(n.) A short poem treating concisely and pointedly of a single thought or event. The modern epigram is so contrived as to surprise the reader with a witticism or ingenious turn of thought, and is often satirical in character.
(n.) An effusion of wit; a bright thought tersely and sharply expressed, whether in verse or prose.
(n.) The style of the epigram.
Example Sentences:
(1) He has just released a new album, Epigrams and Interludes .
(2) Anna Karenina set out to be a tract against adultery in high society; "Vengeance is mine and I will repay," is the epigram on the novel's title page.
(3) "Bratza takes issue with the apparently resentful epigram coined by the late supreme court justice Lord Rodger: "Argentoratum locutum: iudicium finitum – Strasbourg has spoken, the case is closed".
(4) The play opens with a great comic tour de force as Lord Are attempts to have himself arranged by his servant in the manner of a Gainsborough painting so that he might appear at home in the countryside, all the time spouting epigrams worthy of Oscar Wilde: "A poem should be well cut and fit the page ... the secret of literary style lies in the margins."
(5) I don't know if the closing ceremony will quote those other indelible lines from Shakespeare's great valedictory play, The Tempest , to bookend the opening epigram, but you can't help feeling it should: "Our revels now are ended.
(6) On one level, we all know this stuff already - it's been codified as myths, proverbs, clichés, bromides, epigrams, parables: the skeleton of every great story.
(7) But these days, he is full of epigrams about looking on the bright side and some of his phrases feel as worn down as an ocean-tossed pebble, smoothed through years of repetition to reporters, his family, himself: "You get what you get and you don't get upset", "It is what it is."
(8) Stephen Galilee (@SjGalilee) I am supporting #australiansforcoal because anti-coal activists waste a lot of time entertaining themselves with smart arse tweets about it April 14, 2014 But maybe Galilee should remember the often-invoked Oscar Wilde epigram about publicity .
(9) Very often inscriptions--above all grave epigrams--with their great tradition from various times and localities provide many good examples of daily life including valuable references to the practice, ethics and social situation of physicians.
(10) But for a while he spoke only in lapidary epigrams.
(11) It should please those who prefer to have their clichés masquerading as epigrams."
(12) His own vocabulary and the heavily weighted emphasis of his speech is so embedded in public consciousness that it has become a comic style as recognisable as an epigram from Oscar Wilde or a line from one of his other literary heroes, PG Wodehouse.
Monogram
Definition:
(n.) A character or cipher composed of two or more letters interwoven or combined so as to represent a name, or a part of it (usually the initials). Monograms are often used on seals, ornamental pins, rings, buttons, and by painters, engravers, etc., to distinguish their works.
(n.) A picture in lines; a sketch.
(n.) An arbitrary sign for a word.
Example Sentences:
(1) With this new equation a monogram is performed to calculate the cardiac output from the area given by the numerical integrator.
(2) I imagine that those who think protesting during the National Anthem is un-American think that the Boston Tea Party was a literal tea party with tiny cakes and monogrammed napkins.
(3) For several days, I left this letter to one side as I had more important matters to attend to, namely designing the monogram for my blazer.
(4) A recent post shows Bryan modelling a pair of blue-and-gold Just Cavalli leopardprint leggings and a Valentino clutch, the appeal of which, he explains, lies in having it " monogrammed with your initials ", making it, unusually for this loathsome day and age, where anyone can "pretty much get anything", "truly and only yours".
(5) Trenchcoats, monogrammed scarves and check blanket ponchos, all made in Britain, underpinned sales growth during the financial year ending 31 March.
(6) At the Louis Vuitton flagship store on the Champs Elysées, the Japanese tourists were jostling over the famous monogrammed leather bags like they were going out of fashion.
(7) 2 Monogrammed hankies But with different names on so you can help out a friend.
(8) Hjorth in his classic monogram "Eczematous Allergy to Balsams" emphasized that sensitization to balsam of Peru is most important since secondary allergens such as "fragrances" are ubiquitous.
(9) Fetal heart rate was measured by transvaginal Doppler ultrasound and compared with a monogram established from 75 fetuses.
(10) If you loved us, Gwynnie, you wouldn't taunt us with your £140 bespoke monogrammed table napkins .
(11) Electron micrographs of isolated human alpha(2)M-molecules, obtained by the negative contrast technique, revealed morphologically homogenous structures resembling a graceful monogram of the two letters H and I.
(12) Monograms were also made, allowing easy access to normal values.
(13) On arrival, protesters found many of his papers burnt, leaving his personalised golf bag and the towels monogrammed with his initials in the toilets as the most obvious signs of his earlier presence.
(14) When Monogram, his painted construction with an amiable stuffed angora goat encircled by a tyre, was exhibited in the Tate Gallery exhibition, Painting and Sculpture of a Decade 1954-64 (he had a one-man Whitechapel show the same year), it looked absolutely right, the subject of nice judgment, and totally unshocking.
(15) A decision to simplify the variety of trenchcoats on offer helped boost sales of the company’s classic British-made garment, along with Scottish-made scarves, which can now be monogrammed via online order for £75 on top of the £335 retail price.
(16) This value, referred to a monogram, may be used to assess the volume of blood impregnating the compresses, in relation to the pre-operative or present haematocrit of the patient, by direct reading.