How To Use aphorist In A Sentence
- 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
- He was quite as able to be terse and memorable when in conversation and, like Oscar Wilde (who was, like him, disconcertingly vast when seen at close quarters), seems seldom to have been off duty when it came to the epigrammatic and aphoristic. Demons and Dictionaries
- He, or possibly she, has marked many passages in the play, several of them apparently aphoristic in quality. The Times Literary Supplement
- 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.
