epigrammatist
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This version emphasizes Turgenev as both a pathologist and an epigrammatist, laying out his specimens of unhappy Russian gentry for cool anatomy and precisely worded summations.
From New York Times • Aug. 19, 2015
"Never think of leaving perfume or wine to your heir," advised the Roman epigrammatist Martial.
From Time Magazine Archive
And Wilde is still the most brilliant epigrammatist in the modern theatre, though for sustained comic dialogue he cannot hold a candle to Shaw.
From Time Magazine Archive
Sure enough, it was Nikita Khrushchev, epigrammatist, agriculturist, commissar, statesman�and now, it seemed, officially a war hero.
From Time Magazine Archive
No history of French literature, however, would be complete without a notice of Piron, the greatest epigrammatist of France, and one of her keenest and brightest wits.
From A Short History of French Literature by Saintsbury, George
