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

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

He explained this once in a comment so casual and epigrammatic that I knew it instantly to be true.

From New York Times

Modern life has rarely been articulated with such compression and epigrammatic precision.

From Los Angeles Times