| 单词 | pithiness |
| 例句 | All logos are reductive, but the bold color, the pithiness, the implication of first-name familiarity and, yes, the exclamation point made this the great pop-art image of the campaign. 5 presidential candidates and the art that shows how we feel about them 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z These poems may display an increased pithiness or impressively novel phrasing, but this offers little recompense to the reader already familiar with Polley's poetry. The Havocs by Jacob Polley – review 2013-01-04T21:55:01Z Humor definitely got a lot of points, and pithiness. From Du Bois to Dr. Dre: A New Bartlett’s Celebrates Black Quotations 2013-11-18T18:30:34Z Jesse Elliott, its lead singer, likes pithiness and order in his songs, often clearing space for a graceful turn of phrase. Critics? Choice: New CDs From Korn, Currensy and Tom Jones 2010-07-26T00:05:00Z Ms. Marrero is the find, giving her blunt, brainy character an appealing pithiness. Review: Inventing a Better Bitcoin in ‘StartUp,’ New on Crackle 2016-09-05T04:00:00Z Along the way, mild pithiness occasionally works its way in. Review: ‘Join or Die With Craig Ferguson’ — Historic Errors 2016-02-17T05:00:00Z On the left, the use of vulgarity seems more desperate, born of a need to keep up with the competition in a media environment that thrives on both pithiness and shock. Perspective | The world is going to $#!+, but our language shouldn’t 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z By November, most Americans agreed, though Trump’s contesting the election results and refusal to concede has turned late night’s pithiness into pity, as what Jimmy Kimmel has coined “Squattergate” continues. Late Night in 2020: The Show Must Go Home 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z But the pithiness of this new volume is ideally suited to its subject. A Look at Competition in Business Urges Us to Think Small 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z “No one is ahead of his time,” he says, and the pithiness and humor of the remark make you smile. Review: Interpreting Gertrude Stein in ‘Composition ... Master-Pieces ... Identity’ 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z By contrast, this week's research suggests musicians are more inclined to use pithiness as a chance to crack wise. Readers recommend songs with 10 words or fewer: The results 2010-06-03T20:30:00Z “Bridge” was originally written as a shorter play, and it retains the poetic pithiness of a concentrated form. Review: ‘A View From the Bridge’ Bears Witness to the Pain of Fate 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z Whereas Strange’s glibness with patients and his peers made him unlikable almost to ridiculousness in the first Doctor Strange, here it plays much more like pithiness Cumberbatch is occasionally able to accent with charm. Doctor Strange 2 gets lost in a tangle of fan service and half-baked ideas 2022-05-03T04:00:00Z For four years, Donald Trump’s interpretation of his powers made up in pithiness what it lacked in nuance: “I have an Article II, where I have the right to do whatever I want as president.” Opinion | Don’t let Trump’s ‘privilege’ claim thwart the Jan. 6 investigation 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z The replies to that tweet are Twitter at its finest pithiness. All vaxxed up and nowhere to go? Not Nicki Minaj, who's skipping the Met Gala 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z There is a great premium on pithiness, and, of course, you have to have an idea—probably one and a half ideas, something to give it a little bit of a tweak near the bottom. The Times Columnist Roger Cohen on the Future of India 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z “I’m ready for this job,” he concluded, then evaluated his pithiness: “That was 58.2 seconds.” In Miami, the Democratic debate circus begins well before the candidates take the stage 2019-06-26T04:00:00Z By insisting on pithiness, Twitter only amplifies this sensation of smallness. I'm Ashamed of Who I Am on Twitter 2015-03-07T05:00:00Z His speeches were known for their pithiness and deep meaning. India Ink: A Tribute to the Uncrowned Travancore King 2013-12-24T12:00:30Z At the Supreme Court on Tuesday, he matched rhetoric to action with a pithiness that underscores his opposition to racial preferences. In U.S. top court race case, John Roberts is chief phrasemaker 2013-10-16T00:10:58Z The conversation between the prince and the sorcerer-miller is somewhat changed as much of it seemed rather irrelevant to the chief interest of the story, and lacking in pithiness. Polish Fairy Tales 2011-07-10T02:00:20.137Z The exigencies of the Chinese language make a literal translation often scarcely endurable or possible, while a lengthened paraphrase gives a wordiness that is not a true reflection of the epigrammatic pithiness of the original. Proverb Lore Many sayings, wise or otherwise, on many subjects, gleaned from many sources How these things promote terseness and pithiness of speech! 1931: A Glance at the Twentieth Century His one and two line bits of comment and wisdom were models of pithiness, and few writers have equalled him in masterly skill in argument. Famous Firesides of French Canada In pithiness of style, sureness of touch and dispassionate judgment, he contrasted Acton as an historical writer with Macaulay, to the latter's disadvantage. War Letters of a Public-School Boy Mrs. Stanton spoke on the general question with great force and pithiness. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II Their version of the 15th psalm is more to be esteemed for its pithiness than its poetry. Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4 They are characterized also by precision and pithiness of statement, and are probably as trust-worthy as official records ever are. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 1 Dryden, citing approvingly Denham's verses to Fanshawe, "They but preserve his ashes, thou his flame, True to his sense, but truer to his fame," says, with his usual pithiness, "Too faithfully is indeed pedantically." The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 39, January, 1861 Christian the Fifth's Danish Law attracted me exclusively on account of its language and the perspicuity and pithiness of the expressions occasionally made use of. Recollections of My Childhood and Youth On the whole, it was the same Emerson—he stumbled at a quotation as he always did; but his thoughts were such as only Emerson could have thought, and the sentences had the Emersonian pithiness. Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals When all is said and done, the clergy got a certain pithiness from that terrific habit they had of going back every little while and pinning down their thought with a text. Public Speaking The pithiness of your manner does not afford me much encouragement yet I will not be diverted from my purpose, even by that. Hardscrabble; or, the fall of Chicago. a tale of Indian warfare They have a proverb, the pithiness of which is much lost in this paraphrase, "No happiness without order, no order without authority, no authority without unity." The Coming Race The very pithiness of it, so characteristic of the excellent but bigoted Omar, is enough to cast suspicion upon it. The Unseen World and Other Essays |
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