| 单词 | gnomic |
| 例句 | I wasn’t sure what to make of this gnomic utterance. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The effect is of an off-duty witch, which feels like an appropriate look for a woman who has spent 30 years dispensing gnomic wisdom to middle America. ‘You are not expecting this’: Oprah on A Wrinkle in Time 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z There’s one piece that only exists in the catalogue: a photo essay on themes of psychic and physical holes, by the gifted, if gnomic, Aki Sasamoto, who is best known as a performer. A Visit to “Visitors” on Governors Island 2015-09-05T04:00:00Z To my family, this seemed even more gnomic than radiology. My brother’s life, unraveled 2013-03-12T11:45:00Z Thank goodness for Australia's Philip Quast, who plays a gnomic priest with a Dickie Davies haircut. Ultraviolet - box set review 2013-07-25T14:00:02Z “For us, Dave is a sensibility, a place, an emotion, a feeling,” said North, his tone thoughtful, almost gnomic. The age of banter 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z “I don’t know. It might be a better idea than creating more lethal versions of viruses in labs,” he says, gnomically. John Malkovich: 'I had a lot of violence growing up, but so what?' 2020-05-21T04:00:00Z Etchings and aquatints — some playful, some troubling — accompany five gnomic prose works, or “Fizzles,” that Beckett translated from the French. Review: ‘Hand Foot Fizzle Face’ Explores Futility and Disconnection 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z His character, a professional tough guy bluntly named Hobbs, has just found his fugitive bad twin, Dom, the gnomic guru of the “Fast and Furious” franchise, played by Vin Diesel. | 'Fast Five': Vrooooom! Vrooooom! Flex ?Em if You Got ?Em 2011-04-28T18:24:33Z The book is also filled with such gnomic statements as: “You can’t discover fuchsia twice.” Art Garfunkel opens up, and what spills out is a fascinating mess 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z The gnomic track titles – The Walker In Blast And Bottle, You Will Lift Your Frame Clear, If Anyone was here he would know where we are – also help their work to resist easy readings. Raime: 'We wanted rawness' 2012-11-22T20:00:02Z Perfectly wrought in gnomic scenes, it treats Beckett with spare, sometimes stark delicacy. The Philharmonic’s New Season: What We Want to Hear 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z Brenda has left him, saying gnomically that she has different dreams, and Tom is out for the count. Radio review: A month in Ambridge 2013-04-30T14:15:25Z His disordered language is a neurological effect, not a tendency toward gnomic utterances. The Trouble With Autism in Novels 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z Solnit says she has developed a gnomic response that turns the spotlight back on the questioner. The question we came to dread: ‘Are you going for a second child?’ 2018-01-13T05:00:00Z I could go on and must go on — yet how to explain the seemingly unexplainable, beginning with a narrative and language that borders on the gnomic? ‘Cats’ Review: They Dance, They Sing, They Lick Their Digital Fur 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z Beckett included copious stage directions alongside the gnomic dialogue as the characters discuss, with dark humor, the meaninglessness of the human condition. A 92-Year-Old Composer’s First Opera Is His ‘Endgame’ 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z Daniel's gnomic conversations with his dementia-ridden father are both banal and heartbreaking. Idiopathy by Sam Byers – review 2013-04-13T10:01:01Z His comments were as gnomic and deadpan as ever. The digested Hay festival 2010-05-31T13:15:00Z “I wished to make it reach all the way to infinity, but that’s technically impossible,” he added, laughing at himself, his habit even or especially when making gnomic pronouncements. A New Hiroshi Sugimoto Sculpture in San Francisco Reaches for Infinity 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z It’s confusing, gnomic, occasionally deranging, beautifully shot, and, like the talking tree-bag, full of something. Twin Peaks recap: episodes one and two – crazy town just got much, much weirder 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z Granted, these queries can be gnomic and obscure, but at least they are food for real thought. Review: ‘The Glory of the World,’ About Thomas Merton 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z In a series of nonfiction books since then, he has acted as a kind of cosmopolitan Yoda, dispensing gnomic wisdom about Proust, travel, architecture, work and religion. Review: ‘Labor of Love’ and ‘The Course of Love,’ on Finding and Keeping It 2016-06-05T04:00:00Z He smokes, and he says gnomic things like, “If you work for the media long enough, eventually you’ll type your way back to your own doorstep.” | 'Page One: Inside The New York Times': A Hyperactive Fly on the Newsroom Wall 2011-06-16T21:05:42Z Each juxtaposes a gnomic phrase with a stark black and white image, but at this scale, they scan more as private entreaties than global dictates — rave fliers for young agitators. Barbara Kruger: Infinitely Copied, Still Unmatched 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z Warmly pointillistic in nature, the miniatures gained additional dimensions — sometimes comic, sometimes gnomic — whenever Mr. Mumma’s digital gear asserted itself over the pianism. Celebrating a Union That Rewired Classical Music 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z “Take no notice,” he says companionably, after describing the Lenin he remembers as a gnomic, anemic blond. Review: Screwball Eggheads Tear Up the Library in ‘Travesties’ 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z At first, this consists of identifying the gnomic quotes on sweet wrappers. It's Raining in Barcelona ? review 2011-01-13T22:31:00Z This essay on the last years of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's life exhibits all of Sebald's strengths as a writer – and all of his strange, gnomic, secretive foibles. WG Sebald: Reveries of a solitary walker 2013-04-20T07:00:25Z "Trying to control the home can be a form of eating disorder," Hopkinson tells me gnomically. Mum lit: a chore thing 2011-04-06T19:00:00Z She had a clairvoyant connection with the log, relaying gnomic messages from it to the townspeople, including hints to the murder at the heart of the story – a role played for both laughs and chills. Actor Catherine Coulson – aka Twin Peaks' Log Lady – dies at 71 2015-09-29T04:00:00Z So Gould is “sequestering” in his friend’s house and happy to tell the story of his life, even if by way of many freewheeling divergences, from Netflix recommendations to gnomic theories on human nature. ‘Of course I smoked marijuana!’ Elliott Gould on stardom, Streisand and Elvis Presley 2020-04-20T04:00:00Z Articles and documentaries about the Eameses lean on Charles’s gnomic statements of design philosophy: “The best for the most for the least.” Ray Eames, Out of Her Husband’s Shadow 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z In “W-3,” we see only scraps of her life before the hospital — her small sons now being raised by grandparents — fleeting and gnomic references to what precipitated the suicide attempt: money, men. ‘W-3,’ a Memoir That Recalls Suffering Without Sentimentality or Sensationalism 2021-01-06T05:00:00Z It’s a refreshing alternative to the defiantly gnomic work that plasters white cube galleries. | Margaret Lee’s One-Woman Show 2013-08-20T22:25:40Z "Yes, I did," replied the father in that gnomic fashion that is the lingua franca in limboland. Money; Lost; Damages 2010-05-29T23:05:00Z Lynch made a gnomic speech about trees, then the curtains parted and the first two hours rolled, reuniting Agent Cooper, the Log Lady, Laura Palmer and other characters last seen in 1991. David Lynch: ‘You gotta be selfish. It's a terrible thing’ 2018-06-23T04:00:00Z Warhol had already turned to the renegade composer's gnomic wisdom once before. Alas, mere 'Shadows' 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z When pushed, he tries to reconcile DiCaprio's gnomic inquiry with his own original story. Shutter Island's ending explained 2010-07-29T09:10:00Z Though it lasts only 75 minutes, the production feels long and oddly cluttered by its gnomic dialogue. Review: In ‘The Prisoner,’ Peter Brook Ponders Crime and Punishment 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z By the time he links up with a hypnotist who leads group sessions and speaks in gnomic evasions, he seems ready for the comforts of a nice hotel bed. Television Review: Finding the Offbeat Off the Beaten Path 2011-06-23T22:31:27Z If his gnomic remark is not supportable in any real biographical sense, there is little doubt Kahlo continues to exist as a potent figure of myth. Frida Kahlo Is Having a Moment 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z It is a haunting, enigmatic work, with a taste for gnomic melodies, as are the other tracks, for piano. ArtsBeat: Classical Playlist: George Antheil, Haydn, Sibelius and More 2014-03-19T16:00:09Z It’s usual for Ms. Kawakubo to offer scant explanation of her methods or thinking; she tends to issue gnomic pronouncements instead. In Paris, the Hunt for Real Emotion 2019-01-20T05:00:00Z Similarly engrossing is a set of almost 100 small, wood-framed blackboards, each with a black-and-white painting; among them are abstractions, portraits, still lifes, nudes and gnomic texts. Art Review: Uptown, a Jumble of Treasures 2011-04-22T03:31:19Z And though Cannes has provided a regular berth for JLG, the director’s gnomic approach to pre-publicity means it’s hard to work out if it will be ready in time. Sofia Coppola to Michael Haneke: the movies and directors most likely to make it to Cannes 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z In his part gnomic, part mechanic’s style, Mr. Pirsig’s narrator declares that the real world is a seamless continuum of the material and metaphysical. Robert M. Pirsig, Author of ‘Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance,’ Dies at 88 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z He spent more than two years making his next record, Cartography, released on ECM and featuring a long list of collaborators, including David Sylvian, who provided gnomic spoken-word passages. Trumpeter Arve Henriksen: Norway's top brass 2013-02-03T20:30:01Z It’s slightly gnomic, this distinction, but it suggests that while Susiraja’s works can be amusing, unexpected and shocking, they are never at anyone’s expense. Iiu Susiraja: She Has Issues? No, You Have Issues 2023-05-31T04:00:00Z The original novel is still visible, but now there's a mad, allusive tale of life on top of it, filled with gnomic, haiku-like texts and paintings. The great books giveaway 2011-03-04T11:19:03Z The greatest charms of shopping on the Palace website are the descriptors for each item, gnomic bricks of all-caps poetry. At Palace, Facing the Unbearable Being of Lines 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z And Godard, the master of the gnomic epigram and perceptive paradox, once said: "All you need for a movie is a gun and a girl." 50 years of Breathless 2010-06-05T23:04:00Z It also offers many gnomic exchanges about life's big questions, notably one about "the pooness of poo": "We are not like poo, that has to stay behind and be mixed with the earth." The Childhood of Jesus by JM Coetzee – review 2013-02-27T10:00:01Z Here, the opera’s first part, “Contact,” establishes the rough outline of the stylized, mythlike story, told with gnomic economy. Review: An Opera Erases and Rewrites the American Myth 2020-03-09T04:00:00Z Even his poetic, gnomic lyrics feel like a nod to the pageantry of the day. New Music: Releases From Kurt Feldman, Elle Varner and Marcus Miller 2012-08-06T22:24:05Z French audiences are famously tolerant of gnomic utterances from their public figures, but even they scratched their heads over this one. The President's Hat by Antoine Laurain – review 2013-03-19T12:09:05Z The chat function allows you to message other participants and also receive hints — some gnomic, some straightforward — from a virtual M.C. In These Immersive Shows, the Jury Is In (Your Home) 2020-08-07T04:00:00Z Only a few gnomic interjections, which include: “Do not underrate what I say!” New Music: New Music From Caveman, Los Campesinos! and the Fall 2011-11-14T22:59:39Z Most of the other 10 programs consist of shorts that have been gathered under gnomic and generic headings like “Beyond Landscape,” which draws together titles that deal with, yes, landscape. One of the New York Film Festival’s Best Movies Isn’t at the Main Event 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z Though he admired masters like Louis Kahn, his work is as far from Kahn’s gnomic expressions of mystery as can be. The Impeccably Understated Modernism of I. M. Pei 2019-05-27T04:00:00Z Another veteran says, gnomically, “I can also say that Dilma was honest. But a good cook is not one who cooks to her own taste—she cooks to please those who will be eating.” The Fracturing of Brazil in “The Edge of Democracy” 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z This yielded a handful of mostly useless notes, consisting of vague superlatives like “Spectacular!” or gnomic utterances like “I don’t want to be so stingy with my feelings.” How Does a Writer Put a Drug Trip Into Words? 