aphorism

As Filippo La Porta has noted, because of the Young Cannibals' mimesis of pop culture, they might be better defined as "moralists, as analysts of social mores, anthropologists, aphorists, essayists" rather than creative writers (72).

On the other hand, he overwrites, to a point where the reader begins to pine for the brilliant French aphorists of yesteryear who could capture in one sentence what takes Zemmour page after page.

(10) Just as aphorists may be forced to reconsider a common adage, and scientists obliged to reevaluate the permanency of extinction, de-extinction illustrates how policymakers need to reformulate legal frameworks governing natural resources to be less dependent on simplistic dualisms in favor of cautious risk assessment that recognizes the dynamism of nature and humanity's indivisibility from it.

Yet her mode of reading in the early chapters often renders authors aphorists themselves, as when, again in the course of less than a page (46), we speed through Elyot, Vives, Sidney, and Forset, each of whom is represented synecdochally by a choice (and they are always choice) quotation.

Geary's Guide to the World's Great Aphorists, The Week, AGNI,

Rounding out the Top 10 recommendations, with five votes each, were "Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith" by Rob Bell, "The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir" by Bill Bryson, "Geary's Guide to the World's Great Aphorists" by James Geary and, of course, "Listening is an Act of Love" from the Storycorps Project, edited by Dave Isay.