They favor a clipped, epigrammatic style of phone conversation, as opposed to the flabby, endless digressions of Americans.

Did the artist's epigrammatic style subliminally influence Meyer and his executive chef, Chris Bradley (formerly of Gramercy Tavern)?

Where Porter's finest songs flaunt the epigrammatic high style of polished light verse, Berlin's lyrics lack that dandified flash.

Devizes writes in a vivid and epigrammatic style; his Latin shows the effect of the 12th-century Renaissance in its polish and in its reminiscences of classical poets.

Raymond Hill defined an enueg as "the enumeration in epigrammatic style of a series of vexatious things".

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

As a poet, he authored a dozen books from 1953 to 2006, writing in epigrammatic style about things in his everyday life.

Mr. Beatty's speech, delivered in his trademark halting and epigrammatic style, touched on topics from diplomatic recognition for Cuba (he's for it) to the inequities of the emerging global economy.

Thus the reversed genitive, as an expression of historical revolutions distilled into a form of thought, came to be considered the hallmark of Hegel's epigrammatic style.

His epigrammatic style is not to everyone's taste.