| 单词 | aphoristic |
| 例句 | Manuscript Found in Accra might function as an aphoristic grab bag of his principal thoughts. Paulo Coelho on Jesus, Twitter and the difference between defeat and failure 2013-03-17T19:30:00Z Tux is philosophically speculative, delivering aphoristic riffs that reveal Kierkegaardian abysses in such daily trivialities as a campfire, and mini marshmallows in cocoa. What to Stream: “Tux and Fanny,” Albert Birney’s Boldly Imaginative Instagram Animation 2019-05-28T04:00:00Z Because these aphoristic little tweets were forming a jelly bean trail leading toward new music, and everyone likes jelly beans, even if they don’t like Kanye West. Perspective | Congratulations, you just survived the longest month in rap history 2018-05-01T04:00:00Z Pausing frequently for effect, he spoke about constructing fables, discerning between the abstract and the concrete, and “kicking the tires of aphoristic writing.” My Strange Literary Fellowship 2019-06-16T04:00:00Z As I sat across from her, surrounded by tall orchids and bright roses, those aphoristic pillows started to seem really credible, especially with a phalanx of uniformed staff to clean and fluff them. Jennifer Lopez on Her Power Bossness, ‘Second Act’ and A-Rod 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z Still, now and again, Plumly offers up a weary-hearted or shrewdly aphoristic observation: “Who knows where the acquired little daily defeats that at last overwhelm us come from?” Michael Dirda reviews ‘The Immortal Evening’ by Stanley Plumly He is considered, verbose, dapper, charming, mysterious, vain, pretentious, aphoristic, arrogant, refined and absolutely catastrophic. 'I'm an expressionist nihilist at heart': the dark allure of Tom Burke 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z Even if she might savour Webster's aphoristic couplets a little more, Charlotte Emmerson's Duchess offers exactly the right mix of defiance and death-wish, passion and pathos. The Duchess of Malfi ? review 2010-10-20T20:31:00Z His new songs are focused and aphoristic, earnestly reflecting on life without getting too precious. New Releases From Conor Oberst and Brantley Gilbert 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z “In This House,” the sign begins, followed by a list of aphoristic family rules, such as “We Do Hugs,” “We Do Mistakes,” “We Do Loud Really Well” or “We Do Family.” ‘In This House’ Yard Signs, and Their Curious Power 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z After a while you hardly notice the segues from Brahms’s searching, mystical pieces to Schoenberg’s aphoristic atonal miniatures. Finding Brahms in Schoenberg 2010-10-08T15:44:00Z These two short books are part of a projected trilogy, and together they’re already an achievement: dense, aphoristic, philosophically acute novels that read like Iris Murdoch thrice-distilled. Times Critics’ Top Books of 2017 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z She describes, with typical aphoristic grace, being in that champagne-colored Impala on a long drive, alone, in the late 1990s. Rachel Kushner’s Essays Cover a Lot of Ground, Driven by Powerful Engines 2021-04-05T04:00:00Z A similar structure underpins “You Are,” from 2004, set to aphoristic fragments from Jewish religious and philosophical sources. Review: One Birthday Tribute (of Many) for Steve Reich 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z Brilliant, arrogant, indisputably foreign, Pünd prides himself on understanding the inner workings of the human psyche, and is prone to dropping aphoristic bon mots. One Whodunit Nests Inside Another in ‘Moonflower Murders’ 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z Henry David Thoreau’s aphoristic sentences fit much better in 280 characters: Perspective | Brevity is the soul of wit, but 280 characters on Twitter would sure come in handy 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z The quarreling couple in “Forgiving Me Forgiving You” distills a stalemate in a domestic relationship with an aphoristic concision: “If I let go of being right/ Can you let go of trying to win?” Rita Wilson at Café Carlyle 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z Out of that mishmash, the lines that float to the surface are often the ones most charged with meaning, both emotionally and musically, often with a self-contained aphoristic quality. The lost art of memorizing poetry 2014-04-27T00:00:00Z Her language, as always, is keenly aphoristic, with a rich undertow of implicit passion. Feminist icon Vivian Gornick, still in the fight: A conversation with Jonathan Lethem 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z Among the many aphoristic sayings in the book, there is one that I remember to this day: “We are born as verbs and not as nouns.” Han Ong on Straying into Topicality 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z