Sentences with word «epigram»

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

[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.

The Buddhists, of course, have never been taken in by the substance doctrine, and Hartshorne reminds us we do not have to grope back to a few epigrams from Heraclitus to get a considerable body of interpretation of the claim that all things flow (p. 177).

MacLeod went home, and sent back a suite of simple cartoons with epigrams like «if you're just here for the paycheck, don't expect to last long» and «engineers are sexy.»

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.

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.»

The Georgian - Maryland poet has a few epigrams on the subject, none of which is a pearl of wisdom I fear: «Science that can not prove proof is,» «o'er - bright, smit with desire to see and not to see,» «the sense making love to the all,» this last being what he wants from science.

Carrie Moyer's new paintings bring to mind the opening lines of Robert Frost's famous epigram, «Fire and Ice,» hinting at the equally destructive powers of love and hate: «Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice.

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

In the meantime, «with a head stuffed full of chivalric epigrams, and the self - confidence that comes from a thorough knowledge of horsemanship and swordplay,» she appoints herself her mother's chief protector and knight.

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

«A Late Twentieth - Century Prayer,» the title poem, and the humorous epigrams «At the Beach» and «A Stranger, Coming and Going» are especially fine and prove that Sandeen's technical skill has also endured.

$ 25.99 Evelyn Waugh opened his most famous novel Brideshead Revisited with this monitory epigram: «I am not I: thou art not he or she: they are not they.»

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.

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.

He was an otherworldly presence, visually signified by his mane of untamable hair, who nevertheless uttered deliberately accessible epigrams: «God is subtle, but He is not malicious,» or «To punish me for my contempt for authority, Fate has made me an authority myself.»

«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.

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.

Blessed with a script that suggested Oscar Wilde tossing out epigram outtakes and a fragile - to - fiery central performance from Cynthia Nixon, the movie was a testament to the strengths of both its subject and its creator.

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.

Gently amusing, too, is the relationship between Keitel and Caine, even if the dialogue Sorrentino writes for them often displays a fondness for empty epigrams.

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.

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.

Proulx creates lives intrinsically intertwined with the forest, a resource open to exploitation by Christian populations who'd long banished their earlier pagan inclinations that revered the natural world, an idea we are introduced to in the book's opening epigram:

The Stalin Epigram is a fictional rendering of the life of Osip Mandelstam, perhaps the greatest Russian poet of the twentieth century - and one of the few artists in Soviet Russia who daringly refused to pay creative homage to Joseph Stalin.

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

At the time of the Apostle Paul, Publius, the Roman governor of Malta, had a Maltese named Issa of which he was very fond; in this connection, the poet Marcus Valerius Martialis (Martial) made this attachment famous in one of his celebrated epigrams.

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!»

They may range from jeu d'esprits to condensed sonnets to tough little epigrams, but all are characterised by the reserved intelligence of their maker.

The look here is stylish, indulgent and haphazard; the narrative forms range from extended poems to short epigrams like» «I love you.»

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).

It's strange how easily a thoughtless epigram can become a political movement's epitaph.

The reason: People who agree with a position love to hear justices who reject it skewered with a rapier epigram.

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

He has an unerring sense of when to punctuate his narratives with epigrams that deftly encapsulate his arguments.

The first few epigrams I've included mostly in English, with just a little Latin to translate.

Although the French writer Jean - Baptiste Alphonse Karr certainly didn't have legal technologies in mind when he wrote this famous epigram, his sentiments ring true to the current state of e-discovery.

While it was refreshing to learn than a member of the art - world elite was pining for bourgeois values, it was hard to pinpoint just how those values were embodied in pastiches of academic abstraction and epigrams like Do you wan na funk with me?