epigrammatic
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Husson films “Mothering Sunday” in extreme close-ups and quick, epigrammatic shots, jumping back and forth in time to Jane and Josh’s meeting “before the boys were killed,” and forward to the 1950s and beyond.
From Washington Post • Mar. 30, 2022
And yet, line for line, her epigrammatic style perhaps most recalls that of Emily Dickinson in its radical compression of images and ideas into a few chiseled lines.
From Washington Times • Sep. 2, 2020
In epigrammatic, nearly poetic diction, Grant, a ballet dancer turned pastry chef turned damn fine writer, reminds us of how transformative the junctures where food and life collide can be.
From New York Times • May 1, 2020
Scanlan removes all that in favor of epigrammatic bursts of language, sometimes as few as four words on a page.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2019
While the Adams style generated a host of memorable epigrammatic flashes, it was the worst-possible vehicle for sustaining the diplomatic niceties.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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