epigrammatic
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With a shrewd, pared-down and epigrammatic prose style, he has written “a quietly brilliant book that warms slowly in the hands.”
From New York Times • Aug. 12, 2021
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
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 • May 3, 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
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