gnomically

On a conference call Monday, Standard & Poor's analyst John Chambers downplayed the move to AA-plus from AAA, saying, somewhat gnomically: "It's like going from indigo to navy blue."

Overheard 2011

Yet still, deluded fans insist that Miliband was not saying something embarrassingly obvious in his speech, but instead something that was almost gnomically profound.

Miliband states the politically obvious | Deborah Orr 2011

Mr. Deacon acknowledges that the form of sentience found in animals is different from that of humans but asserts somewhat gnomically that it is "a form of sentience built on sentience."

Rethinking Thinking Raymond Tallis 2011

It was there, in the interlude of a sickening few minutes -- between, as she gnomically scribbled it for the police, "man walked in" and "I told him not to, please" -- that her ordinary girlish preoccupations were suddenly overcome by mortal fear.

Jessica Stern's "Denial: A Memoir of Terror," reviewed by Marie Arana 2010

Dirty Duck writes gnomically: "Verity: "Let's continue with this King Lear theme.

What if Mandy Offered to Defect? 2007

All poets and philosophers and orators have used it and have attempted to explain things gnomically.

Essays and Miscellanies 2004

And when people ask me why, I always say gnomically "They're always different, always the same".

FallNews - anecdotes 1999

"Trying to control the home can be a form of eating disorder," Hopkinson tells me gnomically.

The Guardian World News Zoe Williams 2011

It pops up from time to time, gnomically doing the things that raccoons do, and little more.

The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed Ivor Tossell 2011

Zhou Enlai, replied gnomically: "It's too soon to say."

Politics news, UK and world political comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk Anthony Julius 2010