How To Use Apophthegm In A Sentence
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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.
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Halpern Sr had always had a gift for the grouchy apophthegm.
Sh*t My Dad Says by Justin Halpern
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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.
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Boswell's Life retains its extraordinary immediacy; it has recorded his soundbites for posterity and shaped history's opinion of the learned, apophthegmatic Doctor.
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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)
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On folio 239. occurs the following apophthegm, which is the one relating to the subject before us: --
Notes and Queries, Number 12, January 19, 1850
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The sutra states the doctrine in a apophthegmatic form; the bhasya is a commentary on it; and the vartika is an elucidation of the commentary.
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But the text consists for the most part of apophthegmatic generalizations about the topic, about the superficiality, the confusion and ineffectiveness of social theory about ageing and old people, and about the fundamentally paradoxical and inconsistent situation of these old people in the social structure.
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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.
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His apophthegm, or maxim by which he is remembered, is: ‘All men are bad’ an unambiguous example of selection bias.
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Patriotism having become one of our topicks, Johnson suddenly uttered, in a strong determined tone, an apophthegm, at which many will start: "Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
It's a Flee Country
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The style, when it is not terse and apophthegmatic, as of one trying to imitate Bacon, is stiff with conceits and long-winded sentences.
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Further, if the general levels of literacy and learning cited by these studies is accurate, should we perhaps look differently at the evidence found in the Apophthegmata Patrum regarding tensions between learned and unlearned monks?
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Yeah, my wife is a teacher, so I'm extra biased, but that rubbish apophthegm has always engendered a desire in me to give its adherents a thrashing with a buggy whip.
From the keyboard of patton oswalt
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His apophthegm, or maxim by which he is remembered, is: ‘All men are bad’ an unambiguous example of selection bias.
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The picture is completed by his apophthegmatic liner notes in English, French and German.
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For brevity is both an apophthegmatic thing and a gnomic one, and it is more clever to gather much thought in a small space, just as in seeds the potentialities of whole trees are gathered.
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Father Eustace also dealt forth with well-meant kindness those apophthegms and dogmata of consolation, which friendship almost always offers to grief, though they are uniformly offered in vain.
The Monastery
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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.
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Patriotism having become one of our topicks, Johnson suddenly uttered, in a strong determined tone, an apophthegm, at which many will start: ‘Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.’
The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D.
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To do Mrs Wilson justice, her nocturnal harangues upon such occasions not unfrequently terminated with this sage apophthegm, which always prefaced the producing of some provision a little better than ordinary, such as she now placed before him.
Old Mortality
