| It will see Russia as a country set apart from the rest of Europe by history and geography, but it will look to a Russian monarch, Catherine the Great, for the pithiest summary of Europe's place in the world. |
| Heightened scrutiny raises the bar for justifying differential treatment but does little to curtail judges from jumping over it. Antonin Scalia has the pithiest, and most realistic, take. |
| This poem is one of the pithiest condemnations of the English enclosure movement, the process of fencing off common land and turning it into private property. |
| Perhaps it was apt that the pithiest election-night verdict was delivered by a Danish politician, Helle Thorning-Schmidt, leader of that country's Social Democratic party. |
