| By this time I knew her well enough to understand this gnomic, seemingly banal statement. |
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| Many of her speeches could sound pretentiously gnomic, or ramblingly incoherent. |
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| In any case, there is always more entertainment to come, courtesy of Jose's gnomic post-match pronouncements. |
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| The precise scope of this responsibility remains as gnomic as in the 1964 version, but the symbolism is obvious. |
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| It begins with typical examples of the brief gnomic phrases that were to become a hallmark of Franck's style. |
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| The phrases evoke both the portentousness of a movie script and the gnomic meter of haiku. |
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| This may seem impossibly gnomic, and it is certainly complicated to decipher, but its main arguments are clear enough. |
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| Such writing inevitably takes the form of short fragmentary and often gnomic utterance. |
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| Sentences are thrown out which, because they lack aesthetic context, must seem gnomic to any but the unnaturally well-informed. |
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| His semi-aristocratic origins and gnomic utterances, his appearance and personality, are striking. |
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| In The Approach, a mostly white painting with edges of yellow-gold, a mystical luminosity is supported by a gnomic title. |
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| His compositions were elevated and formal, distinguished by the boldness of their metaphors and a marked reliance on myth and gnomic utterance. |
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| Even his private comments grew much more guarded as the work itself became increasingly gnomic and resistant to interpretation. |
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| The lyrics at times become too obscure and in some places descend into gnomic utterance. |
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| These law professors can be succinct, not to say gnomic, not to say utterly obscure. |
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| The president's gnomic statements allow officials to interpret them as they please, and use them as cover for their own crusades. |
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| Leconte deepens and enriches the situation by having Faber consult the real psychoanalyst in the office next door, who gives him gnomic advice and a large bill. |
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| An air letter from Hong Kong: five paragraphs of gnomic Eastern wisdom signed 'A Faithful Fool.' A clutch of requests for a signed photograph. |
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| And a more gnomic triple from a Telegraph Toughie by Elgar: 5d Lassie's outstanding heavenly body? |
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| She's also the most transparent with the public – the exact opposite of the gnomic Alan Greenspan, who rarely spoke publicly except when forced. |
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| Sometimes pat and sometimes gnomic, he has a knowing, quasi-authorial irony that keeps his self-analysis interesting. |
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| Any self-respecting philosopher ought to be prepared with some gnomic sayings that can bear several interpretations, at least some of them scandalous. |
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| Dyer uses this kind of gnomic, prophetic, baffling language all the time, and it can be trying and vague. |
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| Malraux's own prose could be oracular, gnomic and mannered, but it never, ever, sounded like a series of captions to a photo spread in Paris Match. |
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| This area will be reserved for shorter, more gnomic utterances, hopefully enigmatic and curt enough to conceal the arrant imbecility that will have spawned them. |
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| 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. |
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| A large obelisk north of the village, erected in 1823, offers the gnomic advice that kings should not strain their prerogatives nor subjects rebel. |
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| These gnomic texts serve as a kind of decentering device, forcing the viewer to abandon traditional notions of meaning and enter into Dittborn's symbolic world. |
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| Thackeray, who adored the painting, assumed that Turner had cast the tugboat as the gnomic villain of the piece, dragging the valetudinarian to its last indignity. |
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| He compares these examples of gnomic wisdom with Paul's parenesis in Romans 12, pointing out crucial differences between Paul and the Sages. |
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| What if it had contained a great deal more circumstantial detail and a much larger cast of characters, and not been explored in this small-scale suite of teasingly gnomic poems? |
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| By the end of the novel, Baudolino, the hero, is an old man who lives as a hermit, dispensing gnomic words of wisdom to anyone who can be bothered to come and quiz him. |
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