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Example sentences for: epigrams

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In my own case, writing epigrams may be a congenital defect, since it was my father's preferred style in several of his books.
Consistent with Sorokin's cyclical theory of social change, our time bears an uncanny resemblance to the first century A.D. when a Roman named Martial was penning his epigrams.
The difference is that these earlier forms were inclined to take themselves seriously, while epigrams or aphorisms are more frequently reflexive and satirical.
As Roger Wescott has shown (in a 1980 article), epigrams also evolved from proverbs and adages.
Although epigrams are usually sorted into content categories, I am going to attempt a semantic and structural taxonomy.