It is much more of a guidance for practical living, presented in an aphoristic style which may not be to everyone's taste. From LearnThat.org. [yourdictionary.com]
Adjective : His sermons were richly aphoristic. From Dictionary.com.
Each one, orphaned & aphoristic, deep into his sixties. From Wordnik.com. [Unmanned] Reference
Negative declarations have such little aphoristic heft. From Wordnik.com. [Tagline: The hardest trick is making them stay] Reference
The aphoristic last lines are a little lesson on humility. From Wordnik.com. [Poem of the week: What mystery pervades a well! by Emily Dickinson] Reference
Using aphoristic rhetoric to approach the sublime (Schumann). From Wordnik.com. [Mi] Reference
Intriguing, but some of it borders on the tritely aphoristic. From Wordnik.com. [August « 2009 « Squares of Wheat] Reference
There are scores of intriguing, aphoristic lines to savor, like those above. From Wordnik.com. [Poetry: What Does It Accomplish?] Reference
Here as elsewhere, Pennac's aphoristic style puts the ooh-la-la in Gallic shrug. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-03-01] Reference
Then he offers his succinct, aphoristic explanation: "Gods do not answer letters.". From Wordnik.com. [David Margolick: John Updike, Hall of Famer] Reference
It contains pithy aphoristic sentences which Burke himself would not have disowned. From Wordnik.com. [MacMillan & Co.'s General Catalogue of Works in the Departments of History, Biography, Travels, and Belles Lettres, December, 1869] Reference
I'd love to quote a dozen examples from the book, but they're not really aphoristic. From Wordnik.com. [David Swanson: Chomsky's New Book] Reference
In interview Guggenheim waxes both prophetic and aphoristic: "Politics are essential.". From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Starkman: Waiting for Solutions] Reference
It was as if Liu felt compelled to drag out the hoary clich6 of the aphoristic Chinese. From Wordnik.com. [The Miko]
Ms. Hirliman fired off brief, aphoristic replies and taped them back up for all to see. From Wordnik.com. [georgelle hirliman | writer in the window « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground] Reference
To favor symbolism over substance is to allow the proverbial tail to wag the aphoristic dog. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Morris: The Triumph of Symbolism over Substance] Reference
And Stein's aphoristic sentence, 'The difference is spreading,' might be beaulieu's epigraph. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-05-01] Reference
He was at his most banal when he attempted to be aphoristic in order to shut down a conversation. From Wordnik.com. [Beard] Reference
But take it as anything more than a series of loose aphoristic appeals and old structures emerge. From Wordnik.com. [Reviewing Like It’s 2007] Reference
The wonder of his poem is that it has a melancholy melodiousness while retaining a tight aphoristic ring. From Wordnik.com. [Closer Than Ever to Vergil] Reference
In an age when the symphony and sonata still held sway, writing these aphoristic Preludes was revolutionary. From Wordnik.com. [Chopin's Small Miracles] Reference
Defiant joy, warm good humor and a goofy playfulness abound, interspersed with kernels of aphoristic wisdom. From Wordnik.com. [It's His Land Once Again] Reference
Viennese, at least in the manner in which they con - strued the often obscurely aphoristic Tractatus Logico. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
Apart from the intensive work on Masse und Macht Canetti has written aphoristic notes, issued in several volumes. From Wordnik.com. [Nobel Prize in Literature 1981 - Presentation Speech] Reference
And some other thirty aphoristic wisdoms of this kind, which the artist threw into his lecture in the National Library. From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing] Reference
It is simply amazing how such aphoristic affirmations with inchoate ontologies are tolerated and their authors valorized. From Wordnik.com. [Philosophers abound but no philosophy] Reference
A choppy mish-mash of aphoristic blog-like posts, wanting for deeper thought and a more sophisticated, sustained argument. From Wordnik.com. [2010 June 01 | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS] Reference
His thoughts were passed down as a collection of brief "aphoristic fragments" which were written down by others after his death. From Wordnik.com. [Confucianism and the Impact of Sociopathy, Part I] Reference
There's a kind of homey, aphoristic quality to him -- which is charming, as you saw in that chart you were showing with Mary Snow. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 12, 2007] Reference
Mark Twain, who came and went on the wings of Haley's comet and made a life of aphoristic truths, concealed in humorous wisdom sayings. From Wordnik.com. [Meandering Notes From Afar: Bush, Ashcroft, Astrophysics, Time/Space, The Tachyon, Prophets and Profits...] Reference
Apart from the intensive work on Masse und Macht, Canetti has written strongly concentrated, aphoristic notes, issued in several volumes. From Wordnik.com. [Nobel Prize in Literature 1981 - Press Release] Reference
'Only it bores me rather, when you become aphoristic.'. From Wordnik.com. [Women in Love] Reference
Short aphoristic chapters will therefore best answer the purpose. From Wordnik.com. [Der Judenstaat. English] Reference
But the core strength of Chan's character lies in his pseudo-Confucian, aphoristic wisdom. From Wordnik.com. [NPR Topics: News] Reference
Occasionally, though, they may be witty, aphoristic even epigrammatic; or contrariwise, they may be. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Black Stars in a Fight Against Malaria] Reference
St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay called the casino opening an "aphoristic rising tide that lifts several boats.". From Wordnik.com. [Boston Business News - Local Boston News | Boston Business Journal] Reference
"If they are faster than you, don't try and outrun them," Big Eric says, getting into his aphoristic stride. From Wordnik.com. [Culture | guardian.co.uk] Reference
And, to herself, "Golly, it's such a relief not to have to try to be gracious and aphoristic and repartistic and everything with Jeff.". From Wordnik.com. [Free Air] Reference
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