aphoristic

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Similarly, the cast wrings some poetry out of the prosaic, often aphoristic dialogue.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 30, 2026

Kate Riley follows Ruth from childhood to middle age, writing with kindness, hilarity and aphoristic brilliance about this eccentric woman, a lost lamb who never actually leaves the safety of the flock.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 3, 2025

Then she’d give me some sage, aphoristic advice.

From Washington Post • Sep. 30, 2021

The report here acquires an aphoristic quality: “Ms. Bennett expressed fear of what would happen if the Governor knew she had told anyone. Ms. DesRosiers and Ms. Mogul found Ms. Bennett to be credible.”

From Slate • Aug. 3, 2021

The mass of information in every department of knowledge which Voltaire, for instance, had at his disposal was immense; but the working out and application of it were strongly hasty, aphoristic, and frivolous.

From The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, November 1879 by Various