pithy 的定义
pith·i·er, pith·i·est.
- brief, forceful, and meaningful in expression; full of vigor, substance, or meaning; terse; forcible: a pithy observation.
- of, like, or abounding in pith.
pithy 近义词
brief, to the point
更多pithy例句
- His are usually pithy and want to embarrass you into giving.
- Other times, she has crystallized concerns with a pithy tweet.
- From shrinking willies to volcanic eruptions, disappearing hazelnut coffees to pithy brews, we celebrate Earth Day by reflecting on the all-too-human costs of climate change.
- I was constantly pulling out pithy facts about how we’re not implementing solutions on the necessary scale.
- I had the pleasure of hearing one—a short, pithy gem called “The Italian System”—at a reading in Trastevere last month.
- Each work is a pithy marvel that captures the languorous excitement (and sometimes the radiant gloom) of a summer day to remember.
- Mandery knows when to be pithy and when to go long, like in passages about the subtleties of memoranda.
- She was always alert to what was going on, and her comments were pithy and to the point.
- He defines Dynamic Inaction with one pithy aphorism: “When in doubt, mumble; when in trouble, delegate; when in charge, ponder.”
- The wicked man's epitaph, as a rule, may be generally appropriately written in the pithy words "He was, and is not."
- He is in speech eloquent and pithy; but which is chiefest, he is in religion, as religious in life as he is sincere in profession.
- The familiar voice that gave utterance to this pithy affirmation proceeded from the doorway leading into the reception hall.
- As pithy an inscription appears on the bell of S. Ives, which is rung early in the morning.
- Aphorism, af′or-izm, n. a concise statement of a principle in any science: a brief, pithy saying: an adage.