aphoristic

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.

Home being aphoristically the place when you go there they have to take you in, Sully does, but it’s an uneasy reunion.

All became the grist for her dark satire, laced with wry, aphoristic asides on the human condition.

The chapters are short; the tone is aphoristic; the eye for cultural and social detail is Tom Wolfe-like.

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.”