Collectively these art works redress calligraphy's historical emphases on epigrams, language purity, and expressive brushstrokes, finding other validating criteria for this ancient art form.
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Shapely sentences, sparkling epigrams, brilliant dialogue chased nimbly through her travailing brain.
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They too condensed insights into maxims, riddles and gnomic sayings, or epigrams about prudent living and shrewd, insightful public decisions.
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Individuals certainly differ greatly in their preferred constructions, especially those prefabricated ones, be they cliches, epigrams, pause fillers, or whatever.
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It is very distinctive, marked by a heavy use of paradoxes and epigrams.
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They start to talk to one another in epigrams.
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Here we have theepigramof evil resolution, a musical image of the irreversibility, the un-undoability of acts.
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Often it follows the exact contours of words: but it is the meaning of the words, not the phonetic structure, that theepigramseeks to memorise, to freeze.
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Anepigramis not an episode in a symphonic development but a unit of music theatre, in which music objectifies itself into something abrupt, hieroglyphic, legible.
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Jackson has a nice turn of phrase and produces epigrams to be savoured.
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Epigramdoes not currently support imperative features.
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That is a goodepigram, but the negation of democracy by discussion.
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I would take only one of his epigrams—if one can call them that.
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I do not want to over-simplify things or become unfair, but the facts spoil many of those epigrams.
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The well-knownepigram, "only connect", catches something of the ironies which lie behind today's debate.
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