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

Sure enough, it was Nikita Khrushchev, epigrammatist, agriculturist, commissar, statesman�and now, it seemed, officially a war hero.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is, therefore, fortunate that Mr. Baldwin is a captain of industry rather than a scholarly epigrammatist with political finesse and a nice Disraelian scorn.

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

"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