epigrammatic

Example Sentences

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One might read them as anecdotal for the Iranian-American experience, but rendered in Vossoughi’s epigrammatic prose they ultimately unfold through the language of the universal.

From New York Times

Sitting down for an interview at a nearby hotel earlier that day, a pastel scarf slung around his neck and a thicket of white hair tousled on his head, he had been similarly epigrammatic.

From New York Times

Scanlan removes all that in favor of epigrammatic bursts of language, sometimes as few as four words on a page.

From Los Angeles Times

He gives his characters some dinner-party wit that, when it sticks close to their experience, offers a spritz of epigrammatic effervescence.

From The New Yorker

Godard’s setups are simple: closeups and two shots, composed with a spare yet profound graphic inflection, in which characters deliver epigrammatic dialogue of philosophical and literary inspiration.

From The New Yorker