The mercurial comedy of Wilder’s flamboyantly aphoristic script shows them to be more or less clueless—except for one thing. The Goofball Criminals of Paul Schrader’s “Dog Eat Dog” 2016-11-12T05:00:00Z The first short chapter of Pride and Prejudice begins with a grand generalisation about the sexual allure of money and ends with an aphoristic character assassination that is hilarious because of its savagery. The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things by Paula Byrne – review 2013-01-17T11:03:01Z A fragmentary, aphoristic examination of night in all its illuminating darkness from a Lebanese-American poet who is also an admired visual artist. The Best Poetry of 2016 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z The novel, composed of brief sections, has a philosophical, aphoristic air: “In the logic of the sick person, of the idiot, the mad, everything is about to fall into place.” Smith Henderson’s ‘Fourth of July Creek,’ and More 2014-05-28T04:00:00Z As in the "letter" poems, a collage of images and quotations replaces an earlier technique of images linked along lines of philosophical, often aphoristic, argument. Poem of the week: The Seasons by Derek Mahon 2011-03-07T11:09:38Z “In the Book Of” gets sticky by conferring near-sainthood on the unfailingly wise, patient and aphoristic Anisah, and broadly painting Gail’s followers as not merely misguided, but a pack of rabid yahoos. ‘In the Book Of’ asks how we welcome strangers to our shores 2014-04-02T22:40:15Z Spare, suggestive and aphoristic, the work’s 15 brief movements form a profound meditation on death and loss, closing with a hymn-like movement that ends — almost heartbreakingly — in mid-phrase. An energetic evening with the Musicians From Marlboro at the Freer Gallery It’s a remarkably extended fusillade of aphoristic provocation and insight, inspired in part by the death of his son. ‘The Glorious American Essay,’ From Benjamin Franklin to David Foster Wallace 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z Her script is filled with sharp moments of aphoristic insight and powerful yet fleeting emotional spikes—and her own extraordinary performance is one of her prime inventions. Juleen Compton, a Director and Actor Whose Career Was Tragically Overlooked 2019-06-19T04:00:00Z In Hinduism and Buddhism, it is the term given to a collection of aphoristic verses linked by a common theme. Sutra | Dance review 2010-03-17T22:00:00Z The aphoristic last lines are a little lesson on humility. Poem of the week: What mystery pervades a well! by Emily Dickinson 2010-10-04T09:21:00Z Dense, challenging, aphoristic and swarming with recondite allusions and puns, these novels display an authoritative grasp of a breathtaking range of subjects. Notes From the Book Review Archives 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z Her aphoristic distillation of capitalism, racism, misogyny and other cultural blights defines a certain kind of progressive thinking that is common in large tracts of the arts world. Perspective | As the art world reopens, will the change be genuine? This critic is looking in some unlikely places. 2021-06-09T04:00:00Z Martin Amis, who has little time for Vidal the novelist, recognised the glory of the witty, learned, aphoristic essays. The A-Z of Gore Vidal 2012-08-01T19:00:06Z Beneath the aphoristic, agitprop terseness of many of the songs lurk multiple allusions to the great lieder composers of the 19th century. Maltman/Drake – review 2013-06-02T16:00:02Z The results are alternately — or sometimes simultaneously — profound, hysterical, saccharine, aphoristic, rhapsodic, loopy and unhinged, a kind of timeless-yet-woke Generation Alpha version of Charles Schulz’s “The Doctor Is In.” In Search of the Meaning of Life? Meet Me at the Monkey Bars. 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z It’s a survey of the thoughts and dark quips of the Danish philosopher and his ilk, like Nietzsche, Schopenhauer and others, combined with Thacker’s own aphoristic thoughts on the subject. 8 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z Ranging over themes of love and loss, the natural world and spirituality, his work was prized by readers for its gentle accessibility while being condemned by many critics as facile, tepid and aphoristic. Rod McKuen, Prolific Poet and Lyricist, Dies at 81 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z His elemental folk-rock tunes are equipped with rough, scrawled lyrics that reach for the primal and the personal at the same time in a language that is both aphoristic and enigmatic. Movie Review: Jonathan Demme’s ‘Neil Young Journeys’ 2012-06-28T23:29:53Z Why does Nietzsche write in such an unusual, more aphoristic style? Who was Nietzsche? 2012-10-01T11:45:00Z It’s unusual because it’s less aphoristic, but rather three essays. Who was Nietzsche? 