How To Use Epigrammatic In A Sentence
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epigrammatic discourse or expression.
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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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I wasn't sure if he was speaking epigrammatically or flirtatiously.
Wake Up, Sir!
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And on that epigrammatic, but fundamentally flawed theory, I'll leave you.
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This haiku (a 17 syllable epigrammatic verse) by one of Japan's greatest poets seems at first glance to have little to it.
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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.
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Their ethereal, angular post-punk replication is competent but anonymous, and their lyrics are epigrammatic bordering on cryptic, serving as ideal, nondescript verbal placeholders.
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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.
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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.
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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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Ethiopia is the country of the future," Birtukan Midekssa would often say epigrammatically.
Alemayehu G. Mariam: Ethiopian Groundhog Year 2010
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With its epigrammatic incandescence, it echoes in the mind.
Times, Sunday Times
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‘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
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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
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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
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The great age of English satire began with Dryden, who perfected the epigrammatic and antithetical use of the heroic couplet for this purpose.
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He has a quote from Kurt Vonnegut epigrammatically placed on his site.
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Some are witty and epigrammatic, while others poignantly lament the writer's widowhood in unguardedly emotional terms.
The Times Literary Supplement
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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
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He is marvelous in a rare recording of the complete Op 11, giving emphasis to the epigrammatic qualities of these elegant works.
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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
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Bacon, in his Essays, adopts an epigrammatic style.
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Even at the age of 20, suave epigrammatic wit shows itself.
Times, Sunday Times
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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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Her third book is witty, thoughtful, epigrammatic, sometimes scholarly and always passionate.
Times, Sunday Times
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The prose is of a rare stateliness and intelligence, studded with clever, sometimes almost epigrammatic mots.
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Scenes were much reduced in length; dialogue became more epigrammatic.
Times, Sunday Times
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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.
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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.
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His epigrammatic paragraphs turn the photographs they puzzle over into allegories and metaphors.
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His fragments are in a pointed, epigrammatic style, probably due to sophistic influence.
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The pieces were expertly crafted and shaped with epigrammatic concision (none longer than five minutes).
Times, Sunday Times
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In the epigrammatical words of its organisers, the scheme is seeking 'little ideas with big impact'.
Times, Sunday Times
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That, and the envy-inducing smartness of the writing, so polished and sharp, so epigrammatic.
Times, Sunday Times
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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Despite the pain, and his reliance on liquid morphine to control it, his style is almost epigrammatic and always to the point.
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It is the most witty and epigrammatic of all Taylor's works.
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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.
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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.
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The prose is of a rare stateliness and intelligence, studded with clever, sometimes almost epigrammatic mots.
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Page 305, Volume 2 and in a letter of 1547 expressed epigrammatically:
Dictionary of the History of Ideas
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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His style was concise, spontaneous, epigrammatic.
The Times Literary Supplement
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They are characterized by brevity, by a key-word, by epanaphora [i. e, repetition], and by their epigrammatic style ...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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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.
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“It is, and it is not,” he answered, epigrammatically.
The Mystery of a Hansom Cab
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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
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To put it epigrammatically, the totality of the modern state seems to require unconditional surrender as a necessary correlative of its total wars.
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Along the way the reader continually encounters hard nuggets of epigrammatic truth.