The gnomic title suggests the bargain that V made: the act that momentarily unified her with others permanently singled her out.

NEWYORKER: Southern Discomfort

Which is, as the FT points out, why the ECB pronouncements on the subject end up being even more gnomic than usual.

FORBES: Eurozone: The ECB's Basic Problem

His statements on the issue have so far been rather gnomic.

ECONOMIST: The Senate turns away America's carmakers empty-handed

Virgil Cole (Ed Harris) and his deputy, Everett Hitch (Viggo Mortensen), are guns for hire in the Old West longtime partners who communicate mainly with glances, nods, a few gnomic words, and a deepening stillness that suddenly explodes into violence.

NEWYORKER: Appaloosa