epigrammatic

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[ US /ˌɛpəɡɹəˈmætɪk/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. terse and witty and like a maxim
    much given to apothegmatic instruction
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How To Use epigrammatic In A Sentence

  • epigrammatic discourse or expression.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • This haiku (a 17 syllable epigrammatic verse) by one of Japan's greatest poets seems at first glance to have little to it.
  • 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.
  • Their ethereal, angular post-punk replication is competent but anonymous, and their lyrics are epigrammatic bordering on cryptic, serving as ideal, nondescript verbal placeholders.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
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