How To Use Epigram In A Sentence

The prose is of a rare stateliness and intelligence, studded with clever, sometimes almost epigrammatic mots.
His fragments are in a pointed, epigrammatic style, probably due to sophistic influence.
Their quotes and epigrams take up a sometimes shocking amount of space in columns and essays.
Perhaps there was truth in Croce's epigram that `all history is contemporary history". SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
His compendious book, then, ranges from dry speculation on geology to exquisite description of flora, spangled with remarkably apt epigrams.

Linguix Browser extension

Fix your writing
on millions of websites

Get Started
For Free Watch how it works

Some of these examples are maxims, precepts, quips, proverbs and epigrams.
_ What you call epigram gives life and spirit to grave works, and seems principally wanted to relieve a long poem. Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection
He consulted me upon it, who am a little of an epigrammatist myself, you know. The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D.
The pieces were expertly crafted and shaped with epigrammatic concision (none longer than five minutes). Times, Sunday Times
Undue brevity degenerates into mere epigrammatism. Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American
In the epigrammatical words of its organisers, the scheme is seeking 'little ideas with big impact'. Times, Sunday Times
That, and the envy-inducing smartness of the writing, so polished and sharp, so epigrammatic. Times, Sunday Times
Jobs urged in one of his trademark epigrams, and they raised a skull and crossbones over Bandley.
I suppose that the problem could be epigrammatically put in terms of the old joke: 'If we are put on earth to be good to other people, what are the other people put on earth for?' Archbishop's lecture celebrating 60th Anniversary of the William Temple Foundation
She will say things worthy of a French epigrammatist, and act like a robin in a greenhouse. A Pair of Blue Eyes
Heretofore Biblical writers have given to us battles, laws, histories, songs; now we have in Solomon's writings a new style in short, epigrammatic sentences. The Woman's Bible
Tito sang of a rose which Lucretia had sent him, but his son excelled him in an epigram on the _Rose of Lucretia_, which could hardly have been the same one his father had received. [ Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day
AMMIANUS is the author of twenty-nine epigrams in the Anthology, all irrisory. Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology
The Song Book solos are little musical epigrams, which happen to survey popular Twenties piano styles from an often-ironic distance.
On SF seems to me to be a better book than I remember The Dreams Our Stuff is Made Of being I don't have a copy at hand, because Disch's strengths are more those of an epigrammatist than a systematizer, and the short reviews that fill most of this book are a good medium for his talents. Archive 2006-05-01
Perhaps there was truth in Croce's epigram that `all history is contemporary history". SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
Yet is there no competent Judge that findeth them wanting in those Ancient ones, and that doth not much more admire that smoothly equall neatnesse, continued sweetnesse, and flourishing comelinesse of Catullus his Epigrams, than all the sharpe quips and witty girds wherewith Martiall doth whet and embellish the conclusions of his. Of Bookes.
Humanism was gradually replaced by a new international literary culture - ‘classicism’ - that recirculated and recycled an encyclopedic repertory of classical texts, mythologies, epigrams, and commonplaces.
Shakespeare's last two sonnets are variations on an anacreontic epigram from The Greek Anthology.
Stoppard uses a dazzling range of literary and theatrical effects, from Wildean epigram to a scene written entirely in limericks, from a suggestion of strip-tease to a lecture on Marxist theory.
In length he prefers the epigrammatic and in form he is an adept formalist, acknowledging his antecedents in the farmer-poets of the past, Frost, Horace and Theognis.
Politian had used the freedom of a friend, and pleasantly, in the form of a Latin epigram, corrected the mistake of Scala in making the _culex_ (an insect too well-known on the banks of the Arno) of the inferior or feminine gender. Romola
I know nothing which more shows the essential and inherent perfection of simplicity of thought, above that which I call the Gothic manner in writing, than this, that the first pleases all kinds of palates, and the latter only such as have formed to themselves a wrong artificial taste upon little fanciful authors and writers of epigram. Essays and Tales
He would end his lecture with a summarizing epigram.
