epigram in English

noun
1
a pithy saying or remark expressing an idea in a clever and amusing way.
So, after weeks of intense preparation, I have come up with several epigrams so devastatingly clever in their sarcasm that my adversaries will be forced to admit defeat and submit to my will immediately.

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1. He fashioned no stilted epigram.

2. He has a genius for epigram.

3. He fashioned no stilted epigram. Sentencedict.com

4. We must bear in mind this instructive epigram.

5. We can express this statement as an epigram.

6. Tito was ready(http://Sentencedict.com), and scarified the epigram to Scala's content.

7. Suddenly a surprising image or epigram will light up the scene.

8. The hon. and learned Gentleman made an epigram out of it.

9. In Emerson almost every sentence is an anecdote, a picture or an epigram.

10. Scattered through its numerous volumes are priceless gems of poetry, epigram, and story-telling.

11. The essay proceeds by category, each ushered in by a thought - provoking epigram.

12. Antonyms for Banality include epigram, witticism, coinage, nuance, original saying, quip, joke, jest, wisecrack and gag

13. Can be seen everywhere on campus celebrity of Painting, epigram, motto, displayed a rich cultural connotations.

14. The epigram to The Second Sex is: half accomplices, half victims like every one else.

15. 51 The ambivalence of imperial attitudes is neatly summed up in Tacitus' epigram, ‘libertatem metuebat, Adulationem oderat’, Ann

16. His silence about the authorship of the more famous epigram thus amounts almost to a denial that Simonides wrote it.

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18. In 19 shortly after Stalin's agriculturalcollectivization policies plunged the Soviet Unioninto famine, Mandelstam wrote a short and searing poem titled "Epigram AgainstStalin."

19. Allusive athletics: an Attalid epinician epigramThe first poem I would like to explore is an epinician epigram which extols the Olympic victory of an unspecified Attalus

20. Some research-oriented functional languages such as Coq, Agda, Cayenne, and Epigram are based on intuitionistic type theory, which lets types depend on terms.

21. An unnamed observer commented regarding an epigram praising the temple as a wonder of the ancient world: “It is now a most desolate and wretched place.”

22. The relationship between the continuities and the discontinuities of history have rarely been better expressed than in Mark Twain’s epigram, “The past does not repeat itself, But it rhymes.”

23. In 480 he had a hand that was so unlucky that he wrote an epigram to record it; Agathias reproduced it half a century later and this allowed the game to be reconstructed in the 19th century.

24. ‘But Ellis shows strength with the sonnet ‘Kitchen Witches’ and the Aubade ‘Space.’’ ‘It should be clear from these quotes that Davis is an effortless formalist, and he excels at the epigram, Aubade, and sonnet.’ ‘In this love poem, this free-verse Aubade, one lover …

25. When Aldus Manutius began his Greek impressions in 1495, he was one of his first collaborators with Marcus Musurus: he composed an epigram of four verses (called Thesaurus Cornucopiæ and horti Adonis) for a volume of Greek grammarians from the aldine presses in 1496.