How To Use Aphoristic 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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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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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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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 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 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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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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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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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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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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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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His comments are aphoristic or oracular, but often infused with wit.
Times, Sunday Times
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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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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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His aphoristic, rhetorical style, lends itself to statements that sound arresting but often mean very little.
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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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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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Here as elsewhere, Pennac's aphoristic style puts the ooh-la-la in Gallic shrug:
Giving Up
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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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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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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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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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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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‘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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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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Is aphoristic writing more 'quotable' than standard prose?
The Times Literary Supplement
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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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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.
