pithiness

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.

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.”

The replies to that tweet are Twitter at its finest pithiness.

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.

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.