The temptation to prove or disprove something with an aphorism or epigram secures instant juvenile glee, but nisus of impelling wider perspective flee. Archive 2009-03-01
His writing was ‘carefully phrased with the lapidary (his own description of his style) care one would give to a Latin epigram.’
Only a heightened style of performance can make sense of such iconoclasm, but here, especially in the first half, Wrentmore takes it at such a languid pace that the epigrammatic power of Orton's language is utterly drained away.
If I had Bill Bryson's wit and epigrammatic suavity and his ability to make each datum ripple seamlessly into the next. Book review: 'At Home' by Bill Bryson
Can be seen everywhere on campus celebrity of Painting, epigram, motto, displayed a rich cultural connotations.
My first attempt, a chapbook of satiric epigrams, led me to examine the social facts.
One of Oscar Wilde's most frequently quoted epigrams is "I can resist everything except temptation".
Despite the pain, and his reliance on liquid morphine to control it, his style is almost epigrammatic and always to the point.
The only author the two seem to share in common is Oscar Wilde, hurling his various art-for-art's-sake epigrams at each other like barbs.
[2] A slang epigram puts it better: The time, the place, and the girl. The Foundations of Personality
It is the most witty and epigrammatic of all Taylor's works.
The technique of the epigram, which he defined as ‘a short poem, complete in itself, either comic or. serious,’ is to get the ‘most meaning you can into the smallest amount of space.’
Even on his very first visit to New York, in 1932, and rather like Oscar Wilde before him, Dali captivated journalists and the general public with examples of an outrageous, epigrammatic wit.
English poet and diplomat known for his epigrams and satirical verse.
As the poetry of Chaucer corresponds, in its wealth and intimacy of decoration, to the illuminations and tapestries of the middle ages, so the epigrams given under this section constantly recall the sculptured reliefs and the engraved gems of Greek art. Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology
the peculiarly sardonic and sententious style in which Don Luis composed his epigrams
Until the 20th century, it simply did not occur to rulers that they could second every aspect of national life to the pursuit of their policies of which, as Clausewitz epigrammatically observed, war is merely a continuation.
He was called the epigrammatist, but the greater part of his jests seem to have little point. History of English Humour, Vol. 1 (of 2) With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour
The epigram to The Second Sex is: half accomplices, half victims like every one else.
It is a book of hard-won wisdom and stark pleasure in the form of 500 lyrical aphorisms and epigrams.
His epigrammatic paragraphs turn the photographs they puzzle over into allegories and metaphors.
Page 305, Volume 2 and in a letter of 1547 expressed epigrammatically: Dictionary of the History of Ideas
The many short chapters are often punctuated with pregnant little epigrams that underline the plot.
One of Oscar Wilde's most frequently quoted epigrams is "I can resist everything except temptation".
To see the name of John Milton, the great religious and political polemicist, attached to such a bawdy epigram, is extremely surprising to say the least. John Lundberg: Scholar Unearths a Dirty Milton Poem
His mouth was open, as though he were about to declaim a poem, or speak an epigram.
This was one of the reasons that people spent more time making up pithy aphorisms and witty epigrams.
Nasidius by a prester which caused his form to swell to an unrecognisable size, and so on through the list of serpents, each episode closing with a brilliant epigram which clenches the effect. The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius
He goes on to extol especially the epigrammatic power of the elegiac distich by translating numerous specimens from the elegiac writings of Goethe and Schiller.
O. Henry came very near to her, but did he not melodramatize her a little, sometimes cheapen her by his epigrammatic appraisal, fit her too neatly into his plot? Pipefuls
Opposite, another young lawyer, Eugene Fort, was saying preternaturally bright things to Tiny, who lifted her sweet orbs at intervals and remarked: "How _dreadfully_ clever you are, Mr. Fort; I am _so_ afraid of you!" or "How _sweet_ of you to think I am worth all those _real_ epigrams! The Californians
Bonaparte, or something that would form a contrast, and bring the reader with increased delight to the playfulness and epigrammatism of the general style! Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 3
He cites as evidence the earliest use of the term in a literary context, from one of Martial's epigrams (here in the translation by Ben Jonson).
