Pithy

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–adjective

1. brief, forceful, and meaningful in expression; full of vigor, substance, or meaning; terse; forcible: a pithy observation. 

2. of, like, 

or 

abounding in pith. (骨髓)





　

That the play must please is the most [obvious] truism in show business. But what about those aggressive modern works designed to affront the audience? The surrealist chestnut, Un Chien Andalou, was probably the first movie so conceived; 



it remains one of the successful because its 16 minutes of baffling insult are pithy, inventive, and comic. Austrian filmmaker Michael Haneke's Funny Games—a scene for scene, if not word for word, remake of the director's 1997 German-language film, also called Funny Games—is none of these.



　

When a socially awkward small-town bachelor introduces an anatomically correct silicone doll as his girlfriend, the local community ultimately responds with surprising compassion in "Lars and the Real Girl." 



Helmer Craig Gillespie's sweetly off-kilter film plays like a Coen brothers riff on Garrison Keillor's "Lake Woebegone" tales, defying its lurid premise with a gentle comic drama grounded in reality. 



Although well-acted by a name cast, the offbeat subject matter and idiosyncratic tone make it arthouse material. Skedded for a limited release Stateside, it should have a longer life in ancillary, and could serve as a niche item for offshore distribs.



Tenderly depicting his characters' human foibles with low-key visual humor, Gillespie never condescends or goes for an easy joke. Oliver's pithy dialogue also avoids obvious yucks.





detriment 

falling off from an [original] condition 

Overeating is a detriment to [health]. 

So [at] what point do the efforts of a costumed [vigilante] [cease to] have an impact on the society he vows to protect - 

and when does his mere presence present a [detriment] to them when it's all said and done?

succinct   

[originally] composed and is expressed in as few words as possible

concise

unnecessary verbiage have been [eliminated]

terse

brevity with polish or brusqueness

a terse, almost [aphoristic], style.

a terse reply that was almost [rude]. 

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