2018-12-24T05:00:00Z It was a joyful thought from a most serious designer and, like many of her gnomic statements, open to personal interpretation. Fighting Back With Color 2020-01-19T05:00:00Z Medical accessories also figure in several sculptures made with found objects, all with a vague, gnomic quality. Amar Kanwar at Marian Goodman, Lyle Ashton Harris at CRG 2010-04-01T22:40:00Z Time away from the spotlight can make a writer contemplative, cooling youthful passions and leading to hard-earned, gnomic wisdom. Albert Innaurato Returns to the Stage With ‘Doubtless’ 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z Mr. Emm played guitar, a tertiary instrument in this band, if that, and, frustratingly, sang in a muffled manner, taking lyrics that on the album were merely curious and rendering them almost completely gnomic. Music Review: Tanlines at the Bowery Ballroom 2012-04-15T21:23:51Z Phone hacking, privacy, press intrusion – these are matters that he has thought long and hard about, but because he can't go into detail, he ends up delivering slightly gnomic one-liners. Jude Law interview: 'I was an optimist. A champion of the human spirit' 2011-07-30T21:00:02Z Two stars of the New Wave are still rolling along. 's po-mo puzzle Film socialisme is stubbornly obtuse, even by his gnomic standards. Film socialisme; Last Year in Marienbad ? review 2011-07-09T23:05:54Z The bassist Bob Cunningham, who played with Slyde, was onstage for Ms. Butterfly’s show, with the drummer Victor Jones and Mansur Scott, who occasionally beat a drum and offered gnomic verbal contributions. Dance Review: Roxane Butterfly Remembers Jimmy Slyde at Symphony Space 2010-04-18T22:52:00Z Written on each person’s place card is a gnomic utterance about its bearer. Review: Knausgaard Becomes a Writer in a Sick, Crooked World 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z This is an esoteric movie with mostly gnomic aspirations. Matthew Barney's 'River of Fundament'? Well, it's certainly big 2015-09-26T04:00:00Z This he did, but Bulger's film shows how his aggression was poured out on to the drumkit, tempered with talent and a sense of what Baker gnomically calls not rhythm but "time". Beware of Mr Baker – review 2013-05-16T14:29:00Z He looks perplexed by the inquiry, perhaps understandably, but answers gnomically: “I do enough.” Ridley Scott: ‘I wanted to scare the shit out of people. That’s the job’ 2017-05-07T04:00:00Z Even the Lisbons’ grocery list, cadged from a delivery boy, takes on a romantic, gnomic quality. “The Virgin Suicides” Still Holds the Mysteries of Adolescence 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z What we said: I loved its gnomic refusal of normal storytelling and the way it approximates the distance of Ballard’s prose. The best films of 2016 so far 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z My advice is to send a gnomically worded congratulations-and-commiserations card, then you won’t be accused of taking sides in this brief but still highly complex marital event. Katy Perry offers no respite for the embattled royals 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z In fact, it's fair to say you are less than absolutely spoiling us with your gnomic utterances, sir. TV highlights 05/04/2013 2013-04-05T06:00:02Z Behind Cunningham’s pioneering compositional methods and gnomic pronouncements lies a craftsman whose precision, rigor, and imagination could take your breath away. Dancing with Merce Cunningham in Three Dimensions 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z Tomata du Plenty was dreamy and light, prone to gnomic epithets such as: "I think advertising is more exciting than the product most of the time." Jon Savage on song: The Screamers ? 122 Hours of Fear 2010-07-27T14:54:00Z Explaining the challenges of his art, the revered tap master Jimmy Slyde says in his gnomic fashion: “There’s balance involved. There’s movement involved. And still you must swing.” She’s the Queen of Tap. Is Her Moment Now? 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z At two hours long, and with decidedly mixed levels of artistic interest bound together with a bewildering compilation of increasingly gnomic biblical nuggets, it is not short. Prom 37: Hallé/Elder – review 2012-08-12T10:57:06Z My only sustained effort at the genre manages to stutter on until Tuesday 25 April before ending abruptly with the single, gnomic utterance: "Watched Goober and the Ghost Chasers and made a different tent." Diarykeeping is an exceptional and heroic act 2012-12-30T16:00:01Z They continually sabotage their own climaxes, tapering off at the end of songs to forestall applause; and their intros and outros are gnomic and downbeat. Hedluv and Passman – Edinburgh festival review 2012-08-21T12:14:48Z “Today is a wonderful day because Krishna made it,” one man wants you to know, while another presents the gnomic advice, “Cut off the head and the body will die.” Gillian Wearing Is Spilling Your Secrets 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z That has made him ripe for satire — his gnomic musings in car ads practically begged for it. Review | Matthew McConaughey is ‘alright, alright, alright’ — and thinks you will be too 2020-10-18T04:00:00Z This rage, marked by a hostility toward anything poetic or naïve, reaches its full expression in the comments directed at Jose Canseco’s feed, a highly pleasing outpouring of slightly oddball, gnomic pronouncements. Circa Now : Nasty Comments on Twitter 2013-04-26T22:39:53Z With mounting fear, he follows the gnomic suggestions of a Buddhist monk in shades and a master sage, who insists that he find a goddess manifest on earth, known as a dakini. ‘Looking for a Lady with Fangs and a Moustache’ Review: Beyond Belief 2021-04-08T04:00:00Z A widely acclaimed drummer with a mix of artful restraint and joyful abandon, Wilson last year released “Honey and Salt,” an album setting Carl Sandberg’s gnomic poetry to original music. 