gnomic

After all, she was saying things that were definitely not gnomic.

But remarks like this go by too quickly; in the end, they're only gnomic.

Often he'll end a good passage with some grain of gnomic country wisdom.

Ponder looked up at the gnomic bulk of the machine.

Everybody else has to make do with gnomic little blurts of bad grammar.

Indeed, this idea struck her as being exactly one of those gnomic phrases that Peter was talking about.

Hesiod has also been considered the father of gnomic verse.

"It seems to me that you have just proved yourself to be the more gnomic of the two of us."

Her dances, like her stage presence, tend to be on the gnomic side.

Sam Smith was in the same exhibition and although his imagery can be gnomic at times he really does cut the mustard.

Used to describe a tense, the gnomic is considered neutral by not limiting action, in particular, to the past, present, or future.

"You'll be given a gnomic name, of course, unless your own is guttural enough.

The old gnomic words made Alexander laugh, but it was fanged laughter.

This gnomic accusation they couldn't get him to explain.

He has also begun to make gnomic remarks.

Another element, always present in the longer odes of victory, is that which may be called the "gnomic poetry".

The dances' gnomic titles and the frequently gnarled music offer little relief.

The gnomic philosophers depend on others to connect their irrelevancies with the real world.

The gnomic aorist expresses the way things generally happen, as in proverbs.

But Cornelius's only answer was a gnomic smile.

He struggled to understand her meaning, which seemed to him as gnomic as a koan.

It was daylight, as it appeared to gnomic eyes.

He was pretty gnomic by all accounts.

When he was among the revolutionaries, he kept this to himself, hiding behind gnomic responses.

Balanchine was famous for his gnomic observations about the connectedness of music and dance.