This epigrammatic style is fun, but if repeated one becomes aware that it points as much towards the author's cleverness as the subject in hand.
And let's be honest here, he was an extremely limited writer and his persecution has probably secured for him a place in history which would have been unachievable from his exhausting epigrams alone.
George Bernard Shaw had some truth when he remarked epigrammatically that nobody knew whether Christianity would work because no generation had ever tried it. The Future of the Empire
_Underwoods_, _Epigrams_, &c. he is sometimes bold and strenuous, sometimes Magisterial, sometimes lepid and full enough of conceit, and sometimes a man as other men are. The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets (1687)
The work is rather too light, and bright, and sparkling; it wants shade; it wants to be stretched out here and there with a long chapter of sense, if it could be had; if not, of solemn specious nonsense, about something unconnected with the story; an essay on writing, a critique on Walter Scott, or the history of Buonaparte, or anything that would form a contrast, and bring the reader with increased delight to the playfulness and epigrammatism of the general style. Jane Austen's Letters To Her Sister Cassandra and Others
For him, the centrepieces of conversation were aphorisms, epigrams and paradoxes which seemed to trip effortlessly from his honeyed tongue.
Indeed, what makes him such an entertaining lyricist and interviewee is the way he manages to dress witheringly cynical comments and spitefully barbed put-downs in such verbal finery and succinct epigrammatic wit.
His style was concise, spontaneous, epigrammatic. The Times Literary Supplement
He worked in government service, but was expelled from St Petersburg in 1820 for writing revolutionary epigrams.
They are characterized by brevity, by a key-word, by epanaphora [i. e, repetition], and by their epigrammatic style ... Easton's Bible Dictionary
The forms of satirical discourse and epigram are introduced to convey his opinions more directly.
Yet one of her favoured modes of writing is the epigram, that celebration of inversion.
Akadie's profession included the offices of epigrammatist, poet, calligrapher, sage, arbiter of elegance, professional guest (hiring Akadie to grace a party was an act of conspicuous consumption), marriage broker, legal consultant, repository of local tradition, and source of scandalous gossip. Trullion: Alastor 2262
During the long and taxing journey up into the high mountain fastness where the Huntress’s people dwell, I came to view this less as an epigram and more as an axiom. Duet « A Fly in Amber
Younger, in distinction to Diodorus Zonas, is mentioned as a friend of his own by Strabo, and was a historian and melic poet besides being an epigrammatist. Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology
This was surely better than a talent for barbing epigrams, and she led a worthier life at Cirey than in that Paris which Voltaire described so bitterly. Voltaire
Horace's satire and Jonson's epigram have proven similarly resistant to efforts at critical appreciation.
The Latin epigram says, Mors mortis morti mortem nisi morte tu lisset, AEternae vitae janua clausa foret. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Such sketches are sprinkled throughout the memoirs, often interspersed with pithy, epigrammatic reflections on Brecht, Wittgenstein and Oscar Wilde and asides on subjects such as the film cliché or the comic jest.
His epigrams (most of which are contained in _The Scourge of Folly_, undated, like others of his books) are by no means despicable; the Welsh ancestors, whom he did not fail to commemorate, seem to have endowed him with some of that faculty for lampooning and "flyting" which distinguished the Celtic race. A History of Elizabethan Literature
His compendious book ranges from dry speculation on geology to exquisite description of flora, spangled with remarkably apt epigrams.
Underwoods, Epigrams, &c. he is sometimes bold and strenuous, sometimes Magisterial, sometimes lepid and full enough of conceit, and sometimes a man as other men are. The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets
His silence about the authorship of the more famous epigram thus amounts almost to a denial that Simonides wrote it.
Some of these examples are maxims, precepts, quips, proverbs and epigrams.
Ballades and epigrams seem to have been frequent immigrants here.
