Sentences with phrase «as epigrams»

Something similar occurs in John Ashbery's most recent book, Breezeway (2015), where the poet uses lines by younger poets such as Todd Colby and Nicholas Hundley as epigrams.

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.»

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.

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?»)

Not exact matches

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-...]

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.

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 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?

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.

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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.

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.

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.

He pays attention to particular details that are pertinent to him and also uses words as slogans or poetic epigrams, bringing together scraps and residues of history.

The task of the translator might be seen as one that sacrifices fidelity in exchange for transmissibility, so resorting to the famous Italian epigram «Traduttore - Traditore!»

His early works included a series of candy boxes, decorated with plastic flowers and bearing terse epigrams like «Eternal Passion,» «Dear» and «Dreamy,» as well as investigations of unusually decorated marginal architectural spaces (entranceways, mezzanines), elaborately detailed flowers, and billowing and translucent women's clothes (including his important «Dappled Pleasure Dress» pieces).

[1] Basquiat first achieved fame as part of SAMO, an informal graffiti duo who wrote enigmatic epigrams in the cultural hotbed of the Lower East Side of Manhattan during the late 1970s where the hip hop, punk, and street art movements had coalesced.

It seems the Law Society's lawyers feared that the past would simply repeat itself with remarkable faithfulness (lawyers as poor historians, «condemned,» as in Santayana's epigram, to repeat the past if only in bad dreams?).