| Life teaches elliptically, epigrammatically, retrospectively. |
| I have had the honour, by a coincidence of which I am proud, to have made a remark, similar in effect, though not so epigrammatically expressed. |
| First, Tocqueville wrote in an epigrammatically abstract style. |
| Conceptismo was characterized by its use of striking metaphors, expressed either concisely and epigrammatically or elaborated into lengthy conceits. |
| This must have stung the Secretary when he read the press reports, not only because it was so epigrammatically pointed but also because it was so devastatingly accurate. |
| To put it epigrammatically, the totality of the modern state seems to require unconditional surrender as a necessary correlative of its total wars. |
