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Papers are written about "activating stunned fish", his epigrammatic summation of the post-merger integration of the succulent but ill-managed morsels that Haier has taken over.Yet Haier's factories in Qingdao still have echoes of China's communist past.
Ottoman murabbaʾs often feature an epigrammatic style.
Francis Picabia, who was associated with Duchamp in the United States during the war, joined forces with the Swiss Dadaists in 1918; his contribution was an epigrammatic elegance of style.
Four well-known Sanskrit collections, of the 7th century, are the famous "century" of Amaru, king of Kashmir, and the three "centuries" by the poet Bhartṛhari; one of the latter's collections is devoted to love, another to worldly wisdom a very popular theme in epigrammatic verse and the third to dispassion.
The same epigrammatic style and the same fervent puritanism can be discerned in the writings of Mao Tse-tung, who initiated in the Cultural Revolution the most successful war against beauty that has been waged in modern history.
Brautigan's prose writing is notable for its terse epigrammatic style, juxtaposition of surreal images with mundane items or events, and dreamlike presentation that often relies upon the personal memories of the narrator or of a character while eschewing conventional character development.
In the post-Classical era, Ciceronian style came to be regarded as laboured and boring, and an epigrammatic compressed style was preferred by such writers as Seneca and Tacitus.
Orton's taste for dialogue in the epigrammatic style of Oscar Wilde was shared by one of the wittiest dramatists to emerge in the 1960s, Tom Stoppard.
There are lengthy digressions in which he aired his remarkably detailed knowledge of legal procedures, financial manipulations, or industrial processes, but at its best his style is remarkably graphic, fast-moving and tersely epigrammatic but richly studded with sarcasm, wit, and psychological observation.
His finely wrought, epigrammatic poems, with their tragically ironic views of Hellenistic and Byzantine history, contain daring, sensuous glimpses of homosexual love.
Although his play Salomé (published 1893) was banned during rehearsals, Wilde's greatest literary success came in the theatre with a series of light, epigrammatic comedies of manners: Lady Windermere's Fan (1892), A Woman of No Importance (1893), An Ideal Husband (1895), and The Importance of Being Earnest (1895).
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The word "epigrammatic" functions primarily as an adjective . It modifies nouns to indicate that they possess the characteristics of an epigram, meaning they are concise, witty, and often insightful. Ludwig AI validates this usage.
Expression frequency: Very common
