But he expressed displeasure in a terse, aphoristic style that carried a devastating punch.

The basic texts are composed in an aphoristic style known as the sutra which literally means thread on which each aphorism is strung like a pearl.

He praised Gracián for his aphoristic writing style (conceptismo) and often quoted him in his works.

His voice is conveyed in the same high-flown, aphoristic, first-person style.

Parker's comprehensive biography describes how Galbraith (1908-2006), once the most famous economist in America, became a public intellectual, honing his famously aphoristic style.

From time to time, this aphoristic style leads to some dubious overstatements.

The book is Nietzsche's first in the aphoristic style that would come to dominate his writings, discussing a variety of concepts in short paragraphs or sayings.

The aphoristic style of Straw Dogs also comes from the fact that I like reading aphoristic books.

It's only in England that the aphoristic style is unusual.

Because Hoffer cultivated an aphoristic style, the unpublished notebooks (dated from 1949 to 1977) contain very significant work.