13 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z In many paintings, the margins are given over to gnomic aphorisms. Paul Laffoley, Painter Inspired by Time Travel and Aliens, Dies at 80 2015-11-20T05:00:00Z The music seems to wrap around and subtly trail off the words; the lucid orchestra is neither bullying nor reticent, producing an atmosphere of gnomic, melancholy beauty. The Best Classical Music of 2018 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z The chapter titles themselves – "White", "Black", "Form", "Pulse", "Chime", "Space", "Time" – read like something Ezra Pound might have written at his most gnomic, but they announce that this is something out of the ordinary. On Poetry by Glyn Maxwell – review 2012-07-13T21:55:02Z “Head in the ...” was closer — though the actual answer, according to the designer who was dispensing her trademark gnomic explanations backstage after the show, was the “confrontation of antiquity and today.” The Theme at Milan Fashion Week? Look to the Past 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z At first it’s hard to tell — who asks her a series of gnomic questions from a computer game. ‘Mr. Robot’ Season 2, Episode 11: The Dark Room 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z We’d be able to sit and really listen to those private reveries and gnomic story songs, polished to dark shine, as we gazed through the oversize windows into the shadows of Central Park. 12 Surprising Reasons to Be Grateful for the Arts in 2017 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z Some of the juiciest laughs come from Sonny’s interactions with the gnomic Knight, a showboating supporting role that Affleck embraces with a sly, vacant deadpan and tragically unhip styling. ‘Air’ Review: The Game Changers 2023-04-04T04:00:00Z To begin The Woman I Was Born To Be, that blessed national treasure Susan Boyle goes for a gnomic statement of the obvious: "My name is ." Why celebrity memoirs rule publishing 2010-12-13T07:59:00Z The most gnomic feature of the store is the upstairs lounge. Critical Shopper: Brooks Brothers Flatiron - Critical Shopper 2011-12-13T21:02:56Z She even has a Twitter feed to record gnomic utterances, such as her recent favourite: "trifle for grownups". When two tribes meet: collaborations between artists and scientists 2011-08-21T20:30:01Z They look bureaucratic at first, but soon you find gnomic phrases like “Freedom — We Missed That Boat Again,” alongside the names of men killed in action or struck down by pneumonia and yellow fever. The African Toll of the Great War, in Song and Shadows 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z “Chalk,” by Joshua Rivkin, is what happens when your quarry happens to be a maniac for privacy and prevarication, a one-time army cryptographer whose art rejoices in gnomic ideograms, illegible phrases and inside jokes. ‘Chalk: The Art and Erasure of Cy Twombly’ Hunts for Big — and Elusive — Game 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z Mostly plants' … allow me to follow his gnomic lead and implore you as follows: Read books. Book reviews roundup: Cooked, Transatlantic and When the Money Runs Out 2013-06-07T17:45:01Z He'll answer questions in fits and starts, gnomically, in obscure one-liners or by means of silences punctuated by cigarette puffs or plaintive grunts. Cheers for Frears 2010-08-14T23:05:00Z Refn announces his intentions with much deadpan provocation and gnomic iconoclasm. Nicolas Winding Refn: 'Cinema is dead. And now it is resurrected' 2018-07-09T04:00:00Z Maybe the most gnomic boast is on the hit “She Will,” on which he declaims, “I’ve been at the top for a while/And I ain’t jumped yet.” Critic?s Notebook: Lil Wayne?s ?Tha Carter IV? - Review 2011-08-30T22:28:26Z The Caucasus Mountains are high and terrible, and they are full of caves for gnomic tribes and nomads to hide in. The mountain villages of Northern Azerbaijan, on the cusp of change 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z But a year of seismic shifts - sometimes heralded via gnomic regulatory comments in state media or a confusing melange of leaks - makes it front of mind. Analysis: Xi's next term needs a new China portfolio, investors say 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z When he established his church three decades ago, thousands of spiritual seekers flocked to hear him as he held gnomic lectures at events across the former Soviet Union. Long Arm of Russian Law Reaches Obscure Siberian Church 2021-10-24T04:00:00Z Asked if he thinks he’s ever really explained why he split — more clearly, that is, than in that gnomic tweet — Rostam laughs and says, “Why does anybody do anything?” Rostam: 'I want to speak to Iranians in America, to nonwhite people, to queer people' 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z As the documentary notes, he was part of a movement that often prized obscurity — Ezra Pound’s gnomic poems, Gertrude Stein’s redundant prose — and gave it a more colloquial, less artsy feel. Ken Burns' new Hemingway documentary doesn't give you a reason to read Hemingway 2021-04-05T04:00:00Z In images, the work appears as an eerie, gnomic scattering of 24 tall, white boxes, isolated on a hill. The Architect Making Conceptual Art Out of Buildings 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z Now that the days are getting longer, McIntosh, who is a particularly versatile musician, went in the opposite gnomic direction for his recital. Violin madness and meaning: How one instrument proves its astonishing sonic reach 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z Hammons, whose eight-and-a-half-by-eleven-inch drawing could be said to have precipitated both projects, has played a quiet and somewhat gnomic role in the first one’s realization. David Hammons Follows His Own Rules 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z The result was the fairly gnomic screenplay for his film Sunspring. Creativity and AI: The Next Step 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z Wu is generally reluctant to talk about her