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• 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.
• 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.
• Here as elsewhere, Pennac's aphoristic style puts the ooh-la-la in Gallic shrug: Giving Up
• Poetry can suddenly, almost aphoristically, define what the mood of the time is.
• The book is a collection of short, sometimes near-aphoristic chapters organized thematically more often than through an argumentative progression. The Times Literary Supplement
• The fragments of concrete poetry that make up the bulk of Free Cell honor the rapid-fire plausibility of waking thought, which is to say the collection's often self-contained stanzas are by turns intimate, aphoristic, and incoherent -- but never less than truthful. Seth Abramson: December 2011 Contemporary Poetry Reviews