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Although those epigrammatic sentences can be arresting—“Nothing is so firmly believed as that which a man knoweth least”—Montaigne doesn’t think epigrammatically.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 8, 2017

I spoke tersely, almost epigrammatically, but Briand has a good French brain and grasped the heart of the matter at once.

From Time Magazine Archive

As the somewhat declass� Lady Marjorie, she is epigrammatically but insistently prudish about her love affair with the brilliant, married lawyer who flayed her in the divorce court.

From Time Magazine Archive

Each Great Man was shrewdly, often epigrammatically, summed up in Beatrice Webb's diary.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was in vain that Don Alvarez reminded his son that the true Christian returns good for evil, and that, as he epigrammatically put it, 'Le vrai Dieu, mon fils, est un Dieu qui pardonne.'

From Books and Characters French and English by Strachey, Giles Lytton