It is an old saying, [2161] A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword: and many men are as much galled with a calumny, a scurrilous and bitter jest, a libel, a pasquil, satire, apologue, epigram, stage-play or the like, as with any misfortune whatsoever. Anatomy of Melancholy
“It is, and it is not,” he answered, epigrammatically. The Mystery of a Hansom Cab
I wasn't expected a unified theory of everything, but what I got was a series of half-baked epigrams, muddled thinking and decontextualised attacks on every philosopher under the sun.
The resulting ambiguities have arguably frustrated readers for whom the contrasts and juxtapositions of the preceding epigrams offer a reassuring set of interpretive coordinates.
This is the deeper meaning behind the epigrammatic phrase of the novel and film--"Who is John Galt? Michael Shermer: Atlas Shrugged, But You Shouldn't
His style is so hilar-iously messy (sample Evans epigram: "Possession is 99 percent of ownership") that it's fun -- the voice of a self-taught, self-centered mogul who was never mogully enough to command absolute power. The Last Tycoon, Take Two
I do not regard Jonson's epigram precisely as a parody of Horace's satire - or at least not entirely as such.
But that it amounts to more than "shucks," despite the footman's epigram, is presently apparent when the staff-officer comes more slowly back, easing his panting horse. A War-Time Wooing A Story
He also takes over a number of themes from Hellenistic poetry, especially from Greek epigram.
It is a book of hard-won wisdom and stark pleasure in the form of 500 lyrical aphorisms and epigrams.
I would very fain have presented it unto thee pure and naked, without the ornament of a preface, or the rabblement and catalogue of the wonted sonnets, epigrams, poems, elegies, etc., which are wont to be put at the beginning of books. The Author’s Preface to the Reader
He was a master of the scintillating surface, the witty musical epigram, the surprising twist.
To put it epigrammatically, the totality of the modern state seems to require unconditional surrender as a necessary correlative of its total wars.
The shrewdness and sharpness of his proverbs and his forceful epigrams serve, in an exceptional degree, to make ethical ideas a popular possession.
It's a hermetic, actorly event—a humid exploration of William Faulkner 's epigram, The past is never dead. Bombshells and Boxers
Along the way the reader continually encounters hard nuggets of epigrammatic truth.
So, after weeks of intense preparation, I have come up with several epigrams so devastatingly clever in their sarcasm that my adversaries will be forced to admit defeat and submit to my will immediately.
The papyrus bears 112 short poems called epigrams.
All this is very slight, _merae nugae_; but even if the humour be not of the first water, it will compare well with the humour of epigrams of any age. Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal
The great age of English satire began with Dryden, who perfected the epigrammatic and antithetical use of the heroic couplet for this purpose.
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
It's tough to choose a single epitaph for a man who invoked so many epigrams and proverbs.
Stillborn epigrams, mechanistic wordplay, and numbing longueurs feel like hapless actors' improvisations.
I wasn't sure if he was speaking epigrammatically or flirtatiously. Wake Up, Sir!
And on that epigrammatic, but fundamentally flawed theory, I'll leave you.
Latin epigrammatist who left a large mass of work, gave a meaning to the word epigram from which it is only now beginning to recover. Latin Literature
The multitude of satirical verses, epigrams, slogans and cartoons displayed upon the statue's base earlier this year demonstrate that it is this subversive, anti-establishment tone which most characterises the Pasquino of today.
This haiku (a 17 syllable epigrammatic verse) by one of Japan's greatest poets seems at first glance to have little to it.
In a good poem, whether it be epic or dramatic, as also in sonnets, epigrams, and other pieces, both judgement and fancy are required: but the fancy must be more eminent; because they please for the extravagancy, but ought not to displease by indiscretion. Leviathan
a fountain crowned by a Bacchic Kantharos, and wrote on its epistyle a brilliant epigram, inviting the faithful to purify themselves bodily and spiritually, before presenting themselves to the apostle within. Pagan and Christian Rome
The worthy archbishop had announced his approach to the enemy he was about to attack by a cloud of the same kind of libels, satires, and epigrams, which he had always found so efficacious in prejudicing the people of Paris against any one whom he thought fit to hold forth to popular odium. Political Women (Vol. 1 of 2)
As we have come to expect and learned to treasure, he is not content merely with his sinewy, epigrammatic, pellucid prose, and does not rest only upon his gift of narrative, his unparalleled expository powers, and his eye for the telling detail.
