epigrammatic

Levin read the second volume of Homiakov's works, and in spite of the elegant, epigrammatic, argumentative style which at first repelled him, he was impressed by the doctrine of the church he found in them.

"Oh, well, I can do that, then," said Tom, not with any epigrammatic intention, but with serious satisfaction at the idea that, as far as Latin was concerned, there was no hindrance to his resembling Sir John Crake.

Sapsea's wisdom being, in its delivery to mortals, rather of the diffuse than the epigrammatic order, is by no means expended even then; but his visitor intimates that he will come back for more of the precious commodity on future occasions, and Mr.

Among them, like the "jocoso" of a Spanish play, full of wit and epigrammatic sallies, another girl was watching the rest with a comprehensive glance, making them laugh, and tossing up her head, too lively and arch not to be pretty.

In his sonnets he abandoned the form followed by Wyatt and adopted (still from the Italian) the one which was subsequently used by Shakspere, consisting of three independent quatrains followed, as with Wyatt, by a couplet which sums up the thought with epigrammatic force, thus: a b a b c d c d e f e f g g .

The epigrammatic saying that speech has been given to us for the purpose of concealing our thoughts came into his mind.

Most of the poems in Ultima Ora are brief, sometimes epigrammatic, sometimes anecdotal.

To drive home his point, he also quoted the great playwright William Shakespeare who wrote in an epigrammatic tone: 'The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.'

Arguably the most controversial of these was her revision of "Poetry" to a miniaturist and epigrammatic three lines.

He also added more user-friendly transitional materials, some longer notes, epigrammatic case quotes at the beginning of each chapter, and relevant images which add humor, human interest, and perspective.

His work--which has won nearly every major poetry honor, beginning with the Yale Younger Poets Prize for his first book, Some Trees--is at once lyrical and disjunctive, as epigrammatic as it is puzzling.

Nevertheless, it seems visibly pitched at a rather low level of film-making, appealing to beginners and undergraduate students rather than those who desire more complex and nuanced approaches to the art of film Those seeking pithy explanations and pragmatism, with copious illustrations, will find plenty to satisfy here; I became tired, rather quickly, of the epigrammatic and emphatic style, and absence of engagement with the complexities of narrative and aesthetics.