Sentences with phrase «wildean epigrams»

In his 1988 Annual Letter to Shareholders, the human epigram known as Warren Buffett gave what would become his most famous quote, «[W] hen we own portions of -LSB-...]

The first is its initial epigram, «All education is the development of genius.»

It was this state of affairs that evoked the satirical epigram,

Those institutions which appear not yet to have been drawn into the undertow are the traditional black colleges, the Bible colleges, and the «enclaves» to which Jencks and Riesman referred in our epigram.

«We are,» Barth says, «no less truly summoned to listen to what the Bible has to say here in the form of saga than to what it has to say in other places in the form of history, and elsewhere in the form of address, doctrine, law, epigram, epic and lyric.»

Some of his balanced epigrams have become classics.

In the constant sociability of our age people shudder at solitude to such a degree that they know no other use to put it to but (oh, admirable epigram!)

He writes, as always, with magisterial command of all possible sources in all known languages and a gift for the occasional elegant epigram derived in part, I suspect, from a lifetime of reading Edward Gibbon for fun.

That topic will continue to occupy Whitehead; one of his latest lectures, reprinted in Modes of Thought gives his final resolution as an epigram: «what is energy in physics is life in biology.»

Reinhold Niebuhr's epigram is relevant: «Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible; but man s inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.

His mind, though intricate in its matter and process, was no chaotic jumble of high epigrams.

The editors employ an epigram from Max Weber: «The early Christians knew full well the world is governed by demons and that he who lets himself in for politics, that is, for power and force as means, contracts with diabolical powers and for his action it is not true that good can follow only from good and evil only from evil, but that often the opposite is true.

Tart as some of these epigrams may be, they rarely come across as cheap shots.

The brochure is headed by an epigram from Kierkegaard: «It is not worthwhile remembering that past which can not become present.»

In that context we can understand the bicentennial epigram written by Harry Jaffa, one of the few political scientists who continues the great tradition today: «In 1776 the United States was so to speak nothing; but it promised to become everything.

Donne, for example, uses the strict logicality of the epigram to create delightful surprises.

In fact, two gems from Pascal's Pénsées would make for perfect epigrams with which to begin and end Kugel's book: «The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me» (which sums up his argument about the absolute «smallness» and «silence» that circumscribe our existence and lead us to transcendence), and, «The heart has its reasons, which reason can not understand,» (which sums up his argument against rational reductionism).

The basis of his talk is I Peter 2, and much of it is delivered in what guys at the conference described as «word pictures,» which I figured out are epigrams that tend to rhyme and elicit lots of hoots and cheers.

And is it not an epitome, as it were, of the significance of Greek culture, an epigram of its own writing, with which it is also better served than with the frequently voluminous disquisitions sometimes devoted to it?

You can almost see the modern concept of the «manager» emerging through his career, he even had a Brendan Rodgers-esque liking for the occasional gnomic epigram.

Beny speaks in low, staccato epigrams.

But I certainly gave it the old college try, and endeavored to go at least months, if not years, before I circled back to an epigram that I had previously supplied.

In his Orion magazine article, «Leave No Child Inside,» Louv discusses the need behind the movement to reconnect kids with nature: «As one suburban fifth grader put it to me, in what has become the signature epigram of the children - and - nature movement: «I like to play indoors better»cause that's where all the electrical outlets are.

It is also just one example from a full house of poignant epigrams peppering the script of this fast - paced production.

As far back as ancient Rome we find no less a figure than Martial, the father of the epigram, outing a rival as a self - haircutter and taunting him with a nasty Numquid tonsorem, Gargiliane, times?

Yet Sagan is often identified with the epigram, «Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.»

Collectively, they left behind an astonishing trove of pop culture — advertisements, gambling forms, official proclamations, birth announcements, magical spells, declarations of love, dedications to gods, obituaries, playbills, complaints, and epigrams.

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«A Good Woman,» a ham - fisted adaptation of Wilde's play «Lady Windermere's Fan,» suffers from a staggeringly bad miscasting of its central role and from a cut - and - paste screenplay that substitutes random insertions of Wilde epigrams for character.

And although moral rigidity is problematic, other kinds of certainties, such as the wonderful rightness of the well - turned epigram, are to be celebrated.

Many of the characters have new nationalities: they are American and Italian as well as English, although the English characters are allowed to utter most of the epigrams, shipped in from various Wildean sources.

It's a quiet and gentle film, emotional but not manipulatively sentimental, sad but not nihilistic, Marilyn Manson epigram and Goth - font chapter markers notwithstanding.

The movie is attentive to Wilde's plot but relatively impatient with what it signifies as long as it can find more spreads and epigrams to distract us with.

Once the action shifts to Gotham City, Batman Begins has more genuinely frightening moments than any of the other movies, but the theme of fear and how it affects people is developed only through an endless series of portentous epigrams.

In particular, Richard Nguyen Sloniker is meticulously poised as Lord Windermere, Conner Neddersen brittle and Wodehouse - ian as Cecil Graham, and Tyler Trerise uncommonly smooth as the epigram - spouting cad Lord Darlington, the man who lures Lady W. almost off the cliff.

Strained of much of its Englishness by the casting of American leads and a relocation from 1892 England to 1930 Italy, A Good Woman earns most of its good will from those Wildean epigrams, many pilfered from elsewhere in the writer's repertoire.

Robert Altman: The Oral Biography (Knopf) begins with an epigram that pretty well sums up Altman's attitude toward «truth» and «realism» in cinema and life.

At the film's heart is a fitful conversation that unfolds like a string of koans, epigrams, jokes and silences.

Billy and Hans have committed the unforgivable crime of kidnapping Bonny, Costello's pet shih tzu, which carries around its neck an identity disc that reads as memorably, if somewhat more brutally, as the epigram Alexander Pope wrote to hang on the collar of Frederick, Prince of Wales's dog («I am his Highness» dog at Kew; Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?»)

Beginning with an epigram from Chumbawamba's seminal «Tubthumping,» Balls Out introduces two intramural football teams destined to remain locked in combat through eternity: the lovable Panthers and the frat - boy Titans, both enrolled at an unspecified college.

It includes ten of Martial's epigrams in Latin with provided vocabulary.

I recommend having students learn a little about this astonishing Roman author before they try to translate these epigrams.

He recalls a comment he made about the narrow political window for the standards movement as «the only significant epigram I ever coined in 66 years on this planet.

Pupils look at famous saying and epigrams and figure out what they mean, as well as what they reveal about Oscar Wilde himself.

I know that my books of epigrams will never be a mass - market product.

(A couple had short dedications or epigrams.)

On the other hand, have you considered «gory epigrams»?

Twitter makes us all epigram writers in AOL - ese.

Some are epigrams and maxims (for example, on Damian Hirst: I DO N'T FEAR HIS SHARK.

And so it goes for the new pictures: coy takes on Frank Stella, Ed Ruscha, and Brice Marden interrupted by stenciled epigrams like «Save Our Country Now,» «Forget Your Troubles,» «Isn't It Rich,» and, for that obligatory dash of yiddishkeit, «Oy.»