aphoristic
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Kate Riley follows Ruth from childhood to middle age, writing with kindness, hilarity and aphoristic brilliance about this eccentric woman, a lost lamb who never actually leaves the safety of the flock.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 3, 2025
That’s nothing new: For decades, Davis has specialized in aphoristic stories that thrive on wordplay, rhythm and irony while avoiding easy sarcasm or dad jokes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2023
The results are alternately — or sometimes simultaneously — profound, hysterical, saccharine, aphoristic, rhapsodic, loopy and unhinged, a kind of timeless-yet-woke Generation Alpha version of Charles Schulz’s “The Doctor Is In.”
From New York Times ● Feb. 11, 2022
Where a recently-relapsed girl found solace and tenderness in “Rue”—an episode with the aphoristic alternate title that insists “Trouble Don’t Last Always”—our new titular teen finds very little to be hopeful about this time around.
From Slate ● Jan. 23, 2021
And if we compare Vauvenargues with any of our English aphoristic writers, there is not resemblance enough to make the contrast instructive.
From Critical Miscellanies (Vol 2 of 3) Essay 1: Vauvenargues by John Morley
