epigrammatist
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This version emphasizes Turgenev as both a pathologist and an epigrammatist, laying out his specimens of unhappy Russian gentry for cool anatomy and precisely worded summations.
From New York Times ● Aug. 19, 2015
Ovid's fellow Roman, the epigrammatist Martial, may have had the best advice: "Be content to seem what you really are, and let the barber shave off the rest of your hair."
From Time Magazine Archive
The film is all very dislocating: the audience does not expect to see black comedy played out in bleached-white settings or to find the soul of an existential epigrammatist lurking under a rumpled bush jacket.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is, therefore, fortunate that Mr. Baldwin is a captain of industry rather than a scholarly epigrammatist with political finesse and a nice Disraelian scorn.
From Time Magazine Archive
"You are an epigrammatist, Jim," said Berwick, smiling.
From Frontier Boys in Frisco by Roosevelt, Wyn
