He wrote that the film was a 'well-crafted', 'well-acted' film with pithy and witty dialogues. He also wrote plays and was known for his humorous and pithy bon mots. Martin's prose is concise but pithy, begging to be devoured over and over again. Corey Barksdale has produced a book of paintings with specific proverbs and pithy quotations. Branches are stout, pithy, and blunt; roots are fibrous. In Early Modern English, quotation marks were used to denote pithy comments. He is employed by an artist who painted "pithy sayings" all across the city. They purvey a pithy folk wisdom that triumphs over all trials and tribulations. It contains many similar cartoons, poems and pithy comments from wounded soldiers. Each gift was accompanied by pithy, often abusive, remarks on Dreyfus and the Dreyfusards. Bernsten said this was the reason the characters' pithy one-liner jokes succeeded. His highly original, pithy, and path-breaking books, monographs, and articles flowed forth with seeming effortlessness. Vachanas were pithy poems on that period's social, religious and economic conditions. Holmes was known for his pithy, short, and frequently quoted opinions. Berardinelli called the leprechaun's one-liners "more idiotic than pithy".