aphoristic

How To Use aphoristic 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
• The aphoristic last lines are a little lesson on humility. Poem of the week: What mystery pervades a well! by Emily Dickinson
• 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
• 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
• 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 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.
• This is a fair example of the author's fast-paced and aphoristic style, combining micro-details with a macro sweep. Times, Sunday Times
• 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
• 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
• It is not ‘easy,’ not filled with narratives that lend themselves to paraphrase nor poems that distill into nice, aphoristic truisms.