aphoristic

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All became the grist for her dark satire, laced with wry, aphoristic asides on the human condition.

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The chapters are short; the tone is aphoristic; the eye for cultural and social detail is Tom Wolfe-like.

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The results are alternately — or sometimes simultaneously — profound, hysterical, saccharine, aphoristic, rhapsodic, loopy and unhinged, a kind of timeless-yet-woke Generation Alpha version of Charles Schulz’s “The Doctor Is In.”

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“In This House,” the sign begins, followed by a list of aphoristic family rules, such as “We Do Hugs,” “We Do Mistakes,” “We Do Loud Really Well” or “We Do Family.”

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Cash and Delaney are both given to brief, aphoristic comments that provide added insight into who they are.

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