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
He has the turn of the epigrammatist, but makes no ostentatious display of it.
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
‘The greatest epigrammatist of the world, and one of its most disagreeable literary characters.’
From Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Luce, Edmund
