epigram
Example Sentences
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That reminds me of a line from “Medea” that Alison Gaylin used as an epigram for her thriller “The Collective”: “Hate is a bottomless cup; I will pour and pour.”
From Los Angeles Times
For students drowning in recondite texts about feminism, media and Marxism, Kruger’s work cut through the theoretical verbiage with razor-sharp epigrams.
From Washington Post
If there’s a whiff of conservatism in that last epigram, it’s not surprising.
From New York Times
The book — each section of which opens with an epigram from Wittgenstein’s “Philosophical Investigations” — eventually bogs down in philological digression.
From New York Times
Because of her ingenious facility with an epigram, Ms. Lebowitz is often compared to Dorothy Parker, but she could not live more differently, far from the sewage of booze and romantic chaos.
From New York Times
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