epigrammatist

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This version emphasizes Turgenev as both a pathologist and an epigrammatist, laying out his specimens of unhappy Russian gentry for cool anatomy and precisely worded summations.

From New York Times • Aug. 19, 2015

It is, therefore, fortunate that Mr. Baldwin is a captain of industry rather than a scholarly epigrammatist with political finesse and a nice Disraelian scorn.

From Time Magazine Archive

Sure enough, it was Nikita Khrushchev, epigrammatist, agriculturist, commissar, statesman�and now, it seemed, officially a war hero.

From Time Magazine Archive

He has the turn of the epigrammatist, but makes no ostentatious display of it.

From Time Magazine Archive

Another epigrammatist, Oscar Wilde, in comparison with him may be said to have used the midnight oil so liberally in the preparation of his witticisms, that one might almost detect the fishy odour.

From G. K. Chesterton, A Critical Study by West, Julius