2012-10-01T11:45:00Z His best writing has always had an aphoristic quality, and that’s true here. Books of The Times: A Cautious Memoirist Who Ends With a Laugh 2011-05-10T20:49:38Z These two short books are part of a projected trilogy, and together they’re already a serious achievement: dense, aphoristic, philosophically acute novels that read like Iris Murdoch thrice distilled. Review: Rachel Cusk’s ‘Transit’ Offers Transcendent Reflections 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z Individual titles resemble those of parables — “The Deal,” “The New Man” — as if to telegraph their aphoristic plots. New Story Collections Reconsider History and Upend Tradition 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z Cash and Delaney are both given to brief, aphoristic comments that provide added insight into who they are. A Beautiful Mind 2021-10-08T04:00:00Z Besides, years ago, I had enjoyed some of Schopenhauer’s literary essays — “On Authorship,” “On Style”— and been particularly taken with his lively, aphoristic prose and his advocacy of clarity, simplicity and brevity when we write. Review | ‘On the Suffering of the World’ sounds depressing, but perhaps it is a call to action, too 2021-01-13T05:00:00Z While the witty wordplay and aphoristic metaphysical musings that dominate the dialogue can be often amusing, sometimes profound, the play’s self-conscious navel-gazing starts to feel glib, even predictable, partway into the two-hour piece. ‘Middletown’ at ACT: A little Thornton Wilder, a little Beckett 2013-09-09T21:26:13Z While some critics faulted Mr. Rakoff’s writing as overly aphoristic, many praised his singular style, which combined an amiable dyspepsia with an almost palpable undercurrent of melancholy. David Rakoff, Award-Winning Humorist, Dies at 47 2012-08-10T15:50:38Z His fans can exit the theater after one of his plays with a heady feeling of freedom, stoic and ready for life, ignited by his aphoristic wit and two hours’ traffic with the Big Questions. It’s Tom Stoppard’s World and We Don’t Live in It 2021-02-24T05:00:00Z Whether being allusive, ironic, aphoristic or downright playful, Eliot shows the full power of her intellectual arsenal. Epigraphs: opening possibilities | Toby Lichtig 2010-03-30T12:00:00Z Liszt's aphoristic thoughts on desire and God had a drastic simplicity, as if both passion and virtuosity were all spent. Boesch/Martineau ? review 2011-04-04T21:00:01Z And whether you agree with that aphoristic decree or not, given that the lady owned several stylishly idiosyncratic homes over the years, she was writing from experience. 12 Stunning Entrance Halls 2014-08-25T04:00:00Z Our critic Dwight Garner wrote that the books are “already a serious achievement: dense, aphoristic, philosophically acute novels that read like Iris Murdoch thrice distilled.” 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z “The greatest thing since sliced bread” became the aphoristic stand-in for superb American innovation for good reason. The Not-So-Dumb Objects That Smartphones Have Led Us to Ignore 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z Tallis unpicks the problems with all the various philosophers' arguments, in particular with reference to possibilities – "call no event future until it is past" is his aphoristic solution – while offering other, deeper approaches to time. In Defence of Wonder and Other Philosophical Reflections by Raymond Tallis – review 2012-07-06T21:55:07Z In “Death on Three-Mile Creek,” Christopher Mayo resourcefully evoked Appalachian folk styles, New Orleans funeral marches and the shifting pulses of drum ’n’ bass electronica in setting aphoristic eulogies by Jonathan Williams. Music Review: A Star Brings Singers and Composers Together 2011-04-18T21:33:29Z With urbane wit, and often in a colloquial or aphoristic tone, he investigated the relationships between art, reality, death, suffering and language. Peter Porter obituary 2010-04-23T16:54:00Z The chapters are short; the tone is aphoristic; the eye for cultural and social detail is Tom Wolfe-like. In Jennifer Egan’s New Novel, Our Memories Are Available for All to See 2022-03-29T04:00:00Z You'll catch a hint of it in Moss Roses in a Vase, one of those beautifully aphoristic flower pictures made during Manet's long final illness. From Paris: A Taste for Impressionism, Paintings from the Clark – review 2012-07-07T23:05:18Z The first piece is mysterious, almost aphoristic, just tentative piano chords and a quizzical violin line. Music Review: Augustin Hadelich and Charles Owen at Frick Collection 2013-12-09T21:56:59Z They are big fans of pithy, aphoristic wisdom, and are united in their contempt for those who can’t fit their thoughts about God onto a book jacket. Why do we let New Atheists and religious zealots dominate the conversation about religion? 