How To Use gnomic In A Sentence
- Walsh should have mentioned the remarkable physiognomic similitude of Harris and Pollock.
- When reviewers and prize jurors tout a repetitive style as "the last word in gnomic control," or a jumble of unsustained metaphor as "lyrical" writing, it is obvious that they, too, are having difficulty understanding what they read. A Reader's Manifesto
- His style, too, is often tortuous and gnomic, and it can be almost impossible to see what he actually means, as the endless discussions of his analysis of the causes of the war show.
- As a psychological phenomenon, physiognomic perception has profound effects upon words' evolvement including coinage, word formation, and change of word meaning.
- He had a talent for self-advertisement and had built himself up into a picturesque figure given to gnomic utterances about his own significance in the world.
- We are not far from Carl Andre's floor pieces and his gnomic remark ‘A thing is a hole in a thing it is not,’ which points toward an idea of sculpture as a rupture in the continuum of space.
- Aesthetic; because there is nothing in common between the science of spiritual expression and a _Semiotic_, whether it be medical, meteorological, political, physiognomic, or chiromantic. Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic
- In The Approach, a mostly white painting with edges of yellow-gold, a mystical luminosity is supported by a gnomic title.
- Sporting a permanently pained expression and the hunched demeanour of a child expecting a smack, he speaks in gnomic aphorisms that frequently sound like bumper-sticker mottoes.
- Hipparchos patronized performers like Anakreon and Simonides, embellished the herms he set up throughout Attica with gnomic sayings, and added Homeric recitals to the Panathenaia.
