epigram

Example Sentences

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Like all the best epigrams, it is deeply wise, even if it overgeneralises.

From The Guardian

“I had a head stuffed full of chivalric epigrams, and the self-confidence that comes from a thorough knowledge of horsemanship and swordplay,” she writes.

From New York Times

Online, his followers — who include Elizabeth Gilbert and Julia Roberts — share not only their love of his drawings and epigrams but also their personal stories about illness, fear, worry and loss.

From Washington Post

Fornés’s surrealistic style, like Beckett’s or Ionesco’s, favors quips and epigrams.

From New York Times

This, more or less, is what Walser’s elderly hero feels now about his conversations with Ulrike, who teases him by twisting his own slightly pompous epigrams against him.

From New York Times