How To Use Aphorist In A Sentence
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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
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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
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He, or possibly she, has marked many passages in the play, several of them apparently aphoristic in quality.
The Times Literary Supplement
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It is not ‘easy,’ not filled with narratives that lend themselves to paraphrase nor poems that distill into nice, aphoristic truisms.
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In truth, a great many of the aphorists sound as though they sweated too hard to come up with their punchlines.
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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
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I toyed with being an aphorist, but the mode can get a bit tiresome.
Excerpt from De Imitatio Calembouri
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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
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This is a fair example of the author's fast-paced and aphoristic style, combining micro-details with a macro sweep.
Times, Sunday Times
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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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His comments are aphoristic or oracular, but often infused with wit.
Times, Sunday Times
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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
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He was always word-building, a metaphorist, lavish with singing adjectives; but often he built in confusion because it was difficult to describe something beautiful in a new yet simple way.
The Ragged Edge
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The aphoristic last lines are a little lesson on humility.
Poem of the week: What mystery pervades a well! by Emily Dickinson
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Chapter 1 reflected aphoristically on the textual condition of medieval literatures: their status in the manuscript and the technologies of reproduction that made them so enigmatic to modern scholars.
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A classic example of enlargement is Nietzsche's encounter with Zarathustra, which made of the critic and aphorist a tragic poet and prophet. Another example is St.
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Beyond all this there is the paradoxical character of her work itself - which is visually clear yet always mysterious - and also her reflections on photography and life, which were aphoristic, evocative and often rather oracular.
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Is aphoristic writing more 'quotable' than standard prose?
The Times Literary Supplement
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It is not ‘easy,’ not filled with narratives that lend themselves to paraphrase nor poems that distill into nice, aphoristic truisms.
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Albert Einstein had a more aphoristic way of stating this principle when talking about scientific hypotheses.
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But, for the purveyors of aphoristic truisms, perhaps confusing.
Times, Sunday Times
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He is explaining -- sometimes elliptically, aphoristically, through metaphors, jokes and old folk wisdom -- why "the economic crisis has barely begun," why indeed we seem to have entered the Age of the Black Swan.
Christopher Lydon: Nassim Nicholas Taleb: The "Fragility" Crisis is Just Begun
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Devotees of popular history will have met some of these stories in the work of Liza Picard, Witold Rybczynski, Daniel Boorstin and others, but it's hard to imagine a better synthesizer than Bryson, or a pithier aphorist.
Book review: 'At Home' by Bill Bryson
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He was certainly a master of the aphoristic aside.
Times, Sunday Times
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And I suspect Yogi would be impressed for being considered in the same league, aphoristically speaking.
Dustbury.com » Prediction is hard, especially about the future
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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
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Each in addition is accompanied by a short, aphoristic gloss below.
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The persistent use of brachylogy, especially in the omission of principal verbs, justifies Photius' label 'aphoristic'.
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The language is austere and aphoristic.
Times, Sunday Times
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That's the difference between a comic-strip artist and an "aphorist.
Comic-Strip Tease
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He was at best merely an aphorist, and at worst an opportunist who used selective silence as a means of self-promotion.
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He believed that in a world where visual language has overpowered the written word, narrative non-fiction could satisfy the need for reflective engagement more than any kind of aphoristic expression.
The Hindu - Front Page
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Deb recalls it aphoristically: In order to take a job where I might have to change my name and accent and become a Western person, I first had to erase most traces of the West from my existing self.
The Beautiful and the Damned: Life in the New India by Siddhartha Deb – review
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His aphoristic, rhetorical style, lends itself to statements that sound arresting but often mean very little.
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Book critic Carlin Romano, who is also critic-at-large for the Chronicle of Higher Education (in which role he was a finalist last year for a Pulitzer in criticism), takes a look at that dubious aphorist, E.M. Cioran.
An Inquirer trifecta ...
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Intriguing, but some of it borders on the tritely aphoristic.
