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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Ovid's fellow Roman, the epigrammatist Martial, may have had the best advice: "Be content to seem what you really are, and let the barber shave off the rest of your hair."

From Time Magazine Archive

"Didn't let him get—" the epigrammatist of the company was just beginning to put in, when the brilliant witticism he was about to utter burst at once on the intellect of all his friends.

From The Mark Of Cain by Lang, Andrew