This quick pace -- epigrammatic observation followed by witty banter followed by pithy explication -- continues nearly uninterrupted throughout the book, which is entirely devoid of filler or flat exposition.
While short poems are most associated with the haiku, the emergence of microblogging sites in the 21st century created a modern venue for epigrammatic verse.
He reads the movie as a form of romance whose allure is centered in the characters' nonnaturalistic discourse, wise-guy literate, media-smart, obscenely epigrammatic.
Her major preoccupations -- humanist, feminist, political, literary -- unfold in a minor key in the choice, epigrammatic language of the short-story form.
