epigrammatic

How To Use epigrammatic In A Sentence

• The prose is of a rare stateliness and intelligence, studded with clever, sometimes almost epigrammatic mots.
• His fragments are in a pointed, epigrammatic style, probably due to sophistic influence.
• The pieces were expertly crafted and shaped with epigrammatic concision (none longer than five minutes). Times, Sunday Times
• In the epigrammatical words of its organisers, the scheme is seeking 'little ideas with big impact'. Times, Sunday Times
• That, and the envy-inducing smartness of the writing, so polished and sharp, so epigrammatic. Times, Sunday Times
• I suppose that the problem could be epigrammatically put in terms of the old joke: 'If we are put on earth to be good to other people, what are the other people put on earth for?' Archbishop's lecture celebrating 60th Anniversary of the William Temple Foundation
• Heretofore Biblical writers have given to us battles, laws, histories, songs; now we have in Solomon's writings a new style in short, epigrammatic sentences. The Woman's Bible
• In length he prefers the epigrammatic and in form he is an adept formalist, acknowledging his antecedents in the farmer-poets of the past, Frost, Horace and Theognis.
• Only a heightened style of performance can make sense of such iconoclasm, but here, especially in the first half, Wrentmore takes it at such a languid pace that the epigrammatic power of Orton's language is utterly drained away.
• If I had Bill Bryson's wit and epigrammatic suavity and his ability to make each datum ripple seamlessly into the next. Book review: 'At Home' by Bill Bryson