Thompson, like a lot of people in the sixties and seventies, interpreted Dylan's famous apothegm to mean that in order to be honest you must live outside the law. |
The 84-year-old unburdens himself of this apothegm with the foxy charm of the late French actor Charles Boyer. |
There was the resplendent 'Judgment in Heaven,' with the trenchant Elizabethan apothegm of its epilogue. |
At my request, one young Chinese woman wrote the apothegm with only a moment's hesitation. |
With this apothegm from the storehouse of her lately acquired wisdom, she passed to the next paragraph. |
An apothegm is a terse statement of what is plain or easily proved. |