August « 2009 « Squares of Wheat
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As W.J.T. Mitchell once aphoristically put it, ‘When the tigers break into the temple and profane the altar too regularly, their appearance rapidly becomes part of the sacred ritual.’
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Hi Raman, I had just reacted to your aforesaid sentence as I thought that saying something like this aphoristically should ideally be backed by sound arguments.
What they wanted us to do
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Not to trivialize his work, but one of the reasons I believe his work is so popular is the aphoristic style of his writing.
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Devotees of popular history will have met some of these stories in the work of Liza Picard, Witold Rybczynski, Daniel Boorstin and others, but it's hard to imagine a better synthesizer than Bryson, or a pithier aphorist.
Book review: 'At Home' by Bill Bryson
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Here as elsewhere, Pennac's aphoristic style puts the ooh-la-la in Gallic shrug:
Giving Up
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As an aphorist, Cullen is hard to beat and his supple and punning use of text puts the lie to the whole unthinking bad boy concept.
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Poetry can suddenly, almost aphoristically, define what the mood of the time is.
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The book is a collection of short, sometimes near-aphoristic chapters organized thematically more often than through an argumentative progression.
The Times Literary Supplement
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As usual, Easy isn't much of a detective - his inquiries lead to a chain of suspicious characters who finger one another - but he could hardly be improved as a philosopher and aphorist.
Little Scarlet: Summary and book reviews of Little Scarlet by Walter Mosley.
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A classic example of enlargement is Nietzsche's encounter with Zarathustra, which made of the critic and aphorist a tragic poet and prophet. Another example is St.
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The fragments of concrete poetry that make up the bulk of Free Cell honor the rapid-fire plausibility of waking thought, which is to say the collection's often self-contained stanzas are by turns intimate, aphoristic, and incoherent -- but never less than truthful.
Seth Abramson: December 2011 Contemporary Poetry Reviews
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However, interspersed throughout his reminiscences are observations about his present preoccupations, micro-essays on music, art, and literature, as well as aphoristic sentences.
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White does not hesitate to make clear where his sympathies lie, often in provocative, aphoristic sentences.
The Times Literary Supplement
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At its best, Ballard's work is a devastating and original contribution to architectural thought, articulating the often sinister impacts of our built environment with a sense of humor, and an aphoristic memorability, that is all too lacking in contemporary fiction and architectural criticism alike.
Resilience Science
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Both are brief and although the criticisms of Hegel are clearly intelligible, the statements constituting the “new philosophy” are often rhetorical and aphoristic, which is one of the reasons they are often judged to be unsatisfactory as philosophy.
Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach
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Among the elite of aphorists are Samuel Johnson, Oscar Wilde, and Gore Vidal.
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‘In a field like entertainment,’ he says aphoristically, ‘appearance - and a subset of appearance is race - keeps coming up.’
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Like so many aphoristic cliches, it collapses after a moment's scrutiny.
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Instead, I would just need to make some aphoristically cute atmospheric point.
Neil McCarthy: Sounds of Silence
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We can do no better than conclude with the observation of the great aphorist Samuel Johnson:
:Acquired Taste
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A classic example of enlargement is Nietzsche's encounter with Zarathustra, which made of the critic and aphorist a tragic poet and prophet. Another example is St.
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The source texts are then reformed into single aphoristic lines, couplets, quatrains, and whole poems.
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The source texts are then reformed into single aphoristic lines, couplets, quatrains, and whole poems.
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For such as me, Kierkegaard the humorist - or novelist, or aphorist, or ironist - possesses an unquestioned eminence, whereas Kierkegaard the philosopher - or theologian, or pietist, or polemicist - cuts a far more equivocal figure.
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The entire argument of the Anti-Adiaphorists was by him reduced to the following principle or axiom: "_Nihil est adiaphoron in casu confessionis et scandali.
Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church
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She had been a child apart from her earliest years, a whimsical, sometimes meltingly reflective aphorist.
Mark Twain
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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’
