aphoristic

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But his speech is clipped, his talk witty, aphoristic, guarded, at times gnomic.

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  1. Having the character of aphorisms; resembling aphorisms; in the form of an aphorism; stated in short, unconnected sentences; abounding in aphorisms. An aphoristic style is one which is fragmentary in its outward form, but methodical in its reasoning. The method of the book is aphoristic. De Quincey. The Sanscrit law-books are sometimes in aphoristic prose, sometimes in verse, sometimes in a mixture of both. Maine, Early Law and Custom, p. 10

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  • If you like aphoristic sentences, you will probably enjoy this book too. —  So Many Books
  • It's easy to get sidetracked by the subtexts percolating in Alban Berg's 1935 Violin Concerto, one of the masterpieces of the 20th Century, so here's really what the fuss is about: The music is ravishingly beautiful and intense, a feverish hallucination of aphoristic melodies, romantic shivers, shifting densities, tortured cries and lyrical prayers. —  Freep.com - RSS
  • Where Montag is spare and often aphoristic, though, Bennett's poems are each about a page long, and often pack considerable emotional punch. —  Via Negativa
  • The Jesus movement flourished even as college professors around the nation provoked young college students each with only about fifty years left to live to discuss the existentialist Friedrich Nietzsche's aphoristic proclamation that "God is dead." —  The Reality Check
  • The play also features Wright's aphoristic haikus, unpublished during his lifetime. —  The Berkeley Daily Planet, The East Bay's Independent Newspaper
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  1. from Greek ἀφορισκός, fit for defining, sententious, from ἀφορἰζειν: see aphorism.
 

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