(1) Even his private comments grew much more guarded as the work itself became increasingly gnomic and resistant to interpretation.(2) He did not go on to explain his position in any detail, but he did not have to; his neo-colonial patronisation illuminated despite his gnomic brevity.(3) This may seem impossibly gnomic , and it is certainly complicated to decipher, but its main arguments are clear enough.(4) Sporting a permanently pained expression and the hunched demeanour of a child expecting a smack, he speaks in gnomic aphorisms that frequently sound like bumper-sticker mottoes.(5) Any self-respecting philosopher ought to be prepared with some gnomic sayings that can bear several interpretations, at least some of them scandalous.(6) His style, too, is often tortuous and gnomic , and it can be almost impossible to see what he actually means, as the endless discussions of his analysis of the causes of the war show.(7) The neglect of the public realm was presided over and encouraged by an ossifying Conservative administration, while the Prince of Wales made gnomic pronouncements on the sidelines.(8) These gnomic texts serve as a kind of decentering device, forcing the viewer to abandon traditional notions of meaning and enter into Dittborn's symbolic world.(9) But he doesn't ramble or rant; instead, he suggests vast conceptual contradictions in gnomic , comic haikus.(10) Even more gnomic and less rewarding was those liner notes' unreadable amplification in his u2018novelu2019 - ah, remember when the term u2018novelu2019 conferred cachet?(11) In an introductory note to the teacher, he says wryly that u2018Much of the commentary has been kept sufficiently gnomic not to impede the teacher who wants to modify or dissent from it,u2019 and such a note is borne out by what follows.(12) In any case, there is always more entertainment to come, courtesy of Jose's gnomic post-match pronouncements.(13) As I approach the end of her post, the following gnomic thought pushes itself towards the front of my brain and refuses to budge: borders only delineate states of mind.(14) The meaning of this gnomic utterance still eludes me.(15) In The Approach, a mostly white painting with edges of yellow-gold, a mystical luminosity is supported by a gnomic title.(16) DeLillo's characters have often talked in epigrams or gnomic utterances; now these have a future-shock fatalism about them.