family, particularly her mother, whom she has gnomically described as “whimsical.” Constance Wu’s Hollywood Destiny 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z Mr. Frank was given to gnomic comments about his life and work, but his guiding motto was as clear and uncompromising as one of his photographs of America. Robert Frank, influential photographer who captured ‘The Americans,’ dies at 94 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z He generally fails to speak in anything other than fractured, gnomic phrases. What “Game of Thrones” Could Have Taught Us About Electoral Politics 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z The British negotiators would react gnomically for the benefit of their nonplussed EU counterparts on the other side of the table to what looked like bombshell Downing Street missives. How May's failed deal shattered EU relations 2019-04-19T04:00:00Z He was known for challenging established ways of thinking and for acquiring a reputation as the Pentagon’s “Yoda,” after the wise, gnomic Jedi master of “Star Wars.” Andrew Marshall, Pentagon’s gnomic ‘Yoda’ of long-range planning, dies at 97 2019-03-27T04:00:00Z The company became familiar to the fashion-conscious—and to many Manhattan commuters—in part through its tote bags, which bear the gnomic slogan “Technical Apparel for Recreation.” Outdoor Voices Blurs the Lines Between Working Out and Everything Else 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z Yet it remains a bit gnomic: “Far from my rescue are the words that I roar”? The phrase is more strange than beautiful. How to Read the Good Books 2019-01-21T05:00:00Z Mr. Smith, the BuzzFeed News editor, told me that the special counsel’s office was “gnomic” in its denial. BuzzFeed News in Limbo Land 2019-01-20T05:00:00Z Their musical language was compressed, gnomic, piercingly expressive. György Kurtág, with his Opera of “Endgame,” Proves To Be Beckett’s Equal 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z American bluster and braggadocio come more naturally to him than Beckett’s gnomic shards. Review: In a Geffen Playhouse double bill, actor Brian Dennehy soars in O'Neill, survives in Beckett 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z His statements tended toward the gnomic: The orchestra is an ideal image of society; music strengthens the spiritual development of the country; students who play in an orchestra develop a different set of values. What Makes Superstar Conductor Gustavo Dudamel So Good? 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z Debussy, facing the gnomic text of “Pelléas,” made the radical decision to set it line by line, without recourse to a versifying librettist. The Velvet Revolution of Claude Debussy 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z When I was younger, I used gnomic phrases to show the contempt I felt for this form. Truly, madly, tweetly: Tanya Gold’s other life online 2018-10-14T04:00:00Z The princesses speak jointly from within a collection of needlepoint cushions with gnomic utterances embroidered on them: “One very spoilt Yorkie lives here”; “Born to golf, forced to work”. Meet Eugenie and Beatrice … princesses, but just like us! | Tanya Gold 2018-08-04T04:00:00Z Played by Jonah Hill in a gentle, tender-eyed performance, Donnie is given to gnomic pronouncements about doing the work and staying hydrated. Review | An adoring portrait of cult cartoonist John Callahan is supposed to inspire, but irritates instead 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z I am even looking forward to reading one of his stories, though my appetite for the gnomic is limited. Is the Next Nobel Laureate in Literature Tending Bar in a Dusty Australian Town? 2018-03-27T04:00:00Z He mentioned that fortune — “two bad goals, incredibly lucky or unlucky, depending on your perspective” — and he indulged in the sort of gnomic contortion of reality that might please a tyrant. Three Points and Six Words: ‘We Won Because We Were Better’ 2017-12-10T05:00:00Z Barcelona were all old money and entitlement, Rijkaard having gnomically wandered from playing into managing, failed, and been rewarded with a top job. Golden Goal: Ronaldinho for Barcelona v Chelsea (2005) | Daniel Harris 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z In the magazine’s heady midcentury milieu, Ms. Ross was drawn to was Shawn, the meek, gnomic managing editor who became her mentor. Lillian Ross, New Yorker journalist who helped create the nonfiction novel, dies at 99 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z Mr. Brady attributes much of his unusually long N.F.L. career and the relatively little playing time he has lost to injuries to this kind of gnomic self-talk and his muscular pliability. Tom Brady’s ‘The TB12 Method’ Is Hefty but Short on Science 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z The song stutters beautifully, with Doom leaning in to his whimsically disruptive imagery, and featuring a characteristically gnomic verse by Jay Electronica. null 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z It is no simple matter to create a modern-day guide to living – boiled down to 200 pages – from writings that are often ambiguous, if not downright gnomic. Can Harvard’s most popular professor (and Confucius) radically change your life? 2017-03-26T04:00:00Z He said he was “super excited” by his new role, and explained, slightly gnomically, that the collection was called be1ngs to include different identities. Tale of two houses: Marni and Dolce & Gabbana light up Milan fashion week 2017-02-26T05:00:00Z The gnomic taunt caused more bemusement than consternation at the time, but Rove was ahead of the game. The pedlars of fake news are corroding democracy | Andrew Smith 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z And, as per, it involves a dress code whose gnomic screed – currently doing the rounds on social media – is always fun to dissect, especially in the current mood. No posers, no preppies – the Marc Jacobs dress code goes 80s 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z The royals are virtual prisoners of the Imperial Household Agency, the gnomic bureaucracy that runs the world’s oldest hereditary monarchy. The long goodbye 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z Released the same year Dahl’s book was published, “E.T.” also centered around a gnomic being with benign powers, funny speech patterns, an easy rapport with children and a memorable acronym for a nickname. Steven Spielberg's 'The BFG' seeks to recapture the heights of 'E.T.' 