epigrammatic

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For the next 10 minutes or so, Godard, smoking his familiar cigar, meditates on this vexing, evergreen question with his characteristic intelligence, opacity and epigrammatic wit.

From New York Times • Dec. 6, 2022

Grant unfolds her story in epigrammatic fashion, moving gracefully in time, drawing parallels between multiple generations.

From Washington Post • Dec. 28, 2020

And yet, line for line, her epigrammatic style perhaps most recalls that of Emily Dickinson in its radical compression of images and ideas into a few chiseled lines.

From Washington Times • Sep. 2, 2020

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

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2019

While the Adams style generated a host of memorable epigrammatic flashes, it was the worst-possible vehicle for sustaining the diplomatic niceties.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis