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Both are brief and although the criticisms of Hegel are clearly intelligible, the statements constituting the “new philosophy” are often rhetorical and aphoristic, which is one of the reasons they are often judged to be unsatisfactory as philosophy.

Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach Harvey, Van A. 2007

He believed that in a world where visual language has overpowered the written word, narrative non-fiction could satisfy the need for reflective engagement more than any kind of aphoristic expression.

The Hindu - Front Page 2010

Ms. Hirliman fired off brief, aphoristic replies and taped them back up for all to see.

georgelle hirliman | writer in the window « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2010

The aphoristic last lines are a little lesson on humility.

Poem of the week: What mystery pervades a well! by Emily Dickinson Carol Rumens 2010

The fragments of concrete poetry that make up the bulk of Free Cell honor the rapid-fire plausibility of waking thought, which is to say the collection's often self-contained stanzas are by turns intimate, aphoristic, and incoherent -- but never less than truthful.

Seth Abramson: December 2011 Contemporary Poetry Reviews Seth Abramson 2011

Ms. Hirliman fired off brief, aphoristic replies and taped them back up for all to see.

March « 2010 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2010

He was quite as able to be terse and memorable when in conversation and, like Oscar Wilde (who was, like him, disconcertingly vast when seen at close quarters), seems seldom to have been off duty when it came to the epigrammatic and aphoristic.

Demons and Dictionaries 2009

Intriguing, but some of it borders on the tritely aphoristic.

August « 2009 « Squares of Wheat 2009

Here as elsewhere, Pennac's aphoristic style puts the ooh-la-la in Gallic shrug:

Giving Up Roger Sutton 2009

Here as elsewhere, Pennac's aphoristic style puts the ooh-la-la in Gallic shrug:

Archive 2009-03-01 Roger Sutton 2009