by Dominic Cummings - and now on the inquiry's website - rather pithily summarises a core reason for those "fights". 'Stiletto row' official to appear at Covid inquiry 2023-10-31T04:00:00Z Willis’ team pithily punctured that argument by pointing out that they were pretend electors. Column: Trump's aide Mark Meadows faces a huge legal setback. It should worry both of them 2023-09-11T04:00:00Z Funder puts both versions side by side and describes hers as “pithily alive.” Was George Orwell's monstrous behavior responsible for his wife's death? 2023-08-18T04:00:00Z Perhaps the ideas are expressed no more pithily than in the song’s final words: “This is a life / This is our life.” These songs consider loneliness, connectedness and a wild dance-off 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z As Kaiser puts it pithily, if Alice tweets at Bob which detector setting she’s in, that interference makes ruling out hidden variables impossible. The Universe Is Not Locally Real, and the Physics Nobel Prize Winners Proved It 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z Alasdair Bruce pithily summarises the big - and constantly growing - problem he and other bosses at the British Library face at its massive northern base in West Yorkshire. Building a bigger home for the British Library collection 2022-03-11T05:00:00Z Watching “2 Lizards” a year and a half after it debuted, I’m struck by how much it has to tell us, and how pithily and lightly it does so. What Comes Next for an Artist Whose Work Goes Viral? 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z I had already spoken to a historian — Harvey J. Kaye, the editor of "FDR on Democracy" — who pithily summed up the logic behind that point of view. FDR once tried to purge disloyal Democrats — would it work for Biden to do the same? 2021-09-26T04:00:00Z Former Gov. Gray Davis, the Democrat who was recalled in 2003, put it more pithily: “He was a gift from God,” he said of Mr. Elder. Newsom’s Anti-Trump Recall Strategy Offers Republicans a Warning for 2022 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z “Could it really be ‘okay,’ ” as Schillace pithily asks, “to take off someone’s head?” Review | Transplant an organ? Why not an entire body? 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z On a morning Zoom interview from Los Angeles last week, Reeves pithily recounts that meeting of like minds: “They went, ‘Comic book.’ Keanu Reeves on the joy of writing his first comic book: ‘Why not? That sounds amazing!’ 2021-03-03T05:00:00Z The unofficial reason, which New York University journalism professor Jay Rosen pithily calls "refuge seeking," is that the "objective" approach protects editors and reporters from criticism – specifically, from accusations of bias. Are we witnessing the final collapse of "objective" political reporting? Let's hope so 2020-08-03T04:00:00Z It was perfectly timed and it made me laugh and it also pithily summarized a running complaint about both “The Irishman” and “Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood.” How I learned to stop worrying and ... ahem ... love the Oscars' best picture choice 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z Saxe pithily calls for redirecting some of our energy toward building “excellent dumb cities.” The case for ... making low-tech 'dumb' cities instead of 'smart' ones 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z Or, even more pithily, from the former deputy chief of staff to longtime Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid: Press Watch: Democrats who are undecided on impeachment aren't "moderates." They're hacks 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z Or, as he pithily put it: “Pensions or regional governments?” 'They tell the truth’: Spanish town where 34.5% voted for far-right Vox 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z To his credit, Mr. Kent, a 27-year veteran of the Foreign Service, responded pithily. Opinion | Kent and Taylor testify to Trump’s corruption. And more evidence is coming. 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z To one camp, he is a master storyteller, pithily translating business concepts and behavioral science to a lay audience. With ‘Talking to Strangers,’ Malcolm Gladwell Goes Dark 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z One might ask, more pithily: how the hell did we get here? A no-deal Brexit even after a no-confidence vote: how could it happen? | Matthew d’Ancona 2019-08-04T04:00:00Z “He was not the most verbose person you ever met,” says son Mark, with Janet pithily adding, thinking back, “he didn’t like to talk about much and he never did talk about much.” Review: ‘Armstrong’ examines the man behind the moon landing 2019-07-11T04:00:00Z In his dissent, Gorsuch pithily described the consequences of the majority’s reasoning: Editorial Roundup: Excerpts from recent editorials 2019-06-19T04:00:00Z On another occasion he put the same point, pithily but grandiosely, like this: “I’m the Medici to my own Leonardo.” 