epigrammatic
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In particular, they borrowed from “Lombard Street,” Bagehot’s epigrammatic description of life in Victorian finance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 21, 2026
But he does remember hearing the warm laughter after his first barbed, epigrammatic zinger, and realizing that he could, in fact, do this.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2024
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
With a shrewd, pared-down and epigrammatic prose style, he has written “a quietly brilliant book that warms slowly in the hands.”
From New York Times ● Aug. 12, 2021
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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