Word: pith
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Concision is highly prized in science. The premium on pith is enshrined in perhaps science's most important law, known as the law of parsimony, or Ockham's razor. It states, in essence, that when confronted with two or more explanations for a phenomenon, we assume that the more compact, less complicated, simpler one must be correct...
...made him take it back. But even now Kemp fits the theme: He's nice. Though Dole's nice too this week, and more concise. (Dole's daughter Robin told the crowd he's pleasant. He was a dandy dad, though none too present.) And Dole himself, with admirable pith, Said bigots could just leave the hall forthwith. This showed the Houston spirit was no more: There was no sudden scramble for the door...
...published in Britain and due out in the U.S. later this year, Bennett describes himself as "one who can scarcely remove his tie without having a police cordon thrown around the building." His sly art is an anti-striptease: he reveals only edges and crinkles of himself in the pith of an essay or dramatic monologue. "Bennett has become a major figure in the English landscape despite versatility and his steadfast wish to remain hidden," writes critic David Thomson in A Biographical Dictionary of Film. "He may be Britain's best and most stubborn surviving miniaturist...
These types of games have all the figurative mud and slime of Verdun or Passchendacle, and two types of fans hate them to the pith of their marrow--the neutrals and the purists. Very often, those groups are one in the same, which is just a coincidence...
...calls the "politico-journalistic elite" enjoy. I'll admit the possibility that I'm not asking the right questions of my interviews or understanding the full meaning of their replies. But seasoned reporters tell me that wading through ten minutes of "squishy" chaff to get a few sentences of pith isn't an unusual experience here...