Translations for „epigrammatic“ in the English » German Dictionary

epi·gram·mat·ic [ˌepɪgrəˈmætɪk, Am -pəgrəˈmæt̬-] ADJ

1. epigrammatic LIT:

epigrammatic

epigrammatisch form

2. epigrammatic (sharp-witted):

epigrammatic

kurz und treffend

epigrammatic

scharf pointiert

epigrammatic

epigrammatisch form

epigrammatic humour

scharfsinniger Humor

Examples from the PONS Dictionary (editorially verified)

epigrammatic humour

scharfsinniger Humor

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English

Not a sentence in it fails to be elegant; few sentences in it fail to be epigrammatic.

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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.

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Yet this frankness, often couched in epigrammatic wit and divided, as if by a chasm, from political correctness, feels unnervingly modern.

www.telegraph.co.uk

It aims less at clarity and vividness than at epigrammatic point.

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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.

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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.

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Her major preoccupations -- humanist, feminist, political, literary -- unfold in a minor key in the choice, epigrammatic language of the short-story form.

www.independent.co.uk

It mingles poems in the style of his first book with epigrammatic works and extended reveries in his mature style.

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The football industry comes wrapped in so much epigrammatic tough-guy rhetoric that you never really stop to think whether any of it makes sense.

deadspin.com

The narrative impulse races through long paragraphs, while a rhyme scheme insistently coagulates internal elements into epigrammatic quatrains.

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