The smallest things are capable of rendering great power. A staccato note in a music score. The jab in boxing. A simple “yes” or “no.” And, in the world of cinema, the micro short film. On ...

A brief history of pithiness. Under the Microscope/Prof William Reville: This week, as a break from science, I offer you a selection of famous quotations. Thu Sept 27 2007 - 01:00.

In a graphic-intensive, visual medium like video games, it's an art in itself to craft a story out of small threads and a smattering of copy on a screen. The Weather Factory makes it look easy ...

Publishers prefer pithiness. Hillel Italie THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. As he prepared a biography of Edgar Allan Poe, ...

Dear Editor, To the late great Evan Drayton I owe the rule, “adjectives count as words.” He used it in memory of the Daily Chronicle in late colonial ...

If you recognise its limitations, the self-enforcing pithiness required by the microblog's maximum of 140 characters can be a boon in the world of wine.

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THE PITHINESS and political nous of the campaign for cystic fibrosis sufferers has done more than highlight their awful plight… THE PITHINESS and political nous of the campaign for cystic ...