| Despite the pain, and his reliance on liquid morphine to control it, his style is almost epigrammatic and always to the point. |
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| The prose is of a rare stateliness and intelligence, studded with clever, sometimes almost epigrammatic mots. |
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| This epigrammatic style is fun, but if repeated one becomes aware that it points as much towards the author's cleverness as the subject in hand. |
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| He is marvelous in a rare recording of the complete Op 11, giving emphasis to the epigrammatic qualities of these elegant works. |
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| The play's often epigrammatic language can be ironic, bitter, philosophical, and even lyrically tender. |
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| Along the way the reader continually encounters hard nuggets of epigrammatic truth. |
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| His fragments are in a pointed, epigrammatic style, probably due to sophistic influence. |
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| The great age of English satire began with Dryden, who perfected the epigrammatic and antithetical use of the heroic couplet for this purpose. |
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| His epigrammatic paragraphs turn the photographs they puzzle over into allegories and metaphors. |
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| The Uruguayan writes in short, epigrammatic sentences and breaks up his book into many chapters, each running to not more than half-a-dozen paragraphs. |
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| Frost memorably crafted the language of common speech into traditional poetic form, with epigrammatic effect. |
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| It poses a series of rhetorical questions on how a poet may be recognized and ends in an epigrammatic fashion, revealing its answer succinctly at the end. |
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| He goes on to extol especially the epigrammatic power of the elegiac distich by translating numerous specimens from the elegiac writings of Goethe and Schiller. |
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| He re-inserts an oft-skipped scene about settling financial matters, and he deadens scene after scene by turning the epigrammatic dialogue into a minefield. |
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| 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. |
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| So the short form doesn't get the credit it deserves, but to people who have a taste for the epigrammatic, the short form has an incomparable allure. |
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| And on that epigrammatic, but fundamentally flawed theory, I'll leave you. |
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| It is the most witty and epigrammatic of all Taylor's works. |
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| In 43 bc he began to publish a series of historical works in a terse, epigrammatic style studded with archaisms and avoiding the copiousness of Cicero. |
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| He undercuts the sentimental story with a dry, epigrammatic visual wit and a steadfast integrity that, happily, he is still plying, at the age of a hundred. |
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| In the post-Classical era, Ciceronian style came to be regarded as laboured and boring, and an epigrammatic compressed style was preferred by such writers as Seneca and Tacitus. |
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| Ottoman murabbaʾs often feature an epigrammatic style. |
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| It aims less at clarity and vividness than at epigrammatic point. |
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