Sophists are seen to entangle, entrap, and confuse their opponents, by means of strange or flowery metaphors, by unusual figures of speech, by epigrams and paradoxes, and in general by being clever and smart.
Emblem included a motto, called lemma, an image, and an epigram. ICONOGRAPHY
Remember the most fitting epigram on a hearty Sabbath dinner of cholent, first spoken by the brother of my grandfather's second wife: ‘That was delicious.’
No subject, it seems, was off limits to the enterprising epigrammatist, and the only binding obligation was to have the courage of one's concision. Poetry Pages - 98.06.10
Their ethereal, angular post-punk replication is competent but anonymous, and their lyrics are epigrammatic bordering on cryptic, serving as ideal, nondescript verbal placeholders.
This poor fellow was the jester, song-singer and epigrammatist of the madcap patriots who were associated under the title of "Sons of Geneva. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. July, 1878.
a contrast, and bring the reader with increased delight to the playfulness and epigrammatism of the general style. Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters A Family Record
He wrote book after book of poems of various lengths, one collection consisting of poems so brief that some are epigrams or puns.
Now, this joke almost textually reproduces a circumstance attending the birth of that Earl of Dudley of whom Rogers wrote the epigram which Byron thought "unsurpassable": -- The History of "Punch"
Atticus is a repository of cracker-barrel epigrams. What 'To Kill a Mockingbird' Isn't
It poses a series of rhetorical questions on how a poet may be recognized and ends in an epigrammatic fashion, revealing its answer succinctly at the end.
Scala, but rather to instruct him; said epigram containing a lively conceit about Venus, Cupid, and the _culex_, of a kind much tasted at that period, founded partly on the zoological fact that the gnat, like Romola
On the top of the mountain sat Apollo with Calliope at his feet, and on either side the remaining Muses, holding lutes or harps, and singing each of them some "posy" or epigram in praise of the queen, which was presented, after it had been sung, written in letters of gold. The Reign of Henry the Eighth, Volume 1 (of 3)
He was one of the most versatile of Roman poets, who wrote love poems, elegies, and satirical epigrams with equal success.
The Greek philosopher Heraclitus is famous for saying you cannot stand in the same river twice; La Rochefoucauld perfected this epigrammatic style in the 17th century in his Maximes.
Today an epigram is generally defined as any short poem with a witty ending.
When you came afterwards to think over one of those wonderful evenings when he had talked for hours, almost without interruption, you hardly found more than an epigram, a fugitive flash of critical insight, an apologue or pretty story charmingly told. Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions
She would certainly have sent some trapes of a Muse to press you, had she known what good epigrams you write. The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4
The rhetorical flourish of a Latin epigram also has served to indicate that the notion of proof is well understood, and commonly agreed. Proof
One of these jokes, a customary one, was that his wife was neither pretty nor young; one of the "blandishments," I suppose, was an epigram by Sir The Age of the Reformation
The Uruguayan writes in short, epigrammatic sentences and breaks up his book into many chapters, each running to not more than half-a-dozen paragraphs.
Ethiopia is the country of the future," Birtukan Midekssa would often say epigrammatically. Alemayehu G. Mariam: Ethiopian Groundhog Year 2010
It should be clear from these quotes that Davis is an effortless formalist, and he excels at the epigram, aubade, and sonnet, even successfully bringing off a sixteen-line ‘monorhyme.’
Combined with his epigrams, the carefully selected images become poor monuments, an aid to critical remembering.
With its epigrammatic incandescence, it echoes in the mind. Times, Sunday Times
It contains some lists of epigrams and poems from the ancient library and it was found with a mummy, like a mask on the mummy.
