Sentences with phrase «of epigrams»

I fear what it says about me, but I emerged with this sorry trio of epigrams:

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

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.

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

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

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?

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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,

«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.»

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?»)

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

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.»

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 epigrams eventually caught the eye of The Village Voice, which published a piece about them.

The title of the exhibition «New Suns» derives from an epigram of an unfinished book by the Afro - American science - fiction writer Octavia Butler, which captures the cosmic tension between optimism and pessimism and touched Joseph's soul in depth.

Hanging menacingly from the ceiling, Dodaredone, Epigram of Goethe is a marionette filled with metallic, thigh - like shapes.

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.

We looked at Barbara Kruger's work and Jenny Holzer's use of truisms, coupling our discussion of Holzer's work with aphorisms and epigrams.

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.»

Sawon quotes the International Business Times for the show's epigram: ««WCW» stands for «Woman Crush Wednesday,» which is when users share pictures of ladies that they find attractive or admire.»

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.

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.

The old epigram that freedom of the press applied only for those who owned one, went down for the count.