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  • adverb In a punchy manner.

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  • Those are competent, punchily written and laudably clear, though the lack of case studies—perhaps a casualty of the book's breadth—means this can be a dry read.

    There's More to MBAs Than Legal Fraud Neil McIntosh 2011

  • I almost swooned with memories of my own long-lost Alternative Fiction & Poetry, and remembered my then-girlfriend, now-wife and I sitting at a little table at something I remember being called Swampfest but that might not be it in Madison Wisconsin, punchily joking that we were invisible, and selling three magazines.

    13 « October « 2009 « Fantasy Author's Handbook 2009

  • I almost swooned with memories of my own long-lost Alternative Fiction & Poetry, and remembered my then-girlfriend, now-wife and I sitting at a little table at something I remember being called Swampfest but that might not be it in Madison Wisconsin, punchily joking that we were invisible, and selling three magazines.

    October « 2009 « Fantasy Author's Handbook 2009

  • I almost swooned with memories of my own long-lost Alternative Fiction & Poetry, and remembered my then-girlfriend, now-wife and I sitting at a little table at something I remember being called Swampfest but that might not be it in Madison Wisconsin, punchily joking that we were invisible, and selling three magazines.

    WORDSTOCK 2009 « Fantasy Author's Handbook 2009

  • Much appreciated, and actually quite punchily to the point.

    for your perusal: 2008

  • The Question Time audience claps for anything that's motherhood and apple-pie as long as it's delivered punchily.

    Why Jenny Tonge Should be Abolished 2006

  • Alfie punchily expresses the frustration a lot of us feel about Scotland's privileged fiscal position - last time I checked the numbers, they were getting a fiscal transfer from us equivalent to 10% of their income, much bigger than those famous EU transfers.

    Should England Have its Own Parliament? 2006

  • While some find his menswear references too predictably, well, masculine - there were wide-brimmed trilbies plus punchily coloured man-jackets and crisp, white shirts.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

  • At the end of such vividly drawn, punchily told episodes, it's hard not to feel like you've been on a journey with the man, even though the man has nothing to do with it.

    chicagotribune.com - News 2011

  • At the end of such vividly drawn, punchily told episodes, it's hard not to feel like you've been on a journey with the man, even though the man has nothing to do with it.

    chicagotribune.com - News 2011

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