A long pause, during which the group reflects on this gnomic pronouncement. From LearnThat.org. [Ruth Shalit]
gnomic verse. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Have to be deliberately gnomic for the time being, n. From Wordnik.com. [Polly Loves Milly] Reference
"One of the gnomic, or sententious poets," I replied. From Wordnik.com. [My New Curate] Reference
Federer was also generous to Nadal – in his gnomic way. From Wordnik.com. [Wimbledon 2010: Roger Federer ready for pursuit of seventh title] Reference
For a moment I couldn't make sense of this gnomic utterance. From Wordnik.com. [Homeland Insecurity] Reference
A tad gnomic in spots for me there Flo but I think I get the drift. From Wordnik.com. [Polly Loves Milly] Reference
I just kind of shoved those things into one gnomic phrase or clause. From Wordnik.com. [Lonesome Rangers: Homeless Minds, Promised Lands, Fugitive Cultures] Reference
The concluding sentence is gnomic in character and metrical in form. From Wordnik.com. [Hiero] Reference
He's the master of the beautiful, understated, cryptic, gnomic pop-song utterance. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Petty and Tom Frank: Two Geniuses of Pop Culture] Reference
The original Japanese editions have gnomic little phrases on their obi strips instead. From Wordnik.com. [Upcoming 9/10/2009] Reference
Deciphering Greenspan's gnomic phrasings has long been a favorite Wall Street pastime. From Wordnik.com. [Who Will Be the Next Fed Chairman?] Reference
Simna ibn Sind was his gnomic apprentice, wielding a sword impossibly larger than himself. From Wordnik.com. [Into the Thinking Kingdoms]
And I have heard, O flea, that one of the gnomic poets saith as follows in these couplets. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
They come at you, if not from ambush, then in gnomic haikus, icepick laser beams, or waves. From Wordnik.com. [The Black Album] Reference
Donaju, suddenly in command of the Real Compan-a Irlandesa, ignored Sharpe's gnomic comment. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Battle]
When first brought out in book form, her generally short, gnomic verses were often regularized. From Wordnik.com. [Helen Vendler's new commentary on Emily Dickinson, reviewed by Michael Dirda] Reference
"She's a Nantes barrel, sir, " Pelletieu added in gnomic explanation as he patted the howitzer. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Havoc]
When this truth was in gnomic form, stated in general terms, it became compressed into the proverb. From Wordnik.com. [A Study of Fairy Tales] Reference
Parnassus for gnomic bards, and theirs in the nature of the case must always be the largest public. From Wordnik.com. [Letters to Dead Authors] Reference
Many journal papers tackled philosophical problems through an exegesis of one of his gnomic remarks. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-01-01] Reference
It was followed by many more unexceptional pages of solemn, gnomic maunderings about grief and loss. From Wordnik.com. [All Day in a Rich Guy's Limo Makes for a Very Silly Novel] Reference
In one of his gnomic apothegms, the Greek sage Heraclitus said that the way forward is the way back. From Wordnik.com. [Classical Realism: Antidote to 'Novelty Art'] Reference
His face looked younger than his flowing white hair would imply, giving him an ageless, gnomic look. From Wordnik.com. [Pastwatch, the Redemtion of Christopher Columbus]
They were very gnomic, about a lightning-flash from Macedon which would burn the Great King's throne. From Wordnik.com. [The Praise Singer]
There was a gnomic sentence at the end to the effect that Paris is still demanding the list of names. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Prey]
Another element, always present in the longer odes of victory, is that which may be called the "gnomic.". From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"] Reference
Hizzoner put out a gnomic statement of regret, and there were stunned and mystified comments from his fellow councillors. From Wordnik.com. [Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine]
Much of poetry, gnomic and narrative, probably grew out of speech by regularizing its natural rhythm, independent of music. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of Aesthetics] Reference
Schrager sent me the glossy self-published book of his gnomic thoughts in a box of Plexiglas wonder, complete with two DVDs. From Wordnik.com. [Condos of the Living Dead] Reference
The moralizing of Bacchylides is rather an utterance of quiet meditation, sometimes recalling the strain of Ionian gnomic elegy. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"] Reference
With its heavy use of gnomic sentences and moral tags, Lucile reminds us that sentimental opera, like sentimental fiction, enacts. From Wordnik.com. [Talking About Virtue: Paisiello's 'Nina,' Paër's 'Agnese,' and the Sentimental Ethos] Reference
On one level he seems indecipherably cryptic and gnomic, crooning highly original texts that it would take a rabbinical scholar to decode. From Wordnik.com. [Comebacks and Co-Conspirators] Reference
Postman, a disciple of seminal (and famously gnomic) media theorist Marshall McLuhan, was intellectually in quite another league than McKibben. From Wordnik.com. [Kill Your Television? Is It Still Alive?] Reference
As late as the 18th century, Benjamin Franklin seized upon aphorisms and gnomic verses as a way to inculcate strength of character among his American readers. From Wordnik.com. [The most inaccurate quiz ever] Reference
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