How To Use gnomic In A Sentence
- By this time I knew her well enough to understand this gnomic, seemingly banal statement.
- Malraux's own prose could be oracular, gnomic and mannered, but it never, ever, sounded like a series of captions to a photo spread in Paris Match.
- As a psychological phenomenon, physiognomic perception has profound effects upon words' evolvement including coinage, word formation, and change of word meaning.
- In the Australian physiognomic classification system, the CFF is considered a complex notophyll vine forest type that is more generally defined as a submontane tropical rain forest.
- These law professors can be succinct, not to say gnomic, not to say utterly obscure.
- He did not go on to explain his position in any detail, but he did not have to; his neo-colonial patronisation illuminated despite his gnomic brevity.
- As I approach the end of her post, the following gnomic thought pushes itself towards the front of my brain and refuses to budge: borders only delineate states of mind.
- They were not philosophers, for they spoke the language of feeling; but the civilization of which they were the strongest outcome was already tinged with influences derived from early philosophy -- especially from the gnomic wisdom of the sixth century and from the spirit of theosophic speculation, which in Aeschylus goes far even to recast mythology. The Seven Plays in English Verse
- The lyrics at times become too obscure and in some places descend into gnomic utterance.
- In an introductory note to the teacher, he says wryly that ‘Much of the commentary has been kept sufficiently gnomic not to impede the teacher who wants to modify or dissent from it,’ and such a note is borne out by what follows.