2015-04-25T04:00:00Z As he writes, in his book’s final chapter — a list of 40 aphoristic takeaways — “Institutions and businesses do not create musical innovations; they just recognize them after the fact.” Review | A celebration of the outsiders and outcasts who have made music great 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z Mr. Sheed acknowledged that the second rule — to avoid too many “short aphoristic dismissals unless your taste in them is absolutely infallible” — was the “complete opposite” of the first. ArtsBeat: A New Honor for the Hatchet Job 2012-01-30T20:18:52Z The book’s flowery tone can occasionally distract, but its aphoristic philosophy is timeless. ‘Me Before You,’ by Jojo Moyes, and More 2012-12-26T20:50:12Z As in his earlier operas, Mr. Sciarrino writes here in a compositional language that has been aptly described as aphoristic. Music Review: Salvatore Sciarrino?s ?Porta Della Legge,? After Kafka 2010-07-21T21:23:00Z You start to long for a narrative, something less aphoristic and brief. Music Review: Astringent Modernist Meets Instrument of Old 2011-03-08T21:21:07Z All became the grist for her dark satire, laced with wry, aphoristic asides on the human condition. Fay Weldon, British Novelist Who Challenged Feminist Orthodoxy, Dies at 91 2023-01-04T05:00:00Z The writers of aphoristic treacle are no more innocent than the purveyors of sugary drinks. Review | Paulo Coelho’s ‘The Archer’ aims for profundity but misses 2020-11-11T05:00:00Z There is the tendency also to extract seemingly plain aphoristic nostrums from essays or works of fiction with manifestly ironical intent. The Sharp Force and Disgraceful State of the Modern Aphorism 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z That’s nothing new: For decades, Davis has specialized in aphoristic stories that thrive on wordplay, rhythm and irony while avoiding easy sarcasm or dad jokes. How to skewer life's absurdities while thumbing your nose at Amazon 2023-10-04T04:00:00Z Home being aphoristically the place when you go there they have to take you in, Sully does, but it’s an uneasy reunion. Review: 'Sullivan's Crossing' on the CW is a pleasant import from the makers of 'Virgin River' 2023-10-04T04:00:00Z His grandmother became the guiding force of his childhood, telling aphoristic stories, instilling manners and morals and always encouraging education. Vartan Gregorian, transformative civic leader and tireless educator, dies at 87 2021-04-16T04:00:00Z It appears to be an aphoristic stone nicely polished by being handled by a lot of people. So fascism came to America — but what was it wearing? 2020-12-20T05:00:00Z By 1963, the aphoristic couplet about the best and the worst was enough of a cliche to irritate the critic Raymond Williams. 'Things fall apart': the apocalyptic appeal of WB Yeats's The Second Coming 2020-05-30T04:00:00Z Over 157 pages, Dalio shares his insights, a five-point system for assessing our weaknesses and overcoming problems, and somewhat hokey aphoristic formulae like Dreams + Reality + Determination = A Successful Life and Pain + Reflection = Progress. 'It's not fair, it's not productive': the billionaire investor urging capitalism to reform 2020-02-09T05:00:00Z Sarah Manguso’s “300 Arguments,” a work of aphoristic nonfiction, is a slim volume that packs a punch. Joan Didion and more: 5 L.A. book talks this week 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z Much like “Keep calm and carry on”, today’s aphoristic exhortations insist that we ignore grim realities and continue our pursuit of narrow self-interest, with a dash of hopelessness. Kylie Jenner has found three little words that sum up our age of anxiety | Jean Hannah Edelstein 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z Lessons are delivered in the aphoristic style popular in military and business cultures. Review | From Jim Mattis, leadership lessons and a love letter to Marine ‘grunts’ 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z He wrote a dozen books, of increasingly idiosyncratic character, poised between philosophy, aphoristic cultural criticism, polemic, and autobiography. Nietzsche’s Eternal Return 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z The aphoristic saying falls from the teacher’s lips, and gets written down and repeated and then shared. The Art of Aphorism 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z His talk is crisply aphoristic and irrigated with an easy flow of statistics: each proposition has its instantly associated number. Can We Live Longer but Stay Younger? 