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z This being a film not overly encumbered by philosophical coherence or narrative clarity, the soundtrack teems with Bale’s redundant, gnomic musings while Ben Kingsley intones passages from The Pilgrim’s Progress. Terrence Malick: has the legendary visionary finally lost the plot? 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z As he put it in one of his famous gnomic utterances: “Every disadvantage has its advantage.” Johan Cruyff: father of modern game who also shaped Dutch culture 2016-03-25T04:00:00Z Scott seems torn between the desire to explain himself and the desire to maintain a Warhol-like gnomic mystery. Jeremy Scott’s Haute-Kitsch Runway 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z In the Christopher Isherwood-inspired How Long?, one character asks singer Sally Bowles: “Do you know the proper way to ask for a cigarette?”; the gnomic reply is: “All the people run from the horizon.” Julia Holter: ‘I tend to feel like everything I’m doing is crazy’ 2016-02-14T05:00:00Z Both had a knack for gnomic, oracular axioms. Everybody loves Star Wars. But here’s why Mormons especially love Star Wars. 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z But if we all work hard and believe in ourselves, maybe someday we’ll have a gnomic, world-controlling algorithm to call our own. Happy Holidays from Twitter 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z The two men have remained pretty gnomic, in public at least, about the question. Heathrow and the politics of airport expansion - BBC News 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z Asked to explain his thinking when he approached the plate, Mr. Berra offered a typically gnomic response: “You can’t think and hit at the same time.” Hall of Fame catcher Yogi Berra dies at 90 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z His philosophy, which tends towards obscure articulation and gnomic utterance, is simple at heart - that we discover ourselves by looking at others. A Point of View: Phoneless in Paris - BBC News 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z “Much like Gene Roberts, he led with an almost gnomic intelligence.” John S. Carroll, acclaimed newspaper editor in Baltimore and L.A., dies at 73 2015-06-14T04:00:00Z In the gnomic KGB tradition, Vladimir Putin’s pronouncements need to be tapped like a tuning fork to get a full sense of the subliminal implications. It's All In There, In Putin's Language: You Just Have To Listen Harder 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z While some New York bands railed against President Reagan, Agnostic Front expressed frustration and menace through lyrics that were as gnomic as its name: Outpunking the Punks 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z Much of this is relayed to the world in rather gnomic remarks: Fed's Janet Yellen Indicates That Interest Rate Rises Are Coming 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z One thinks of Magic 8 Balls delivering gnomic messages. Designing Distraction: Executive Toys 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z There are only about 40 pages of Broom here, which Howard notes in his afterword is “a novel of ideas, most of them deriving from the gnomic philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein,” a collegiate favorite of Wallace’s. The Turbulent Genius of David Foster Wallace Long before television advertising transformed the delivery of political messages, the gnomic Woolley combined his media savvy with his organizational skills to create the most disciplined, far-reaching campaign communications strategy to date. In 2016, we’re going to campaign like it’s 1916 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z Few novelists as serious as Ford would make a statement of such unvarnished optimism, but he has always shown a preference for simple assertions over gnomic speculations. Richard Ford: Heart of the Country It's not the only example of how many of Yoda's teachings are positive thinking with a gnomic slant, or bland calls for interstellar peace. Have Jedis created a new 'religion'? 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z Berryman has not been forgotten, but his gnomic revelations have less force than they used to. Remembering John Berryman, a Giant of American Poetry Sharpton told the mayor, seated to his immediate right, and Bratton that he would become their "worst enemy" if the police was not reformed, as the pair listened with gnomic expressions. Sharpton adapts adversarial style to de Blasio's New York 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z "There'll be a bit of that, a bit of this, and a bit of the other," says Glen Matlock, gnomically, of the one-man show he's about to take to the Edinburgh fringe. Glen Matlock interview: 'Being an ex-Sex Pistol is a double-edged sword' 2014-07-27T04:00:00Z He also developed a curmudgeonly reputation by griping about his aching kidney stones during marathon negotiations with finance ministers and rebuffing reporters with gnomic explanations in German or Luxembourgish. Race for a Top Job in Europe Hits the Road 2014-04-09T09:02:44Z A gnomic utterance is defined, , as something that is "short, mysterious, and not easily understood, but often seems wise". Why did Shia LaBeouf copy Eric Cantona's 'seagulls' line? 2014-02-10T15:16:29Z Like their ancestor the telegram, an email is often a gnomic haiku-length data blip open to myriad interpretations. Computers detecting sarcasm better than humans? Yeah, right 2013-07-04T14:30:02Z The gnomic menu, bound in hardcover with leather laces, offers little guidance. Hungry City: Hunan Manor in Midtown 2013-06-20T20:27:26Z It was all a bit gnomic, even by Johnson's lofty standards, but the message is clearly getting home. Scotland seek more evidence of Six Nations improvement against Ireland 2013-02-22T14:13:24Z I'm pretty sure he has found a way to get rid of his electronic tag, because when I ask, he stares with a faint gnomic smile. Julian Assange: the fugitive 2012-12-07T22:58:00Z The blurry nature of the phrase perhaps added to its gnomic quality, says Julian Baggini, editor of Philosopher magazine. Why did Shia LaBeouf copy Eric Cantona's 'seagulls' line? 2014-02-10T15:16:29Z But then it is hard to tell when the gnomic Belgian is not. London 2012 Olympics: Jacques Rogge relaxed about his final Games 2012-06-26T21:01:01Z His proverbs and rules of life seemed to the Israelites so pointed and exhaustive that they attributed to Solomon the entire treasure of their gnomic wisdom, which was afterwards collected into one body. The History of Antiquity, Vol. II (of VI) 2012-03-01T03:00:28.903Z As a gnomic writer Daniel approaches Chapman, but is far more musical and coherent. