epigrammatical
epigrammatic

And there was also work that was not epigrammatical.

Her writing has been described as "almost helplessly epigrammatical."

Often restless and excitable, sometimes explosive or epigrammatical, he usually sparkled in conversation.

Before producing these he had composed his really important poems, which are chiefly satirical and epigrammatical in their nature.

In style, they are epigrammatical, parallelistic and allusive.

He is effortlessly epigrammatical.

He published brief and epigrammatical treatises, in the form of dialogues, and in olden style.

His first serious publication was the History of Louis XI, which is dry and epigrammatical in style but displays considerable powers of research and impartiality.

The style was epigrammatical, parallelistic and elusive, dwelling on the vanity of riches and spiritual benefits of the worship of Shiva.

Ms. Batuman is almost helplessly epigrammatical ("Air travel is like death: everything is taken from you"), and it's tempting to keep quoting from her book forever.

Here, they expressed their devotion to Shiva in simple poems which were spontaneous utterances of rhythmic, epigrammatical and satirical prose emphasising the worthlessness of riches, rituals and book learning.

These poems were spontaneous utterances of rhythmic, epigrammatical, satirical prose emphasising the worthlessness of riches, rituals and book learning, displaying a dramatic quality reminiscent of the dialogues of Plato.

To these qualities are joined a philosophical sophistication, art-historical expertise and epigrammatical style that advance Mr. Danto to the front rank of modern criticism, in the company of such big critical guns as Harold Rosenberg and Clement Greenberg.

The poet Thomas M. Disch noted that because Updike was such a well-known novelist, his poetry "could be mistaken as a hobby or a foible"; Disch saw Updike's light verse instead as a poetry of "epigrammatical lucidity."

And they sometimes say epigrammatic, enigmatic things, like, I am you.

He became most well known for his epigrammatic poems.

The President's epigrammatic sayings are taught from kindergarten through medical school.

He turned from the epigrammatic dirigible and wandered inside again.

When they talk, the language is a wry, epigrammatic poetry of observation.

They do not have, in any case, either the daring or the epigrammatic quality that gave such intense pleasure last year.

Some of these epigrammatic remarks would be more suitable printed on T-shirts.

Paragraphs 1-3 repeat the familiar arguments against reason in an epigrammatic form.

His clear, epigrammatic style was the very style to command the attention of young men.

Few cities have inspired better epigrammatic praise than San Francisco.

His epigrammatic style is not to everyone's taste.

For instance, one evening he said a charmingly epigrammatic thing in my presence."

The comedy is character driven and ranges from the situational to the epigrammatic.

Besides the stories, the characters also quote various epigrammatic verses to make their point.

His monumental and visionary poems gave way to short, epigrammatic verses over time.

The best war movies have dialogue that is epigrammatic, thus memorable, rather than expository.

And somehow it did not sound epigrammatic; but only odd and obscure.

Borges was in many ways the opposite, a master of epigrammatic minimalism.

"Polls are like perfume," he said, gravel-voiced and epigrammatic as ever.

They are among his most inward, epigrammatic work, driven by short cyclical motifs in an open form.

His most memorable films and scenes are elegant and epigrammatic.

As always, this playwright is a fount of epigrammatic lines and bright jokes.

Such epigrammatic debates are meant to pass for revealing dialogue; the film then drops the subject.

They drink tea and exchange epigrammatic insights as the conflagration begins.

It makes me go all epigrammatic and oblique.