Pithily

The name pithily sums it up: the organization will work to make politicians accountable to their constituents rather than the corporate interests so firmly entrenched in Washington. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Here, rather more pithily, is an extract from the introduction to that same Hamas charter: "Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it" (The Martyr, Imam Hassan al-Banna, of blessed memory). " ❋ Not A Sheep (2009)

In a phrase that pithily captured the problems of her relationship with Prince Charles she said: ‘There were three of us in this marriage so it was a bit crowded.’ ❋ ANDREW MORTON (1992)

My wife pithily suggested that I might try to do the same! ❋ Unknown (2010)

(I'm reading the verb “like” here to mean “say something of nearly the same meaning and emotional tenor, but probably not expressed quite so pithily, or at least think of saying it within a few minutes afterwards.”) ❋ Unknown (2009)

This massive project ($28 million Canadian) is being done in a somewhat old-fashioned modernistic style and on a liturgical plan that completely ignores the return to tradition so pithily encapsulated in the writings of Pope Benedict and made manifest in recent building projects too numerous to mention. ❋ Unknown (2009)

And it would be our honor to relate a few pithily amusing jibes about 2012's primary primary. ❋ Will Durst (2012)

Lyndon B. Johnson put it quite pithily to the leader of the Greek opposition, ‘F*ck your constitution.’ ❋ Unknown (2010)

Percy's remark has long resonated with me because he so pithily nails an essential issue: reality is too big, mysterious, strange, and surprising for a merely materialistic explanation. ❋ Unknown (2009)

As British Foreign Minister William Hague pithily put it, the euro is a burning building with no exits. ❋ Alen Mattich (2011)

Mr. Thiel delivers his views with an extraordinary, almost physical effort to put his thoughts in order and phrase them pithily. ❋ Holman W. Jenkins Jr. (2010)

As one pundit pithily remarked, "Everyone's waiting to see if this is a movement or just a moment." ❋ Deepak Chopra (2011)

The point I meant to make in that clause, and could have made more precisely (albeit less pithily), was that Obama had not accomplished much prior to running for president. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The legendary populist politician Huey Long is reputed to have said, prophetically, “When fascism comes to America, it will come wrapped in the American flag.” Or, as CNN quoted someone as asking pithily if pathetically on Twitter, “If Osama bin Laden is dead, can we please have our rights back? ❋ Ethan Casey (2011)

As the late Samuel Johnson put it quite pithily, how strange that we should hear such loud cries for liberty coming from the drivers of black men. ❋ Unknown (2010)