apothegmatic

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Adjective
  • This Side of the Island is a more concise and conceptual effort, compared to his last full-length, 2020’s The Loves of Your Life, which is a masterpiece of musical storytelling.
    Frank DiGiacomo, Billboard, 10 Mar. 2025
  • Keeping prices down Bartell, who is the president of Bartell Hotels and the chairman of the San Diego Tourism Marketing District, attributes the extended success of Humphreys to a concise plan.
    George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • As a result, his answers are brief and not all that stimulating.
    Kevin Kurz, The Athletic, 14 Mar. 2025
  • The brief hearing, which focused on thorny jurisdictional issues, drew hundreds of demonstrators to the federal courthouse in lower Manhattan to denounce the Saturday arrest of Khalil, a permanent U.S. resident who is married to an American citizen.
    arkansasonline.com, arkansasonline.com, 13 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Organized labor wanted to institute procedural reforms to ensure that officers were given opportunities to correct bad behavior before being let go—no more summary firings.
    Marc J. Dunkelman, TIME, 27 Feb. 2025
  • Sure enough, the summary destruction of that lonely Russian tank became fodder for the Phoenix drone group’s social media team.
    David Axe, Forbes, 16 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Though its action is depicted crisply and clearly, its epigrammatic shots aim straight for the viewer’s unconscious, making only glancing contact with the rational mind.
    Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2024
  • Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell (1791) The best and most entertaining biography ever written in English — addictive for its prescient, informal, racy prose and Johnson's epigrammatic precision and enduring decency.
    The Week Staff, The Week, 20 Mar. 2023
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“Apothegmatic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/apothegmatic. Accessed 20 Mar. 2025.

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