I had said good-bye to him that morning, lounging in a dressing-gown on the be-pillowed window couch and delivering himself of oracular and pessimistic epigrams. Chapter 4
I always made sure that it was filled with the finest comic doggerel, epigrams, and songs of a light-hearted nature.
‘I have had the honour, by a coincidence of which I am proud, to have made a remark, similar in effect, though not so epigrammatically expressed.’ Hard Times
Anthology; Book V., irrisory epigrams; Book VI. amatory epigrams; and Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology
It gently satirized wartime bureaucracy, in a dazzling interchange of epigrams and catch-phrases, many of which passed into the common currency of speech.
The shrewdness and sharpness of his proverbs and his forceful epigrams serve, in an exceptional degree, to make ethical ideas a popular possession.
The Talmud suggests this idea epigrammatically: “Jerusalem was only destroyed because judgments were given strictly upon Biblical Law and did not go beyond the requirements of the law”. How to Kill a Missionary
But it is an elegy with no tears, only a clear-headed acknowledgment that, in the novel's most famous epigrammatic nugget of wisdom, "If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change. A Lyric, Elegiac Lament for a Lost World
epigrammatic discourse or expression.
One of Oscar Wilde's most frequently quoted epigrams is "I can resist everything except temptation".
It should be clear from these quotes that Davis is an effortless formalist, and he excels at the epigram, aubade, and sonnet.
He has a quote from Kurt Vonnegut epigrammatically placed on his site.
Some are witty and epigrammatic, while others poignantly lament the writer's widowhood in unguardedly emotional terms. The Times Literary Supplement
Another structural principle groups the elegies and epigrams together.
One epigram speaks obscurely of the destruction of the idols of Alexandria by the Christian populace in the archiepiscopate of Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology
Many blogs feature in their heading a maxim, aphorism, saying, adage, axiom, saw, proverb, epigram or precept.
She was herself a humorist -- writing entertaining light verses -- and a vivacious talker 'uniting,' it was said, 'strong common sense with a lively imagination' and a crisp epigrammatic phrase .... Archive 2009-03-01
He is marvelous in a rare recording of the complete Op 11, giving emphasis to the epigrammatic qualities of these elegant works.
As the epigram to this article demonstrates, militaristic language dramatized the contest beyond mere political fortunes.
On the formal level, its massive length (at 196 lines, it is over four times as long as the second-largest poem in the collection) and mock-heroic narrative render questionable its presence within a volume of epigrams.
G. Sullogai epigrammaton Khristianikon eis te naous kai eikonas kai eis diaphora anathemata. Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology
As the epigrammatist Ashleigh Brilliant says, "Due to circumstances beyond our control, we are masters of our fates and captains of our souls. Martin Rossman, M.D.: Healthy Coping Tips For Distant Disaster Stress
He and his Oxford brother, living as they did in constant and free interchange of thought on questions of philosophy and literature and art; delighting, each of them, in the epigrammatic terseness which is the charm of the 'Pensees' of Pascal, and the 'Caractères' of La MacMillan & Co.'s General Catalogue of Works in the Departments of History, Biography, Travels, and Belles Lettres, December, 1869
What do you think Madame Morrible was saying when she ended that Quell with the epigram Animals should be seen and not heard? WICKED: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE WICKED WITCH OF THE WEST
English poet and diplomat known for his epigrams and satirical verse.
Dr. Johnson epigrammatized Spenser's indictment into Among My Books Second Series
Bacon, in his Essays, adopts an epigrammatic style.
Even at the age of 20, suave epigrammatic wit shows itself. Times, Sunday Times
A different view of art and literature, and one which adds considerably to our knowledge of the ancient feeling about them, is given by another class of pieces, the irrisory epigrams of the Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology
It contains hundreds of entries in the Haiku form currently enjoying a renaissance in hip literature circles as well as epigrams, concrete poems and other works similarly concise in their nature.
The epigram are a number of the sentences turned into verse. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
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
Catullus, the great lyric poet of Caesar's Rome, is known to many as the author of the ‘Lesbia’ poems, drum-tight epigrams in which he beats his explorations of love, longing, betrayal, and loss.