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 9 "Dagupan" to "David" 2012-02-11T03:03:39.807Z A Cowboys fan, laughing in my direction, offered this gnomic bit of wisdom: “If there’s a wing — no ring!” Never Bet on a Bird In the Playoffs 2012-01-14T19:08:36Z Another gnomic poet was Phocylides of Miletus; an admonitory poem extant under his name is probably the work of an Alexandrine Jewish Christian. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" 2011-12-05T03:00:51.527Z But it has been observed that many of the ethical reflections of the great dramatists, and in particular of Sophocles and Euripides, are gnomic distiches expanded. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" 2011-10-31T02:00:28.703Z “To finish is to finish,” he said gnomically. Spokes: The Bike Messenger Goes Hollywood as a Culture Dwindles 2011-09-30T23:49:05Z To this succeeded the second age of the fable, which belongs to the same stage of culture as the Hebrew proverbs and the gnomic poets of Greece. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William" 2011-07-16T02:00:16.387Z There is a Goethe-like poem, of a gnomic order, called Self and Life, stuffed with valuable thoughts as a turkey is stuffed with chestnuts. Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z Here his gnomic wisdom finds expression in pregnant, almost epigrammatic utterances. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z The once-celebrated Quatrains of the latter, published in 1574, enjoyed an immense success throughout Europe; they were composed in deliberate imitation of the Greek gnomic writers of the 6th century B.C. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" 2011-10-31T02:00:28.703Z The naive and fragmentary precepts of conduct, which are everywhere the earliest manifestation of nascent moral reflection, are a noteworthy element in the gnomic poetry of the 7th and 6th centuries B.C. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" 2011-02-27T03:00:31.973Z The Exeter Book contains also several pieces of a gnomic character, conveying proverbial instruction in morality and worldly wisdom. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z Then there are his gnomic utterances and the annual religious convention, the Macworld Expo in San Francisco, where Jobs regularly turns up to lay hands on his devotees. CEOs like Steve Jobs style themselves as messiahs, not mere managers. But that's just an excuse to rake it in 2011-01-25T07:00:12Z The rhetorical and dramatic elements are reduced; and the material is communicated in a style of gnomic pregnancy. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z But the title “gnomic” came to be given to all poetry which dealt in a sententious way with questions 152 of ethics. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" 2011-10-31T02:00:28.703Z Olbermann, meanwhile, like a soldier marooned on a Pacific island who doesn't know the war is over, sits nursing his wounds, and making gnomic statements and half-apologies. #MooreandMe: the hashtag that roared 2010-12-28T14:07:30Z "I didn't play really well," Tsonga said, adding gnomically, "but it was good to win because it was against another Frenchman." In-form Murray quick to see off Querrey 2010-06-28T19:54:00Z The writer, who has been styled the Hesiod or Theognis of gluttons, parodies the style of the old gnomic poets; chief attention is paid to details concerning fish. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 4 "Aram, Eugene" to "Arcueil" The poetical remains include a number of religious poems, or poems on sacred themes; ecclesiastical narratives, as lives of saints and versified chronicles; psalms and hymns; secular lyrics; allegories, gnomic poems, riddles, &c. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 2 Amiel to Atrauli It was, unquestionably, the source from which moral philosophy was directly developed, and theorists upon life and infinity, such as Pythagoras and Xenophanes, seem to have begun their career as gnomic poets. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" 2011-10-31T02:00:28.703Z Of the poems contained in the saga, the first is romantic, the second gnomic, the third heroic—and the prose narrative itself is not less varied in character. Stories and Ballads of the Far Past Translated from the Norse (Icelandic and Faroese) with Introductions and Notes These recitations, with or without musical accompaniment, soon included gnomic or didactic, as well as epic, verse; if Homer was a rhapsode, so was the sententious or “moral” Hesiod. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 6 "Dodwell" to "Drama" The gnomic principle will resist the attacks of the salamander, and I shall have the enjoyment of eating the parsnips which you cook so well. The Serapion Brethren. Vol. II The proverb, or “gnomic verse,” is very common in Old English poetry. Old English Poems Translated into the Original Meter Together with Short Selections from Old English Prose It is like a fairy dwelling, a gnomic palace built of the aether of dreams. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 Venables had an objection to the usual editorial 'we,' and one result was that the theories of the paper were laid down with a certain impersonal pomp, as gnomic utterances of an anonymous philosopher. The Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, Bart., K.C.S.I. A Judge of the High Court of Justice Some of his romances177 sound precisely like stories from the Haggada, so skilfully does he clothe his counsel in the gnomic style of the Bible and the Talmud. Jewish Literature and Other Essays Another element, always present in the longer odes of victory, is that which may be called the "gnomic." Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" These verses are examples of gnomic poetry, which was very popular in Old English literature. Old English Poems Translated into the Original Meter Together with Short Selections from Old English Prose His method is gnomic, laconic, oracular; never persuasive or plausible. Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations But he has the gnomic faculty that can convey truths of general experience in aphoristic form, and he can wind into a debatable moral issue with adroit casuistry. Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois They took earlier to the line of reasonable and dignified narrative, reducing the lyrical element, perhaps increasing the gnomic or reflective proportions of their work. Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature The moralizing of Bacchylides is rather an utterance of quiet meditation, sometimes recalling the strain of Ionian gnomic elegy. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" "One of the gnomic, or sententious poets," I replied. My New Curate Here again the rules of morality become the prevailing feature, and therefore the old Christian gnomic literature attains in this movement a second period of vigour. History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7) The religious ethic of Philo, a combination of Stoic, Platonic, Neopythagorean and Old Testament gnomic wisdom, already bears the marks which we recognise in Neoplatonism. History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7) The lyrical and gnomic usages were not abandoned. Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature Among his other attainments he abruptly discovered the gift of noble gnomic verse. Some Diversions of a Man of Letters Animism developed into mythology, mythology into gnomic philosophy, and this again became differentiated into science, art, philosophy, and theology. Nature Mysticism Here we have first religious meditations and legends of Saints, then proverbial, or as they are called "gnomic" verses, next allegorical descriptions by means of animals, and finally riddles. History of English Humour, Vol. 1 With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour If the poems discussed in the preceding pages were found to be largely didactic and gnomic in character, the great collection called Die Weisheit des Brahmanen is entirely so. The Influence of India and Persia on the Poetry of Germany The other two are legendary figures to whom anthologies of popular gnomic verses are ascribed and some of those attributed to Kapilar are probably ancient. Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 2 He would settle himself in an armchair in the smoking-room, his eyes close to the book, and plunge into those dark waters of the gnomic elegist. Some Diversions of a Man of Letters With some other Irish matter of the same description they constitute, says Mr Alfred Nutt, "the oldest body of gnomic wisdom" extant in any European vernacular. The High Deeds of Finn and other Bardic Romances of Ancient Ireland The "Sayings of the Fathers" are typical of the finest and most concentrated wisdom of the Haggadah, and exhibit thought in its impulsive, unsystematic, gnomic expression, neither logical nor illogical, because it knows not logic. Philo-Judaeus of Alexandria When this truth was in gnomic form, stated in general terms, it became compressed into the proverb. A Study of Fairy Tales The doctrine of Karma is intensely ethical and ethical discussions are more prominent in the Epics than in Homer, besides being the subject of much gnomic and didactic poetry. Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 2 A poet less gnomic than Poe, one from whom less, as they say in the suburbs, "can be learned," is scarcely to be found in the whole range of literature. Some Diversions of a Man of Letters Rückert has also enriched the German language with a mass of gnomic poetry, to the writing of which he was led by his Oriental studies. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 05 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English Witness Hillel, and indeed all the writers of the gnomic wisdom in the "Ethics of the Fathers." Philo-Judaeus of Alexandria Round the apartment are gnomic sentences in letters of gold, reminding judges, juries, witnesses, and suitors, of their duties. Account of a Tour in Normandy, Volume 1 Query whether it is not a thought naturally presenting itself to the mind, reflected by memory, confirmed by experience, and which some Mimic author has made proverbial by his terse, gnomic form of expression. Notes and Queries, Number 21, March 23, 1850 His present editor compares him with Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, and Bacon—great names, but gnomic philosophers rather than authors of maxims proper. Essays in Rebellion The "Precepts of Chiron" was a didactic poem made up of moral and practical precepts, resembling the gnomic sections of the "Works and Days", addressed by the Centaur Chiron to his pupil Achilles. Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica Later they developed the simple gnomic essay into a philosophical drama, of which Job is the classic example, or into a homily, like Ecclesiastes. The Origin and Permanent Value of the Old Testament The literature it inspired was primarily gnomic, that is, sententious, analogous to that of Pythagoras, with a tendency towards little moral tales and parables, as in the Gospel. Initiation into Literature The eyes of Tadpole sparkled as if they had met a gnomic sentence of Periander or Thales; then turning to Taper, he said, 'What do you think of "ancient," instead of "old"?' Coningsby Brilliant apercus, gnomic sayings, flights of fervid eloquence, infinitely suggestive reflections – of these there is enough and to spare; but these, though an ample equipment for the critic, are not sufficient for the constructive philosopher. English Men of Letters: Coleridge Much of poetry, gnomic and narrative, probably grew out of speech by regularizing its natural rhythm, independent of music. The Principles of Aesthetics There is a measure of grave content in the ninth prelude in E. It is rather gnomic, and contains hints of both Brahms and Beethoven. Chopin : the Man and His Music All poets and philosophers and orators have used it and have attempted to explain things gnomically. Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies |
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