2019-05-13T04:00:00Z It offers a series of voices, alternately aphoristic and expository. Kaveh Akbar: “The Palace” 2019-04-19T04:00:00Z This giant mosquito species, affectionately known as ’gallinipper,′ infamously delivers a memorable bite that aphoristically “nips a gallon of your blood.” Mosquito-borne diseases get a boost from climate change 2019-03-30T04:00:00Z Alter’s work reaches the heights when simple yet strange English is called for, with Hebraic bluntness becoming aphoristic compression. How to Read the Good Books 2019-01-21T05:00:00Z And so, by this process, the aphorism properly so called is by now backing up into its cousin, aphoristic prose, which certainly has kept a living presence in criticism and reviewing. The Art of Aphorism 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z Some of these riffs, which themselves tend toward the aphoristic, are as short as a couple of sentences. “Flights,” a Novel That Never Settles Down 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z In Ball's unadorned, aphoristic prose, the meetings stand like self-contained fables, and together these fables tell us much about the son, the people he meets and the society they form. Jesse Ball's 'Census' is an understated tale of a father and son taking stock of America 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z On virtually every page it is colourful, funny and pointedly aphoristic. Books of the Year 2017 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z But as aphoristically artful as that comment was, it didn’t prevent a lot of people from being bored. Don't call Erin Hills a pushover just yet - Golf Digest 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z It may be that all the aphoristic kinds—from the blunt saying to the polished epigram—run together in critical prose, where they are weapons in the struggle rather than heads mounted on the wall. The Art of Aphorism 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z That aphoristic introduction hints at the genial wit and scientific flair that await in Marcus Chown's primer on gravity, which traces the historic arc of our understanding of the force. Books in brief : Nature : Nature Research 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z In pages of aphoristic, questioning prose, she considers her sense of self – attenuated at times – and the role of fiction-writing in her life, as both her consuming love and a necessary engagement with troubling emotions. Yiyun Li: ‘I used to say that I was not an autobiographical writer – that was a lie’ 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z Television was the medium that best conveyed her earthy, approachable glamour. She was a born guest, and a guest star, propulsively talkative, blithely self-revealing, casually aphoristic. Zsa Zsa Gabor: An independent woman who elevated her fabulous self into the celebrity stratosphere 2016-12-19T05:00:00Z With the help of her sister Victoria Wilson, then an editor at Knopf, Spellman-Silverman transformed Babitz’s brilliant aphoristic LA essays into her second book and possible masterpiece, Slow Days, Fast Company. Eve Babitz: return of the LA woman 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z The best writers of aphoristic prose—G. K. Chesterton, Clive James—use the aphorism as comic relief on the climb, more than as the summit itself. The Art of Aphorism 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z Turning aphoristic, Justice Breyer mused about how people dress to express themselves. In a Copyright Case, Justices Ponder the Meaning of Fashion 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z Phillips is a psychoanalyst and writer known for his incisive and aphoristic writing on psychotherapy and life. The Art of Vulgarity 2016-08-15T04:00:00Z Quignard—a novelist and essayist of an oblique, aphoristic bent—writes: When Music Is Violence 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z The letters, the poems, the public life of the time are all equally aphoristic, sharing this fixed sum of narrative capital. A Point of View: How much longer can sprawling TV box sets get? - BBC News 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z The book proceeds in sparse, aphoristic fragments, almost like prose poems. Dear Diary, I Hate You 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z An aphoristic, weird work of literary criticism, Reality Hunger argues that to survive, the novel must become less like itself, to just stop with the whole plot-character-theme business. Does Fiction Need to Become Less ... Fictional? They talk almost aphoristically about the human condition, ghosts, time, evil, love, and other heavy but abstract things, and they quote Dylan Thomas a few too many times. Interstellar review 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z He added, aphoristically, “We are all first responders.” The Doomsday Preppers of New York 2013-01-26T05:02:42Z The mass of information in every department of knowledge which Voltaire, for instance, had at his disposal was immense; but the working out and application of it were strongly hasty, aphoristic, and frivolous. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, November 1879 2012-04-25T02:01:12.830Z On the other, the aphoristically formulated doctrine pullulates with inconsistencies imported from theology. Socialism: Utopian and Scientific 2012-03-26T02:00:37.300Z In the form of, or of the nature of, an aphorism; in the form of short, unconnected sentences; as, an aphoristic style. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z If Beethoven ever looked into his works, he cannot be said to have read them; they were too aphoristic and enigmatical for his taste. Life of Beethoven 2012-03-12T03:00:21.693Z The play combines love intrigues, as absurd as those usual in contemporary plays, with lucid declamation and aphoristic moralizing. Tragedy 2012-01-31T03:00:19.343Z In his typically “aphoristic” style, Mr. Church wrote, “The goal of life is to live in such a way that our lives will prove worth dying for.” Bookshelf: Books on a Pastor?s Odyssey, a Politician and Urban Gardens 2012-01-28T05:05:09Z His most eminent scholars were Pabst, doctor of medicine in Vienna, who gave clear expositions of his master's dark and aphoristic sayings, and Veith, who popularized his teachings in sermons and practical treatises. Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 2011-09-14T02:00:43.813Z He is aphoristically comic, if I may use the phrase. The Complete Works of Josh Billings 2011-07-01T02:00:13.387Z His works are very clear in style, though aphoristic rather than systematic in the treatment of subjects. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" 2011-06-19T02:00:16.580Z His humour is of a quieter kind, more aphoristically comic, than the fun and drollery of the “delicious Artemus,” as Charles Reade styles the Showman. William Blake A Critical Essay 2011-05-04T02:00:18.110Z “All the world love the lover,” says Emerson, and Tisha could certify to this aphoristic truth, for who more humble than Tisha? The Squatter and the Don 2011-03-27T02:00:13.400Z It contains in an aphoristic form the main doctrines of the longer work. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z "Luke" either knew the collection of loosely-connected and aphoristic utterances which appear under the name of the "Sermon on the Mount" in "Matthew;" or he did not. Essays Upon Some Controverted Questions 2010-12-20T17:12:31.233Z To his critics, Mr. Rosen responded with the kind of aphoristic wit for which he was known. Moishe Rosen, 78, Dies; Founder of Jews for Jesus 2010-05-22T05:31:00Z In this department, the observations of the great philosopher are often minute, and generally accurate, although usually too aphoristic and unconnected to be of much use to the student. Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History Often bright aphoristic sayings occur which are likely to print themselves on the memory of the reader. The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus To supersede the trashy works of Fergusson and Kelly was the reason why Ramsay set himself to gather up the wealth of aphoristic wisdom that lay manna-like on all sides of him. Allan Ramsay Famous Scots Series To sum up in the aphoristic form the secrets affecting the motives of the greatest dramatic successes of the English stage, we can, I think, partially agree on one more canon: XV. The Galaxy, April, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—April, 1877.—No. 4. Such dissimilar matters, coming from all quarters, were melted down into this vast body of aphoristic knowledge. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 He understood that her playfulness did but conceal fine qualities of character that would have pleased even the aphoristic moralist, whose conception of the ideal woman she mercilessly outraged. Cleo The Magnificent Or, the Muse of the Real An attentive consideration of the above circumstances leads me to certain conclusions which I shall now state aphoristically, and proceed to describe in more detail. Notes and Queries, Number 236, May 6, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc Lydia and I were congratulating ourselves that no one could understand this rude diatribe when we noticed, at the next table, our acquaintance of Langeais, Lydia's aphoristic Frenchman, if I may coin a word. In Château Land But I wonder if I am aphoristic and subtle? Free Air Short aphoristic chapters will therefore best answer the purpose. The Jewish State Their presentation of the more horrible stories of Greek tragedy, their rhetorical and aphoristic style, their moralizing and their psychology, were all greatly admired. The Facts About Shakespeare On the other, the aphoristically formulated doctrine swarms with theological inconsistencies. Selected Essays The pointed and aphoristic form of the thought is due to Bacon; the thought itself has, however, been traced by Dr. Whewell to Giordano Bruno. Notes and Queries, Number 58, December 7, 1850 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. 