'Disneyland for adults': John Portman's dizzying interior legacy 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z After reading a while in bed, I realized that not every Dickinson poem is as pithily perfect as “The Brain is wider than the Sky.” A Buddhism Critic Goes on a Silent Buddhist Retreat 2018-08-05T04:00:00Z But when asked about the requests for success on the soccer field, she pithily responded, “He performs miracles, but not that many.” Mexico’s World Cup prayer: Deliver us beyond the round of 16 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z Other publications took a more relaxed tone: New York magazine published a pithily titled Royal Wedding Guide for the Apathetic But Curious. 'We feel like part of it': watching the royal wedding at a New York bar 2018-05-19T04:00:00Z At the end of the first verse, Michael pithily sets out this kind of doublethink: now he knows “what a fool I’ve been, but if you kissed me now, I know you’d fool me again”. Still saving us from tears: the inside story of Wham!'s Last Christmas 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z Mr. O’Reilly brought up Russia, and pithily declared: “But he’s a killer, though. Putin’s a killer.” Opinion | Trump’s moral blind spot 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z Ginsburg more pithily said in a concurrence that laws that “do little or nothing for health but rather strew impediments to abortion, cannot survive judicial inspection.” 3 questions about the Supreme Court’s future: (Yes, Trump probably could nominate his sister) 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z More specifically no elite football nation would outsource such an important role and there is also a moral imperative, as pithily noted by Frank Sobotka in the Wire. World Cup 2018 qualifiers: 10 talking points from the latest matches 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z “Race. Black. Increased probability” of future dangerousness, was how the “expert” pithily put it. Supreme court to address Duane Buck's 'racially tainted' death sentence 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z Later, this too became pithily contracted to “all portraiture is caricature”. Pablo’s people: the truth about Picasso's portraits 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z It’s because he undermines our philosophical assumptions about the nature of reality more pithily than a truckload of conceptual artists. This is not an article: why René Magritte is a timeless genius 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z At times, I would beat my head, wondering why real-life characters couldn’t put things in ways which more pithily expressed their purposes. David Hare – nothing but the truth about a Holocaust denier 2016-09-03T04:00:00Z Only this for now: What he gets wrong he gets very wrong, while what he gets right he gets stunningly, pithily right. Trump opposed Iraq. Hillary voted for war: Let’s take his foreign policy vision seriously 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z This Ontario pop force wears her youth cozily, with exultant ballads that speak to millions—and lyrics that pithily quote advice from her mom and dad. The Teenagers Shaping Pop 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z The ethical dilemma is put pithily on the website of the archdiocese of St Louis under the headline: “Can I still buy Girl Scout cookies?” Missouri Catholics in cookie crisis as archbishop questions Girl Scout values 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z I am what you want and what you need, even if I can’t quite define what I am pithily or precisely.” The opportunities and opportunism of George H.W. Bush 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z Mr. Graham, the senator from South Carolina, pithily described what it meant to be in the undercard event: “It sucks.” Republicans at Early Debate Fight for a Breakthrough Moment 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z Again, Orwell put it more pithily: War is peace. Full Orwell 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z While its wording is pithily simplistic, the hashtag’s sentiment is essentially correct. The Greek Deal Spells The End For The Democratic European Project 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z Roberts’s intellectual complexity does not prevent him from expressing himself pithily, as