It's tough to choose a single epitaph for a man who invoked so many epigrams and proverbs.
Great leaders, like Sumner and Conkling, could not be burlesqued; they were more grotesque than ridicule could make them; even Grant, who rarely sparkled in epigram, became witty on their account; but their egotism and factiousness were no laughing matter. President Grant (1869)
Her third book is witty, thoughtful, epigrammatic, sometimes scholarly and always passionate. Times, Sunday Times
The prose is of a rare stateliness and intelligence, studded with clever, sometimes almost epigrammatic mots.
Coupland the slaphappy rhetorician, drunk on throwaway tropes and instant epigrams, puts Coupland the pop sociologist in the shade.
He asked his long-suffering wife, Constance, to collect a selection of his epigrams and sayings.
Considering how much I love his writing and, particularly, all his wonderful quotes and epigrams, I suppose I'd always imagined for myself how he might have sounded.
His brilliant epigrams and shrewd social observations brought him theatrical success in the early 1890s with The Importance Of Being Earnest, Lady Windermere's Fan, A Woman Of No Importance and An Ideal Husband.
The Greek Anthology, a collection of erotic and witty epigrams compiled from classical to Byzantine times, pales beside it.
She lets one pithy epigram after the next fall flat, sadly clouding the brilliance of this real gem of a play.
Again, many of the so-called epideictic epigrams are little more than stories told shortly in elegiac verse, much like the stories in Ovid's Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology
Scenes were much reduced in length; dialogue became more epigrammatic. Times, Sunday Times
He re-inserts an oft-skipped scene about settling financial matters, and he deadens scene after scene by turning the epigrammatic dialogue into a minefield.
But then I never thought I'd see the day when "To Kill A Mockingbird" --- a novel that has inspired readers for half a century --- would be derided as a book about "the limitations of liberalism" (by Malcolm Gladwell, no less, in The New Yorker, of all places) and "a sugar-coated myth of Alabama's past" with a hero who's "a repository of cracker-barrel epigrams" (by Allen Barra, in the Wall Street Journal) Jesse Kornbluth: On Its 50th Birthday, Why Is 'To Kill A Mockingbird' Being Attacked?
What do you think Madame Morrible was saying when she ended that Quell with the epigram Animals should be seen and not heard? WICKED: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE WICKED WITCH OF THE WEST
So the short form doesn't get the credit it deserves, but to people who have a taste for the epigrammatic, the short form has an incomparable allure.
With its converse insight into the modality of romantic apostasy, this volatile epigram is nothing less than the fulcrum with which we can gain sufficient purchase to negotiate the critical conversions of Coleridgean recantation, from the odes of the 1790s through the desultory journalism of the 1800s and 1810s to the "Logosophia" of 1817 and after. The Multeity of Coleridgean Apostasy
DeLillo's characters have often talked in epigrams or gnomic utterances; now these have a future-shock fatalism about them.
In fact, Adorno is, again like Nietzsche, a brilliant stylist in German, with a gift for rhetorical flourish, pithy epigram, and the ironic pointe, which is why he has been so often quoted outside academia. Adoring Adorno
What people remember about his conversation is not what he said - he is no wit and no epigrams have attached themselves to his name - but the experience of having been drawn into the salon of his mind.
- to three epigrams, and a fingle oration* It is, however, the very oration that I was moft felicitous to obtain j for, aks! with grief I confefs, that although feven orators ha - rangued upon the queftion, one alone had generofity enough tq argue on the fide of the neglefted fifterhood; with what powers of rhetoric, my reader will very foon have K3 the A Philosophical, Historical, and Moral Essay on Old Maids
The first pocketbook contains hundreds of entries in the Haiku form currently enjoying a renaissance in hip literature circles as well as epigrams, concrete poems and other works similarly concise in their nature.

How To Use Epigram In A Sentence

Report a problem

Please indicate a type of error

Additional information (optional):