0 a short saying or poem that expresses an idea in a clever, funny way:
One of Oscar Wilde's most frequently quoted epigrams is "I can resist everything except temptation".
1 a short saying or poem that expresses an idea in an amusing way
Collectively these art works redress calligraphy's historical emphases on epigrams, language purity, and expressive brushstrokes, finding other validating criteria for this ancient art form.
Shapely sentences, sparkling epigrams, brilliant dialogue chased nimbly through her travailing brain.
They too condensed insights into maxims, riddles and gnomic sayings, or epigrams about prudent living and shrewd, insightful public decisions.
Individuals certainly differ greatly in their preferred constructions, especially those prefabricated ones, be they cliches, epigrams, pause fillers, or whatever.
It is very distinctive, marked by a heavy use of paradoxes and epigrams.
They start to talk to one another in epigrams.
Here we have the epigram of evil resolution, a musical image of the irreversibility, the un-undoability of acts.
Often it follows the exact contours of words: but it is the meaning of the words, not the phonetic structure, that the epigram seeks to memorise, to freeze.
