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aphorist

NOUN
  1. someone who formulates aphorisms or who repeats aphorisms

How To Use aphorist In A Sentence

  • Mesell Malkontent of Faux News, the gripping cutting edge metaphorist megamedia propaganda outlet, a non-contributor of the pasty pedantry and PIG’s Pundits in General, spouts ‘demon duck du jour’, and claims, somehow, she knows, somehow, that Hezbollah is just a beauty pagent… Think Progress » Malkin: Outrage About Qana ‘Manufactured,’ ‘If It’s Not Qana, It’s Something Else…It’s Beauty Pageants’
  • Bacon aside, the condensed force and poignant brevity of whose aphoristic wisdom has no parallel in English, there is no other prosaist who possesses anything like Milton's command over the resources of our language. Milton
  • Ms. Hirliman fired off brief, aphoristic replies and taped them back up for all to see. Georgelle hirliman | writer in the window « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground
  • It is not ‘easy,’ not filled with narratives that lend themselves to paraphrase nor poems that distill into nice, aphoristic truisms.
  • In truth, a great many of the aphorists sound as though they sweated too hard to come up with their punchlines.
  • If she claims, with what sounds like commingled wonder and rage, "I have never been anywhere but sick," quickly she modifies her statement by adding, aphoristically: The Parables of Flannery O'Connor
  • I toyed with being an aphorist, but the mode can get a bit tiresome. Excerpt from De Imitatio Calembouri
  • I fancy mankind may come, in time, to write all aphoristically, except in narrative; grow weary of preparation, and connection, and illustration, and all those arts by which a big book is made. Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
  • This is a fair example of the author's fast-paced and aphoristic style, combining micro-details with a macro sweep. Times, Sunday Times
  • He did not write aphoristically, but his writing combined brilliant clarity with some of the properties of aphorism: vivid wit, terse enigmatic utterance, decoding left to the reader.
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