My job was just to write pithy summaries of games, and perhaps some insightful summaries of why someone won.

There was a flurry of scribbling when he offered a pithy summary of the course, which would cover "the first swing of the pendulum from faith to reason."

Fitness and gloom, a pithy summary of that decade-add recession, and you've got a good working definition of the first decade of this century, as well.

In his speech, Mr. Barr said that Mr. Allen's comments were a "pithy summary of contemporary moral philosophy."

Later she followed up with a pithy summary: "You do not need to be mean to be tough."

To take a phrase from this story, in what could be a pithy summary of his modern-day romanticism, it contains both "the pain and sweetness of life."

Authors will write pithy, exciting summaries of ideas and link them to the lengthy, boring explanations.

He has great narrative gifts, and his brief character sketches draw readers in while pithy summaries of each expedition carry us on breathlessly from one ice hummock to the next.

Which turns out to be a pithy summary of Ms. Ensler's intentions here: she is asking that those watching her play, especially women, find themselves in these victims of war.