he did with those words when dissenting in a case from Arizona. The wrinkle in the Affordable Care Act decision 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z "Sponsors run for the hills, you get bad publicity, and a sport's finances suffer," he says pithily. How match fixers can cripple a sport's economic future - BBC News 2015-05-17T04:00:00Z In 2013, on her induction into the international hall of fame, Long reflected pithily on the differences between the tennis of her era and that of the present day. Thelma Coyne Long, Australian Tennis Champion, Dies at 96 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z In his essential book Economics and the Public Welfare, Benjamin Anderson pithily observed that high unemployment is the preserve of rich nations that are willing to pay for it. Jennifer Aniston's Love Life As A Positive Metaphor For U.S. Unemployment 2015-03-07T05:00:00Z Founders Fund, Thiel’s venture capital firm, put it pithily: “We wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters,” referring to Twitter. Fareed Zakaria: American innovation is in trouble 2015-01-01T05:00:00Z As Levering Lewis puts it pithily, in order to get absolute authority– no mind what his board or Spingarn thought– “he played the race card to get his way.” Joel and Amy Einstein Spingarn , White Jewish Leaders of the Civil Rights Movement 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z More pithily, it lives by the dictum attributed to Churchill that he needed just one American soldier to ensure Europe’s defence, “preferably dead”. On a wing and a prayer 2014-05-01T04:00:00Z Johnny Herman made the point more pithily: “Software is eating the world.” Why Software Is Eating The World 2014-04-11T13:44:00Z Texas Rangers manager Ron Washington is a fount of pithily fatalistic, doggedly ungrammatical baseball quotes, including the classics “He do what he do” and “That’s the way baseball go.” Baseball’s greatest songs: 27 perfect songs, from Springsteen, Dylan and more 2014-03-29T15:00:00Z Or as Mr Letta put it more pithily to the Italian parliament, “budget consolidation alone will kill Italy.” Charlemagne: After austerity, what? 2013-05-02T15:06:02Z Luke Heneghan, a senior from Long Island, pithily summarized the mood around campus as “just weird.” Manti Te’o Hoax Disclosure Was Up to Him, Notre Dame Says 2013-01-18T02:23:42Z Mr. Carlson put it slightly more pithily: “Links are what I’m after.” Tucker Carlson Angles for Daily Caller Clicks, Not Fights 2012-10-08T02:50:28Z The former merger aficionado Philip J. Purcell, who headed up the pithily named Morgan Stanley Dean Witter Discover, wrote a recent Wall Street Journal opinion article suggesting that shareholders should break up the banks. The Trade: Few Repercussions in the Conversion of a Former Wall St. Titan 2012-08-01T16:00:40Z "And what was a riot will be a revolt," he said pithily. The Red Cockade 2012-03-30T02:00:19.603Z In the form or manner of aphorisms; pithily. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z An aphorism is a short sentence pithily expressing some valuable and general truth or sentiment. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z This part of the plot is brought out shortly and pithily. Paris and the Parisians in 1835 (Vol. 1 of 2) 2012-02-29T03:00:23.930Z “Coffee might as well be green tea and Mountain Dew might as well be sugar cubes,” Stevens said, pithily summarizing Streicher’s findings. For Butler, the Road Back Is Bumpy 2012-02-14T02:32:47Z We agree with Mark Zuckerberg when he pithily opined “The age of Privacy is Over.” The World's Worst Privacy Policy 2012-01-25T17:05:56Z His character might be pithily expressed in the words which he poetically wished might be inscribed on his tomb: "He served his country, and loved his kind." Donahoe's Magazine, Volume XV, No. 3 Volume XV (Jan 1886-Jul 1886) 2012-01-23T03:00:12.223Z As the poet pithily puts it— “Truth is always strange, Stranger than fiction: if it could be told, How much would novels gain by the exchange.” Curiosities of Impecuniosity 2011-12-31T03:00:16.190Z He quotes a Chinese businessman who puts this prospect more pithily: “I hope Western sanctions will remain forever.” Where China Meets India ? By Thant Myint-U ? Book Review 2011-10-23T01:30:17Z She had pithily expressed her disdain of them. The Secret Toll 2011-09-12T02:00:26.853Z These house servants form the acquaintance of some illicit diamond buyer, or I.D.B., as he is pithily called, to whom they sell the precious stones. An I.D.B. in South Africa 2011-08-31T02:01:33.733Z Time was precious; there was much to be done; "and to stay," he says pithily, "to dig out gold with our nails had been opus laboris but not ingenii." Great