How To Use apophthegm In A Sentence
- The interface between syntax and pragmatics may in general be summarized in a Kantian apophthegm: pragmatics without syntax is empty; syntax without pragmatics is blind.
- Halpern Sr had always had a gift for the grouchy apophthegm. Sh*t My Dad Says by Justin Halpern
- The point of the apophthegm is that after drinking wine he deprived himself of water until he got ill, a point lost by the translation here.
- Boswell's Life retains its extraordinary immediacy; it has recorded his soundbites for posterity and shaped history's opinion of the learned, apophthegmatic Doctor.
- For once, however, this apophthegm failed; the next call was altogether as ineffectual as the former; and moreover, attended with a phenomenon which to them was equally strange and inexplicable: this was no other than such a reduction in the size of Mrs. Trunnion as might have been expected after the birth of a full-grown child. The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle
- Before Socrates, Greek philosophers were seers rather than reasoners: the apophthegmatic character of their utterances affects to be the result rather of intuition than of reasoning.
- Indeed, this apophthegm he seldom repeated since his marriage, except in the company of a very few intimates, to whose secrecy and discretion he could trust. The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle
- If anything he belabours the point overmuch in this play, so that, between the incessantly hammered-home moral point and his inability to speak in anything but apophthegms, one is quite tired out by the end.
- If anything he belabours the point overmuch in this play, so that, between the incessantly hammered-home moral point and his inability to speak in anything but apophthegms, one is quite tired out by the end.
- Collier did so, and found that the moral of the Old Bachelor, the grave apophthegm which is to be a set-off against all the libertinism of the piece, is contained in the following triplet: -- Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3)