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 It is not aphoristic, but flows along in a light sparkling stream. History of English Humour, Vol. 2 These led to deeper thought, to the aphoristic wisdom of the seven wise men, and the speculations of those who were in due time to raise laughter at the follies of mankind. History of English Humour, Vol. 1 With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour And if we compare Vauvenargues with any of our English aphoristic writers, there is not resemblance enough to make the contrast instructive. Critical Miscellanies (Vol 2 of 3) Essay 1: Vauvenargues It contains pithy aphoristic sentences which Burke himself would not have disowned. MacMillan & Co.'s General Catalogue of Works in the Departments of History, Biography, Travels, and Belles Lettres, December, 1869 But in addition there is much wisdom and a remarkable power of casting his observations into a compact, aphoristic form. A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature Dodsley's principal work was the "Economy of Human Life," written in an aphoristic style, and ascribed to Lord Chesterfield. History of English Humour, Vol. 2 Also I supplied the published work with an imposing framework consisting of a preface, an appendix called The Revolutionist's Handbook, and a final display of aphoristic fireworks. Back to Methuselah Each one, orphaned & aphoristic, deep into his sixties. Unmanned But when we turn from the aphoristic proverbs of the people to the aphoristic maxims of the wise, a deep distinction and contrast confront us. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 64, February, 1863 Howe's Monthly—and began to pour forth the stream of aphoristic honesty which makes him easily first among the rural sages. Contemporary American Novelists (1900-1920) These initial and final sentences— often in themselves both aphoristic and memorable—serve to mark with the utmost clearness the different stages in the progress of the essay. Composition-Rhetoric His aphoristic sayings are the least important part of him, but here are one or two examples:— "Eminent posts make great men greater, and little men less." Studies in Literature "No, do not be brilliant and aphoristic, Manuel, for I want you to help me more practically in this matter." Figures of Earth He is a master of the aphoristic style. English Literature: Modern Home University Library of Modern Knowledge Would it not have been quite as sagacious, and equally aphoristic, if the President had said, "Where a proclamation cannot go, the Constitution never can again"? The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862 Bacon intended that his reforming principles should accrue to the benefit of practical philosophy also, but gave only aphoristic hints to this end. History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time Putting Bacon aside, the condensed force and poignant brevity of whose aphoristic wisdom has no parallel in English, there is no other prosaist who possesses anything like Milton's command over the resources of our language. Milton Almost every aphoristic phrase that he has made current is borrowed from some one of the classics, like his famous "License they mean when they cry liberty," from Tacitus. Among My Books Second Series It is always vigorous and direct, often pointed and aphoristic, never merely suggestive, never given to half statement, and never obscure. English Literature: Modern Home University Library of Modern Knowledge I wish profoundly that I had made during his life, as I ought to have done, a proper collection of Townsend's aphoristic and sensational sayings. The Adventure of Living : a Subjective Autobiography Let me answer them here after a somewhat aphoristic fashion. Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence The Preludes are, in their aphoristic brevity, masterpieces of the first rank. Chopin : the Man and His Music Six years later Lessing's pamphlet on the Education of the Human Race appeared, couched in the form of aphoristic statements, and to a modern reader, one may venture to say, singularly wanting in argumentative force. The Idea of Progress An inguiry into its origin and growth The aphoristic nature of such tasks as those set you by this Goethe celebration must involuntarily be transferred to the artistic production, which therefore cannot attain to perfect warmth. Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt — Volume 1 Make the tree good, our Lawgiver aphoristically said. Bunyan Characters (3rd Series) Vernon had to fall back upon Greek and Latin aphoristic shots at the sex to believe it. The Egoist In single, aphoristic things we never attain repose; only in a great whole is great power self- contained, strong, and therefore, in spite of all excitement, reposeful. Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt — Volume 1 |
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