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

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

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

"Never think of leaving perfume or wine to your heir," advised the Roman epigrammatist Martial.

From Time Magazine Archive

The true critic is not the sharp captator verborum; not the brisk epigrammatist, showing off his own cleverness, always trying to outflank the author against whom he has arrayed his wits and his learning.

From Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes by Brown, E. E.