epigrammatic

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For the next 10 minutes or so, Godard, smoking his familiar cigar, meditates on this vexing, evergreen question with his characteristic intelligence, opacity and epigrammatic wit.

From New York Times • Dec. 6, 2022

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

He gives his characters some dinner-party wit that, when it sticks close to their experience, offers a spritz of epigrammatic effervescence.

From The New Yorker • May 3, 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