Ralegh 2011-08-16T02:00:43.100Z "Hell upside down!" as the man next to me pithily said—a parson's son like myself, but from Kent, Pembury in Kent, where young Battersby is still not forgotten. A Tatter of Scarlet Adventurous Episodes of the Commune in the Midi 1871 2011-08-04T02:00:19.957Z Indeed, he was more than a husband: he was, as an intimate friend once pithily remarked, a very mother to her. Mathilde Blind 2011-07-27T02:00:25.473Z Charmingly printed and illustrated by chromo-lithography—in which the art of drawing foliage is very pithily but neatly set forth. Blackie & Sons Catalogue - 1886 Books for Young People 2011-06-16T02:00:16.233Z "And I shall see Madame safely to Paris, feeling that a Frenchman can serve France best not with the Germans but with the French," remarked the Count pithily. The Old Blood 2011-06-13T02:00:22.897Z Ellen was never one of those chattering women—though she could express herself pithily and gracefully when she had anything to say—but she was the most inspiring listener I have ever seen. Donald McElroy, Scotch Irishman 2011-06-04T02:00:12.520Z The sentiment of the people for this strange Senator Romanus expressed itself touchingly and pithily in his supposed epitaph: "One God, One Rome, One Roland." Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z “He so pithily articulated the argument that once it was made, it was really hard to do anything else,” Mr. Thompson said. News Analysis: In ?Daily Show? Role on 9/11 Bill, Echoes of Murrow 2010-12-27T02:24:19Z As the authors pithily put it: "China lent Americans the rope they used to hang themselves." Crisis Economics: A Crash Course in the Future of Finance by Nouriel Roubini and Stephen Mihm 2010-05-22T23:05:00Z Benedict Brogan, the deputy editor of the Daily Telegraph newspaper put it more pithily: "Vote Churchill; Elect Stalin." U.K. Election: Clegg's Liberal Democrats Shake Up Polls 2010-04-20T08:40:00Z "America doesn't need Green jobs," he tweeted pithily last month, "but Red, White, & Blue ones." In West Virginia, coal miner's slaughter 2010-04-09T22:10:00Z "If it goes well, we may finally be able to welcome the leprechaun back to respectability," he says pithily. New National Leprechaun Museum Opens in Dublin, Ireland 2010-03-11T20:00:00Z How pithily, too, the braggart is brought before us in the saying, "If they had not dragged me from underneath him I should have killed him!" Proverb Lore Many sayings, wise or otherwise, on many subjects, gleaned from many sources The fighting seemed to have shifted to the west and south-west, and Joos put an unerring finger on the situation when he said pithily, “Liège is making a deuce of a row after being taken.” The Day of Wrath A Story of 1914 I think, Signor Corsini, you have very pithily defined our friend’s deficiencies. The Intriguers Their versification is smooth, and they generally scan accurately: the ideas are expressed pithily, at times epigrammatically and wittily. Allan Ramsay Famous Scots Series I didn’t ‘work it,’ as you so pithily express it, Vedder, at all. Under Boy Scout Colors Cervantes puts this yet more pithily in his definition, "Short sentences drawn from long experience." Proverb Lore Many sayings, wise or otherwise, on many subjects, gleaned from many sources Its mode of representation he pithily characterized as "heavy machinery." Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century All knowledge was long aphoristical and traditional, pithily contracting the discoveries which were to be instantly comprehended and easily retained. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 He glanced his eye over them and pithily remarked, “Why these rules would exclude God Almighty!” Benjamin Franklin A Picture of the Struggles of Our Infant Nation One Hundred Years Ago American Pioneers and Patriots Series It is given most pithily in the lines— We live by admiration, hope, and love; And even as these are well and wisely fused, The dignity of being we ascend. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) How true and how pithily put are these, "He that studies his content wants it." Proverb Lore Many sayings, wise or otherwise, on many subjects, gleaned from many sources Tom Paine could not put it more pithily or expressively. The Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, Bart., K.C.S.I. A Judge of the High Court of Justice There was a period when real thinkers, as Locke and Berkeley and Butler and Hume, tried to express themselves as pithily and pointedly as possible. Social Rights and Duties, Volume I (of 2) Addresses to Ethical Societies She there pithily stated the substance of all that has since been said respecting the logic of woman's right to the ballot; and finding myself unable to answer, I accepted it. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III There was more in them,—“less of the husk, and more of the kernel,” as Miss Middleton once remarked rather pithily. Not Like Other Girls Douglass has pithily said: "Judge us not from the heights on which you stand, but from the depths from whence we sprung." Shadow and Light An Autobiography with Reminiscences of the Last and Present Century This was the dilemma of the New Thomists, so pithily expressed by one of themselves in the second Letter. Pascal "Will any editor in the world," Herr von Bunsen pithily remarks, "hesitate to confirm my belief that no MS. of the last unfledged stripling of an author was ever offered on similar conditions?" Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 2 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History This saying emphasizes pithily the dependence of psychology upon physiology. Intestinal Ills Chronic Constipation, Indigestion, Autogenetic Poisons, Diarrhea, Piles, Etc. Also Auto-Infection, Auto-Intoxication, Anemia, Emaciation, Etc. Due to Proctitis and Colitis It very briefly but pithily applies to those who, while anxiously correcting trifling errors, allow greater ones to pass unheeded: who strain at gnats, and swallow camels. The Proverbs of Scotland Such late hours, of course, amply accounted for these late breakfasts; but why, so Miss Mapp pithily asked herself, why these late hours? Miss Mapp "The way to the heart of the poor," as she pithily puts it, "lies through their stomachs." Stray Studies from England and Italy The point was more pithily, and as truly, put by Mr. Horace Greeley in the Tribune. The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete And the thoughts of all were pithily put in the one sentence by a private of No. 2 Platoon. Between the Lines Lord Cromer, in fact, pithily summarizes this critical attitude in his statement: "Islam cannot be reformed; that is to say, reformed Islam is Islam no longer; it is something else." The New World of Islam For a long time afterwards Punch gave no quarter to the 'Red Indian of debate' who, as Sir James Graham pithily phrased it, 'cut his way to power with a tomahawk.' The History of "Punch" Ulysses, Nestor, and Agamemnon figure in Shakespeare’s play as brave generals and sagacious statesmen, and in their speeches Shakespeare concentrated a marvellous wealth of pithily expressed philosophy, much of which has fortunately obtained proverbial currency. A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles She there pithily states the substance of all that has since been said respecting the logic of woman's right to the ballot, and finding myself unable to answer it, I accepted it. Political Recollections 1840 to 1872 Mr. Davis spoke little, seeming to find a refreshing element in her talk, that—as she pithily said of some one else—was like tea, that cheers but not inebriates. Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death But Sam Leech remarks pithily, that to him "it was a pleasing sight; for he had seen fighting enough for one Sabbath,—more, indeed, than he wished to see again on a week-day." The Naval History of the United States Volume 1 Ewell's division poured through—Ewell on the flea-bitten grey, Rifle, swearing his men forward, pithily answering the happy people, all the while the church bells clanging. The Long Roll The imperative issue, as pithily stated by Lincoln, was, all slave or all free states. Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography. It always adds to the value of a good story that it be briefly as well as pithily told, and disencumbered from unnecessary details. The Norsemen in the West The men pulled “with a will,”—as seamen pithily express it,—and in silence. The Lighthouse The queen graciously received it with both hands, and answered his harangue "marvellous pithily." Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth Nobody has ever more pithily stated the case. The Masques of Ottawa "Dead men," he pithily remarked, "need no guards." South American Fights and Fighters And Other Tales of Adventure "We can't see the color of our money," he said pithily, "but we can have our own back." Love Among the Chickens A Story of the Haps and Mishaps on an English Chicken Farm He was not blind to the aspect of affairs which Tollemache had summarized so pithily. The Captain of the Kansas Mr. Greeley divines the question before it is finished, and answers it pithily and quickly. Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City The matter, thus pithily put, did not require much consideration. Under Drake's Flag A Tale of the Spanish Main They had been buried in their brocades, as has been pithily remarked, and forgotten. South American Fights and Fighters And Other Tales of Adventure From Montreal he addressed a letter to Congress in which he said pithily: "till Quebec is taken, Canada is unconquered." The Bastonnais Tale of the American Invasion of Canada in 1775-76 As often happens—and very naturally—Jervis's preoccupation with considerations wider than his own command found expression, twice at least, in phrases which pithily summed up his steadfast enduring habit of mind. Types of Naval Officers Drawn from the History of the British Navy Mr. Shortreed observed very pithily of Walter Scott’s early rambles on the borders, ‘He was makin’ himsell a’ the time; but he didna ken, may be, what he was about till years had passed. Memoir of Jane Austen Watts's Essay is so pithily written, and so full of sense and propriety, that it long maintained a high position in our literature; he tells us, that it had become a text-book in the University. Practical Essays The home is the place where you get what the common people so pithily call your "bringing up." The Young Man and the World You happen, indeed, to be quoted, because you happened to express more pithily than had been done by themselves, one of the mottos of the party. Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4 "If his imagination," says Pattison, pithily, "is not active enough to assist the poet, he must at least not resist him." Life of John Milton It was Mark Twain who pithily summed up a prevailing opinion when he said that "the classics are the books everybody praises—and nobody reads." Inquiries and Opinions As the dramatic critic of The Sabbath Scoop pithily remarked, it is just "one long feast of laughter and lingerie," and its nightly triumph is the only vindication it requires. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, 1920-07-28 Or as one who much gloried in his owne wit, whom Persius taxed in a verse very pithily and pleasantly, thus. The Arte of English Poesie "The Return of Yen-Tchin-King."—There may be an involuntary anachronism in my version of this legend, which is very pithily narrated in the Kan-ing-p'ien. Some Chinese Ghosts They pronounced their opinions shortly and pithily, giving their reasons in a few words, until it came to Spikeman's turn, who spoke more at length. The Knight of the Golden Melice A Historical Romance He saw himself speaking them pithily to various persons with whom he might be in conflict. Bunker Bean When Sir Thomas More asked how Tyndale subsisted abroad, he was pithily answered that Tyndale was supported by the Bishop of London, who sent over money to buy up his books. English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction The men pulled "with a will,"—as seamen pithily express in silence. The Lighthouse It would be difficult to state more pithily the ultimate significance of Clausewitz's doctrine. Some Principles of Maritime Strategy "Now that we're down, we don't need it," he remarked, pithily. Dutch Courage and Other Stories This arrangement, however, was to some extent rendered nugatory by cute people who had what was pithily termed "a leg" of the butcher. The Siege of Kimberley Of Whewell it has been pithily said, that "science was his forte, and omniscience his foible." English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction In consequence, he slipped out of Monastir, "for," as it is pithily put by Marmol, "our corsair cared not to be shut up in so defenceless a port; he had good heels and loved sea-room." Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean As regards the strategic question, it may be said pithily that the phrase "ulterior objects" embodies the cardinal fault of the naval policy. The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 Every once in a while he looked up from the book to explain a phrase in terms the men would understand, or to comment pithily on some similarity in their own experience. The Rules of the Game The solicitor-general put it very pithily awhile ago when he said our crime was "glorifying the cause of murder." The Wearing of the Green, or The Prosecuted Funeral Procession The wise, if apocryphal, Ecclesiasticus, sagely and pithily remarked, many centuries before modern civilization was invented: Jest not with a rude man lest thy ancestors be disgraced. Children of the Ghetto A Study of a Peculiar People They sum up the life tragedies pretty pithily, in these clubs. The Shadow of the Rope I heard an old Scottish Episcopalian thus pithily describe the hasty and irreverent manner of a young Englishman:--"He ribbled aff the prayers like a man at the heid o' a regiment." Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character "In which case you will shortly eat Her Majesty's bread," pithily returned the Alderman. The Water-Witch or, the Skimmer of the Seas Hegel's bold and oft quoted words "What is rational is real; and what is real is rational," pithily express his whole doctrine. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 07 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes The cure which the average man has to propose is pithily summed up in the phrase: "Girls ought to stay at home." The Trade Union Woman Harford pithily remarks: "As none of the suitors of Penelope could bend the bow of Ulysses, so one hand alone was capable of wielding the pencil of Buonarroti." The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti Some of the prejudices, which are expressed more pithily in Boswell, are defended by a reasoned exposition in the Lives. Samuel Johnson Edison sums up this chapter of his life very pithily. Edison, His Life and Inventions For I am a plodding kind of fellow, Copperfield, and had learnt the way of doing such things pithily. David Copperfield As to the phoenix, he denies its existence, not only because Noah took no such bird into the ark, but also because, as he pithily remarks, "birds come from eggs, not from ashes." History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom As pithily as might be, for she was in no condition for tedious listening, I gave her the history of her nine years' sleep. The Lost Continent "And is this gentleman Sir George Templemore?" pithily demanded Captain Truck. Homeward Bound or, the Chase His thoughts are never pithily expressed, but with a stately and sonorous proclamation, as if under the open sky, that seems to me very noble. Among My Books Second Series Thus pithily wrote Henry Thoreau, the quaint philosopher, in his little shack by the beautiful Walden pool. The Fourth Watch As Phaedrus says it, pithily, The master's is the eye to see:-- I add the lover's, as for me. Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes "Had you gone on, in the regular line of promotion, my dear sir," pithily inquired Captain Truck, "to what preferment would you have risen by this time?" Home as Found "A vessel of war should not insult an unarmed ship, sir!" rejoined Captain Truck, pithily. Homeward Bound or, the Chase As Dr. Schechter pithily puts it: 'Somebody, either the learned professors, or the millions of the Jewish people, must be under a delusion.' Judaism The same thought was more pithily expressed by Marcus Aurelius in the aphorism that "what is good for the hive is good for the bee." A Handbook of Ethical Theory He described pithily the voyage out, the social pitfalls, the essence of "good Anglo-Indian form," and he was astonished at the keenness of the questions with which he was plied by his employer. A Fascinating Traitor An Anglo-Indian Story Very pithily he observes that Byzantium will be safe enough if the city will only be loyal to the Athenian alliance. A Day in Old Athens; a Picture of Athenian Life "We can't see the colour of our money," he said pithily, "but we can have our own back." Love Among the Chickens This place was vulgarly and pithily denominated by a certain magistrate as the great public wash-house of all the dirty linen in Paris. File No. 113 I objected to his hounds scrambling over this property and wrote pithily to that effect. Who Cares? a story of adolescence There's this difference," he returned pithily; "a gun is a good enough fellow to deserve Christian burial. On the Firing Line In this he related pithily Alfred's incarceration, and the present attempt to recapture him, with the particulars of his escape. Hard Cash On appealing to Mounsey for his opinion on this matter, he observed pithily, 'I don't like so much law: the gentlemen here seem fond of law, but I have law enough at chambers.' Table Talk Essays on Men and Manners Mr. Booth has pithily characterized certain benevolent schemes as doing sixpennyworth of good and a shilling's worth of harm. Evolution and Ethics "The young man is gone," he answered pithily. From the Memoirs of a Minister of France Fresh water," resumed Cap pithily; "you are not to expect too much of the young man, Mabel. Pathfinder; or, the inland sea They have a quick perception of character, and a keen sense of humour; the dwellers among them must be prepared for certain uncomplimentary, though most likely true, observations, pithily expressed. Life of Charlotte Brontë — Volume 1 Either he was out of facts to get straight, or lacked what is so pithily termed "come-back." A Straight Deal or The Ancient Grudge As the English Chronicles pithily puts it, “the King gave away every man’s land.” William the Conqueror |
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