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
The film is all very dislocating: the audience does not expect to see black comedy played out in bleached-white settings or to find the soul of an existential epigrammatist lurking under a rumpled bush jacket.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Rus mihi dulce sub urbe est," sang the Roman epigrammatist Martial in the ist century A.D.
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
Donne’s parents were Catholics, and his mother, Elizabeth Heywood, was directly descended from the sister of the great Sir Thomas More; she was the daughter of John Heywood the epigrammatist.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 6 "Dodwell" to "Drama" by Various
