(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.
Nomic
Definition:
(a.) Customary; ordinary; -- applied to the usual English spelling, in distinction from strictly phonetic methods.
(n.) Nomic spelling.
Example Sentences:
(1) He adds that there's plenty of other factors alarming the financial markets: Indeed, one has to observe that the current bout of turmoil has never been purely dictated by Fed policy concerns, even if they were 'primus inter pares', but also by concerns about the efficacy of Abe-nomics... a renewed focus on the Eurozone's woes and, of course a generalized collection of doubts about the global economy, above all the faltering pace of growth in major developing economies, above all China.
(2) Systematic cultural differences and differences in psychological environment among races and among sociocco-nomic groups vitiate any attempt to draw from IQ data meaningful inferences about genetic differences.
(3) Whether this attempt will ever be considered worthwhile remains pri marily a matter of policy and eco nomics.