How To Use Gnomic In A Sentence
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By this time I knew her well enough to understand this gnomic, seemingly banal statement.
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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.
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As a psychological phenomenon, physiognomic perception has profound effects upon words' evolvement including coinage, word formation, and change of word meaning.
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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.
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These law professors can be succinct, not to say gnomic, not to say utterly obscure.
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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.
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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.
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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
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The lyrics at times become too obscure and in some places descend into gnomic utterance.
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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.
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Many of her speeches could sound pretentiously gnomic, or ramblingly incoherent.
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His account of the image suggests that these robustly modeled features were fortuitously acquired rather than physiognomically specific to the subject.
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So his answers can be elliptic, even gnomic.
Times, Sunday Times
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He had a talent for self-advertisement and had built himself up into a picturesque figure given to gnomic utterances about his own significance in the world.
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These law professors can be succinct, not to say gnomic, not to say utterly obscure.
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Particular geological structure and physiognomic characteristics bring up much abundant mineral resources in the area.
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Both had a taste for gnomic, abstract verse - a taste that buds forth in these letters.
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Here we have first religious meditations and legends of Saints, then proverbial, or as they are called "gnomic" verses, next allegorical descriptions by means of animals, and finally riddles.
History of English Humour, Vol. 1 (of 2) With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour
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Any self-respecting philosopher ought to be prepared with some gnomic sayings that can bear several interpretations, at least some of them scandalous.
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His style, too, is often tortuous and gnomic, and it can be almost impossible to see what he actually means, as the endless discussions of his analysis of the causes of the war show.
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We hear iambs, trochees, Virgil's hexameters, the Norse alliterative lines, each arranged in their various couplets, quatrains, choric stanzas, gnomic verses, and much more besides.
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Sentences are thrown out which, because they lack aesthetic context, must seem gnomic to any but the unnaturally well-informed.
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Such tangled connections are how all this book's stories mesh: as found texts, remembered movies and gnomic cross-references.
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DeLillo's characters have often talked in epigrams or gnomic utterances; now these have a future-shock fatalism about them.
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We hear iambs, trochees, Virgil's hexameters, the Norse alliterative lines, each arranged in their various couplets, quatrains, choric stanzas, gnomic verses, and much more besides.
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But he doesn't ramble or rant; instead, he suggests vast conceptual contradictions in gnomic, comic haikus.
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There are a few gnomic statements, for example ‘stable isotope discrimination is therefore defined as enzyme-mediated fractionation’.
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Gnomic maxims add to a wise, seductive, fabular tone.
Times, Sunday Times
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But physiognomics concerns itself with the features of the face taken in themselves and with the changes which accompany the alterations of consciousness, whereas mimicry deals with the voluntary alterations of expression and gesture which are supposed to externalize internal conditions.
Criminal Psychology: a manual for judges, practitioners, and students
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The phrases evoke both the portentousness of a movie script and the gnomic meter of haiku.
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His semi-aristocratic origins and gnomic utterances, his appearance and personality (staring eyes, middle-European name, cyclic and anal personality, withdrawal into northern isolation), are striking.
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The neglect of the public realm was presided over and encouraged by an ossifying Conservative administration, while the Prince of Wales made gnomic pronouncements on the sidelines.
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Currently, these models consider only plant functional types distinguished by their physiological (C3 versus C4 photosynthesis), phenological (deciduous versus evergreen), and physiognomic (grass versus tree) attributes.
Climate change and fire in the Arctic
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The exceptionally acute psychiatrist Meynert shows11 how physiognomics depends on irradiation and parallel images.
Criminal Psychology: a manual for judges, practitioners, and students
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This area will be reserved for shorter, more gnomic utterances, hopefully enigmatic and curt enough to conceal the arrant imbecility that will have spawned them.
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Such writing inevitably takes the form of short fragmentary and often gnomic utterance.
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We must assume, of course, that these different aspects of his gnomic philosophy are to be unified into some coherent whole.
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These gnomic texts serve as a kind of decentering device, forcing the viewer to abandon traditional notions of meaning and enter into Dittborn's symbolic world.
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(_g_) Lastly, like nearly all the dramatists of his day and of times much earlier, Shakespeare was fond of 'gnomic' passages, and introduces them probably not more freely than his readers like, but more freely than, I suppose, a good play-wright now would care to do.
Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth
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For brevity is both an apophthegmatic thing and a gnomic one, and it is more clever to gather much thought in a small space, just as in seeds the potentialities of whole trees are gathered.
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The collection ends with a typically gnomic pronouncement from Jean-Luc Godard entitled Dans le Noir du Temps which disinters fragments of his old films as part of what is apparently a fiercely grim ongoing farewell to cinema.
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The assumption that the work is a physiognomic likeness has driven scholarly efforts to identify the panel's subject.
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Despite this, Marxists have spent more than a century mining his texts in order to piece together otherwise disparate, and often gnomic, comments and asides on capitalism and nature.
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Leconte deepens and enriches the situation by having Faber consult the real psychoanalyst in the office next door, who gives him gnomic advice and a large bill.
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As on your physiognomical voyage you sail round his vast head in your jollyboat, your noble conceptions of him are never insulted by the reflection that he has a nose to be pulled.
Moby Dick; or the Whale
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Such a rethinking would not necessarily reject outright the possibility that such images represent their subjects through physiognomic likeness.
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This may seem impossibly gnomic, and it is certainly complicated to decipher, but its main arguments are clear enough.
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She can't recall if Adam originally made this gnomic remark, or if it's her own discovery.
