pithiness

Or a brief yammer about how SMU just beat Houston, 77-63, how former Oklahoma quarterback Tanner Mordecai threw nine touchdown passes, and how the Associated Press in Dallas achieved pithiness with this second paragraph: “As a point of reference, Houston’s men’s basketball team beat SMU’s 75-61 on Feb. 27.”

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.

The second places all the pithiness and irony in the index entries themselves.

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.”

Pithiness was part of her work’s appeal.