Sentences with phrase «with 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.»

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

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.

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.

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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.

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).

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.

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?

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.

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

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

Lawler's well - known epigram, A Picture is No Substitute for Anything, which she titled a joint show with fellow artist Sherrie Levine, seems to fold Ivins's two ideas into a single, enigmatic utterance.

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.

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).

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

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

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?).