apophthegm การใช้

Scholars have labeled this method of narration an apophthegm, chreia or pronouncement story.
This failure of the government was underlined by his own legendary apophthegm : " Who's governing this country ?"
He also wrestled with the prospect that someday he might face an RAF fighter in combat over Palestine . ( A possibility which, fortunately, never presented itself . ) " I remembered E . M . Forster's apophthegm that if he ever had to choose between cause and country, " wrote Levett, " he hoped he would have the guts to choose the cause ."
He rates Alfred the Great beside Charlemagne as a man of letters : " Alfred endeavoured to convey his morality by apologues, parables, stories, apophthegms, couched in poetry; and besides propagating among his subjects, former compositions of that kind, which he found in the Saxon tongue, he exercised his genius in inventing works of a like nature, as well as in translating from the Greek the elegant fables of Aesop.
The Vizier delights in the use of proverbs, boasting that Calormene culture is " full of choice apophthegms and useful maxims . " Rabadash, on the other hand, has no such appreciation and complains, " I have had maxims and verses flung at me all day and I can endure them no more . " When the Vizier begins yet another proverb, " Gifted was the poet who said . . . ", Rabadash stifles him with a threatened kick.