Usage examples (20)

• The aphorist does not argue or explain: he asserts.
• I toyed with being an aphorist, but the mode can get a bit tiresome.
• As usual, Easy isn't much of a detective - his inquiries lead to a chain of suspicious characters who finger one another - but he could hardly be improved as a philosopher and...
• Book critic Carlin Romano, who is also critic-at-large for the Chronicle of Higher Education (in which role he was a finalist last year for a Pulitzer in criticism), takes a...