His particular gift is to encapsulate complex historical and biographical events pithily and in an illuminating context.

ECONOMIST: Europe 1900-14

That approach didn't work for my narrative, the twin themes of which Ruthie's pilgrimage through cancer and my return home in its aftermath proved too complex to be summed up punchily or pithily.

WSJ: Rod Dreher on the Importance of Titles | Word Craft

Though the line was widely criticized by many as gobbledygook, those who stopped to think realized he had very pithily summarized entire books by Nicholas Nassim Taleb about uncertainty and Black Swans.

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