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Aphoristically

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aph·o·rism  (f-rzm)
n.
1. A tersely phrased statement of a truth or opinion; an adage. See Synonyms at saying.
2. A brief statement of a principle.

[French aphorisme, from Old French, from Late Latin aphorismus, from Greek aphorismos, from aphorizein, to delimit, define : apo-, apo- + horizein, to delimit, define; see horizon.]

apho·rist n.
apho·ristic (-rstk) adj.
apho·risti·cal·ly adv.


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An other related concern that still continues to occupy a place of honor in studies dealing with issues of representations of the Holocaust is Theodore Adorno's famous, oft-contested and now repudiated dictum of the unrepresentability of the Holocaust, stated most aphoristically in his 1949 injunction, "to write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric," which he himself later came to retract in part.
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For Trujillo, this ghastly affair, which first earned him international opprobrium, is aphoristically justified: "great ills require great remedies" (p.
 
 
 
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