MIDDLE AGE: A ROMANCE
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Even his private comments grew much more guarded as the work itself became increasingly gnomic and resistant to interpretation.
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In any case, there is always more entertainment to come, courtesy of Jose's gnomic post-match pronouncements.
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While whoever publishes Clinic's work might like to have a listen to the closing 'Run Gospel Singer' with relation to 'C.Q.', they might also feel a slab of envy at 'Wild Strawberries', built on repeated riffs, distorted vocals that simultaneously recall Ade Blackburn's gnomic vocalising and takes it several stages further and overdriven garagey thrash at the end of which it seems it's just a race to see who blinks first.
The Line Of Best Fit
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Adapter and star Moe Angelos plays the young Sontag alongside a video projection of the older, more iconic Sontag also played by Angelos, who smokes and offers gnomic comments while observing the action.
Michael Giltz: Theater: Under The Radar and Coil Warm Up January
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She can't recall if Adam originally made this gnomic remark, or if it's her own discovery.
MIDDLE AGE: A ROMANCE
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It is true that Mr. Yaffe calls Mr. Dylan, at one point, a "gnomic adenoidal seer.
Poet, Prophet and Puzzle
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Hipparchos patronized performers like Anakreon and Simonides, embellished the herms he set up throughout Attica with gnomic sayings, and added Homeric recitals to the Panathenaia.
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Sporting a permanently pained expression and the hunched demeanour of a child expecting a smack, he speaks in gnomic aphorisms that frequently sound like bumper-sticker mottoes.
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In The Approach, a mostly white painting with edges of yellow-gold, a mystical luminosity is supported by a gnomic title.
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Aesthetic; because there is nothing in common between the science of spiritual expression and a _Semiotic_, whether it be medical, meteorological, political, physiognomic, or chiromantic.
Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic
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We are not far from Carl Andre's floor pieces and his gnomic remark ‘A thing is a hole in a thing it is not,’ which points toward an idea of sculpture as a rupture in the continuum of space.
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He had a talent for self-advertisement and had built himself up into a picturesque figure given to gnomic utterances about his own significance in the world.
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As a psychological phenomenon, physiognomic perception has profound effects upon words' evolvement including coinage, word formation, and change of word meaning.
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His style, too, is often tortuous and gnomic, and it can be almost impossible to see what he actually means, as the endless discussions of his analysis of the causes of the war show.
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When reviewers and prize jurors tout a repetitive style as "the last word in gnomic control," or a jumble of unsustained metaphor as "lyrical" writing, it is obvious that they, too, are having difficulty understanding what they read.
A Reader's Manifesto
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Being a New York type, Artifex deploys an arsenal of ironic, gnomic, one-liners: "Life is an opportunity to make things happen," "What is more important than maintaining one's enthusiasm?
Regina Weinreich: Revolutions of the Mind: Three Sisters and Mistakes Were Made
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But Barker? as the show's know-all, know-nothing pawnshop assistant, dispensing gnomic advice about women and America? appears in almost every episode and is (alongside fellow standups Kristen Schaal and Rhys Darby) one-fifth of the idiosyncratic quintet that made the show so kookily enjoyable.
Arj Barker: Landing of the Conchord
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gnomic verse
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What is missing, he argues, is an acknowledgement of the history of delay, prevarication, demands for clarification, gnomic utterances, false trails, garden paths and double-speak by the republican leadership.
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Combined with the topographic and physiognomic maps of natural terrains, a 3-D model which generates the geometrical structures of complex terrain, has been developed.
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But since the subsistence is one, and He Who exercises the will is one, the object of the will, [1858] that is, the gnomic will [1859], is also one, His human will evidently following His divine will, and willing that which the divine will willed it to will.
NPNF2-09. Hilary of Poitiers, John of Damascus
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His compositions were elevated and formal, distinguished by the boldness of their metaphors and a marked reliance on myth and gnomic utterance.
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Such gnomic utterances are no use to policymakers.
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“physiognomics” a deep truth; but this truth is not expressible in definite words and lines.
Christian Ethics. Volume II.���Pure Ethics.
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The original Japanese editions have gnomic little phrases on their obi strips instead.
Upcoming 9/10/2009
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Walsh should have mentioned the remarkable physiognomic similitude of Harris and Pollock.
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Even more gnomic and less rewarding was those liner notes' unreadable amplification in his ‘novel’ - ah, remember when the term ‘novel’ conferred cachet?
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The meaning of this gnomic utterance still eludes me.
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The precise scope of this responsibility remains as gnomic as in the 1964 version, but the symbolism is obvious.
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A large obelisk north of the village, erected in 1823, offers the gnomic advice that kings should not strain their prerogatives nor subjects rebel.
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We hear iambs, trochees, Virgil's hexameters, the Norse alliterative lines, each arranged in their various couplets, quatrains, choric stanzas, gnomic verses, and much more besides.
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It is true that Mr. Yaffe calls Mr. Dylan, at one point, a "gnomic adenoidal seer.
Poet, Prophet and Puzzle
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The picture could be a physiognomical paradigm of a conspirator, a machinator, a schemer, a Machiavel.
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It begins with typical examples of the brief gnomic phrases that were to become a hallmark of Franck's style.
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Being a New York type, Artifex deploys an arsenal of ironic, gnomic, one-liners: "Life is an opportunity to make things happen,""What is more important than maintaining one's enthusiasm?
Regina Weinreich: Revolutions of the Mind: Three Sisters and Mistakes Were Made