(1) More than 2,000 years ago aphorist Publilius Syrus expressed precisely the same idea: "Debt is the slavery of the free", as did the Bible: "The rich rules over the poor and the borrower is the slave of the lender".
(2) Martin Amis, who has little time for Vidal the novelist, recognised the glory of the witty, learned, aphoristic essays.
(3) But that fine aphorist of late capitalism missed an efficiency saving.
(4) He writes in terse numbered paragraphs, following Nietzsche's aphoristic style.
(5) Is there anything else I can do to piss you off?” A picture of Obama with “Does this ass make my car look big?” The Republican style for 2016 is angry aphoristic humor.
Gnomic
Definition:
(a.) Alt. of Gnomical
Example Sentences:
(1) We have different values and allies,” Rogozin’s caption gnomically declared.
(2) 'Positive points are difficult to find today,' he said in that gnomic way of his that falls between irony and mischief.
(3) Centre stage was instead ceded to actor Shia LaBeouf whose only utterance was to repeat Eric Cantona's famously gnomic saying – "When seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea" – before walking out of the room, to the consternation of his fellow actors.
(4) For the second day running , Google Translate hasn't been able to cope with the gnomic utterances of Jock Wallace.
(5) "I'm sitting on the gnomic fence," said Jinny Blom, who has designed a sentimental garden of forget-me-nots and baby's tears plants for Prince Harry's Lesotho children's charity, Sentebale.
(6) Like David Byrne, Chaz Jankel and Jez Kerr, Dear is one of white funk's great declarers, raffishly making gnomic observations like a pitch-shifted James Mason.
(7) He is by no means the simpleton played by Peter Sellers in Being There, but, like Gardiner, every utterance, however gnomic, is now thought to contain a greater truth.
(8) All attempts to penetrate the veil of secrecy fail: the rare interviews he gives are pretty gnomic – a state of affairs compounded by his refusal to allow journalists to record their conversations .
(9) Rosa portrays himself melodramatically, and with a gnomic tablet saying that silence is the best policy.
(10) This essay on the last years of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's life exhibits all of Sebald's strengths as a writer – and all of his strange, gnomic, secretive foibles.
(11) Grimacing mystics guffing out plumes of gnomic "wisdom" while using their genitals as a mortar and pestle.
(12) "You've seen Bergerac ," my mother replied, gnomically, closing the conversation down, to my infinite confusion.
(13) But Wu Lyf resisted all advances, preferring instead to issue, via their website , gnomic utterances and enigmatic mission statements, written in a barely comprehensible language that suggested Wu Lyf – which stands for World Unite!
(14) Better known among her nearly 3.7 million Twitter followers for more gnomic 140-character missives – " You are water.
(15) Now the maverick electronic producer’s sixth studio album has a release date, an amusingly garbled press release and song titles that are gnomic in the extreme – tracks such as 4 bit 9d api+e+6 [126.26] suggest this won’t be an easy-listening affair with designs on the charts.
(16) Given the choice, they favour a gnomic utterance over plain speaking.
(17) For a band with such mainstream appeal, their lyrics are remarkably gnomic.
(18) Compared to her somewhat gnomic boss, she is a model of clarity.
(19) Mischievous and mysterious at all times, Jean-Luc Godard presented Cannes with his latest and possibly even last work, Film Socialism , playing in the Un Certain Regard category: it's a complex fragmented poem of a movie, flashing up on to the screen images, sequences, archive-reel material and, as ever with this film-maker, gnomic slogans and phrases, here in bold, sans-serif capitals, white on black.
(20) As they sent work-in-progress off to Fincher, who was on location in Europe, the director would respond with gnomic emails.