aphorist

Devotees of popular history will have met some of these stories in the work of Liza Picard, Witold Rybczynski, Daniel Boorstin and others, but it's hard to imagine a better synthesizer than Bryson, or a pithier aphorist.

Book review: 'At Home' by Bill Bryson Louis Bayard 2010

Devotees of popular history will have met some of these stories in the work of Liza Picard, Witold Rybczynski, Daniel Boorstin and others, but it's hard to imagine a better synthesizer than Bryson, or a pithier aphorist.

Book review: 'At Home' by Bill Bryson Louis Bayard 2010

I toyed with being an aphorist, but the mode can get a bit tiresome.

Excerpt from De Imitatio Calembouri 2010

We can do no better than conclude with the observation of the great aphorist Samuel Johnson:

:Acquired Taste Tim Stretton 2009

We can do no better than conclude with the observation of the great aphorist Samuel Johnson:

Archive 2009-02-01 Tim Stretton 2009

That's the difference between a comic-strip artist and an "aphorist."

Comic-Strip Tease Jaime J. Weinman 2009

Book critic Carlin Romano, who is also critic-at-large for the Chronicle of Higher Education (in which role he was a finalist last year for a Pulitzer in criticism), takes a look at that dubious aphorist, E.M. Cioran.

An Inquirer trifecta ... Frank Wilson 2006

As usual, Easy isn't much of a detective - his inquiries lead to a chain of suspicious characters who finger one another - but he could hardly be improved as a philosopher and aphorist.

Little Scarlet: Summary and book reviews of Little Scarlet by Walter Mosley. 2004

She had been a child apart from her earliest years, a whimsical, sometimes meltingly reflective aphorist.

Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

She had been a child apart from her earliest years, a whimsical, sometimes meltingly reflective aphorist.

Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005