Voorbeelden van epigram

• 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.

• An epigram is not an episode in a symphonic development but a unit of music theatre, in which music objectifies itself into something abrupt, hieroglyphic, legible.

• Jackson has a nice turn of phrase and produces epigrams to be savoured.

• Epigram does not currently support imperative features.

• That is a good epigram, but the negation of democracy by discussion.

• I would take only one of his epigrams—if one can call them that.

• I do not want to over-simplify things or become unfair, but the facts spoil many of those epigrams.

• The well-known epigram, "only connect", catches something of the ironies which lie behind today's debate.