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I follow her pithy commentary on Twitter.pithy = concise (said in few words), but full of meaning
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Ken Kesey provided one of her favorite pithy quotes: "You can count the seeds in the apple, but you can't count the apples in the seed."pithy = concise
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If the typewriter keys were clattering away, she was at work on one of her novels, poems, plays, short stories, or her illustrated collection of pithy sayings—one was "Life is a bowl of cherries, with a few nuts thrown in"—which she'd titled "R. M. Walls's Philosophy of Life." (source)pithy = concise (said in few words), but full of meaning
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"Clarke, define resplendent." "I think it's shining, sir." "Pithy, Clarke, but adequate." (source)Pithy = concise (said in few words)
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... at my typewriter writing pithy things I'll never have the guts to say out loud. (source)pithy = concise and full of meaning
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My mother, whose kitchen is decorated with pithy signs that, loosely translated, all say, in one form or another, "The Cook Is Out," made supper every night. (source)pithy = concise (said in few words), but full of meaning
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Solomon would have had a few pithy words for the occasion. (source)pithy = concise (said in few words), but full of meaning
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Since then we have learned better than to be shy about such trifling immodesties. ... The soldier is on friendlier terms than other men with his stomach and intestines. Three-quarters of his vocabulary is derived from these regions, and they give an intimate flavour to expressions of his greatest joy as well as of his deepest indignation. It is impossible to express oneself in any other way so clearly and pithily. (source)pithily = concise, but full of meaning
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"You should just think of Mrs. Allan and what would be nicest and most agreeable to her," said Marilla, hitting for once in her life on a very sound and pithy piece of advice. (source)pithy = concise (said in few words), but full of meaning
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"Near here, and soon," I replied, echoing what Captain Ono had pithily said to me.† (source)pithily = in concise (said in few words) manner that is full of meaning
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Which he did, urging her on in pithy phrases. (source)pithy = concise (said in few words), but full of meaning
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For I am a plodding kind of fellow, Copperfield, and had learnt the way of doing such things pithily.† (source)pithily = in concise (said in few words) manner that is full of meaning
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Years, and those experiences which befall certain shrewder men subordinated life-long to the will of superiors, all this had developed in the Dansker the pithy guarded cynicism that was his leading characteristic. (source)pithy = concise (said in few words), but full of meaning
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"Fresh water," resumed Cap pithily; "you are not to expect too much of the young man, Mabel.† (source)pithily = in concise (said in few words) manner that is full of meaning
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His idea of French was verb forms and Phaedra, with a reliance on pithy maxims from noted authors.† (source)pithy = concise (said in few words), but full of meaning
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Dr. Krokowski showed up, smiling pithily and showing his yellow teeth under his beard.† (source)pithily = in concise (said in few words) manner that is full of meaning
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