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aphorist

NOUN
  1. someone who formulates aphorisms or who repeats aphorisms

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  • Mesell Malkontent of Faux News, the gripping cutting edge metaphorist megamedia propaganda outlet, a non-contributor of the pasty pedantry and PIG’s Pundits in General, spouts ‘demon duck du jour’, and claims, somehow, she knows, somehow, that Hezbollah is just a beauty pagent… Think Progress » Malkin: Outrage About Qana ‘Manufactured,’ ‘If It’s Not Qana, It’s Something Else…It’s Beauty Pageants’
  • Bacon aside, the condensed force and poignant brevity of whose aphoristic wisdom has no parallel in English, there is no other prosaist who possesses anything like Milton's command over the resources of our language. Milton
  • His aphoristic, rhetorical style, lends itself to statements that sound arresting but often mean very little.
  • Book critic Carlin Romano, who is also critic-at-large for the Chronicle of Higher Education (in which role he was a finalist last year for a Pulitzer in criticism), takes a look at that dubious aphorist, E.M. Cioran. An Inquirer trifecta ...
  • Intriguing, but some of it borders on the tritely aphoristic. August « 2009 « Squares of Wheat
  • As W.J.T. Mitchell once aphoristically put it, ‘When the tigers break into the temple and profane the altar too regularly, their appearance rapidly becomes part of the sacred ritual.’
  • Hi Raman, I had just reacted to your aforesaid sentence as I thought that saying something like this aphoristically should ideally be backed by sound arguments. What they wanted us to do
  • Not to trivialize his work, but one of the reasons I believe his work is so popular is the aphoristic style of his writing.
  • Devotees of popular history will have met some of these stories in the work of Liza Picard, Witold Rybczynski, Daniel Boorstin and others, but it's hard to imagine a better synthesizer than Bryson, or a pithier aphorist. Book review: 'At Home' by Bill Bryson
  • Here as elsewhere, Pennac's aphoristic style puts the ooh-la-la in Gallic shrug: Giving Up
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