How To Use Sententious In A Sentence
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His summary of the year 1741 is characteristic of the rather sententious tenor of his musings.
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choreography that was sobersided and sententious
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A tremor goes through me when I hear a sententious TV commentator raise the topic, because they always finish up by talking about the ‘anomaly’ that even the most feckless natural parent is allowed to breed.
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Ask a dancer - or any artist, for that matter - to talk about her/his art, and you invariably get a grandiose mission statement, peppered with sententious remarks about ‘Tradition, Innovation, Vision and Spirit’.
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The document was sententious and pompous.
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The character of Seneca thus finds just the right mixture of true compassion and the ranting of an alcoholic and sententious philosopher, whose servile disciples note down everything he says with ridiculous fury.
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The book's title comes from a sententious line of Henry James's, and the opening preamble announces that multiplicity is going to be an important theme.
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He questioned me about the fate of the Captain Mironoff, whom he called his chum, and often interrupted me by sententious remarks, which, if they did not prove him to be a man well versed in war, showed his natural intelligence and shrewdness.
Marie; a story of Russian love
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Enjoyably plotted, sometimes dextrously turned, but groaning with moral sententiousness, This Happy Breed is peppered with moments in which characters proclaim the importance of using their own words, of not slipping into jargon, in particular the second-hand vocabulary of 1930s socialism.
This Happy Breed; Henry IV, Parts One and Two – review
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He's a gwineter regelate de wedder," replied Uncle Remus, sententiously.
Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings: The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation. By Joel Chandler Harris. With Illustrations by Frederick S. Church and James H. Moser
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Some are witty, some impressively moving, some sententious, but the lack of dramatic context normally prevents evaluation of serious or ironic intent.
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His doer, a little old snuffy attorney of the name of Macphail, grew sententious as the business drew to its close.
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[253] And yet, if it were ever so "sententious," ever so "abrupt;" and if his "brief notices" were ever so "loosely linked together;" -- these, according to Dr. Davidson, would only be indications that S. Mark actually was their Author.
The Last Twelve Verses of the Gospel According to S. Mark Vindicated Against Recent Critical Objectors and Established
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Stuart and his wife arrive at the end to calm everything down, and the play becomes sententious and repetitive.
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Moral beauty has tendency to decay very rapidly into sententiousness or untimeliness.
There's Something Wrong with Sven
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Generally his ideas were expressed in brief sententious phrase, spoken in low voice.
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The character of Seneca thus finds just the right mixture of true compassion and the ranting of an alcoholic and sententious philosopher, whose servile disciples note down everything he says with ridiculous fury.
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He did not, as some of his critics charged, mean this as a call for sententious moralising on the part of historians.
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Generally his ideas were expressed in sententious phrase, spoken in low voice .
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Elizabethan satirists, -- the vitriolic bitterness of Nash, the sententious profundity of Donne, the happy-go-lucky "slogging" of genial Dekker, the sledge-hammer blows of Jonson, the turgid malevolence of Chapman, and the stiletto-like thrusts of George
English Satires
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What suggests that we are dealing with the portrait of an ethical ideal is the locution ‘Heureux celui qui’ [Happy the man who], recalling the sententious maxim (Beatus tile qui) that begins Horace's epode II.
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Chandak, a 13-year-old seventh grader at Seneca Falls Middle School, spelled "sententious",
News Channel 9: Local News
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He was a civil servant of some standing, and after a previous conversation upon æsthetics of a sententious, nebulous, and sympathetic character, he had sent her a small volume, which he described as the fruits of his leisure and which was as a matter of fact rather carefully finished verse.
Ann Veronica: A Modern Love Story
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Triviality, varied by touches of ill-breeding and sententiousness," it elaborated; "she has nothing in her mind except the wish to tell her sister everything; and so she flits from the cows to the currant bushes, from the currant bushes to Mrs. Hall of Sherborne, gives Mrs. Hall a tap, and flits back again" (362-63; cf. even Austen-Leigh’s Memoir 207).
Boxing Emma; or the Readers Dilemma at the Box Hill Games
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At one end of the spectrum were the Latin commonplace books compiled by schoolboys, organized into ‘topics’ or ‘places’ under which sententious sayings were recorded.
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'It's never easy to serve two masters,' he said sententiously.
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I hate it when Tom Colicchio gets sententious, as he did facing the losing four contestants on last night's third episode of Top Chef D.C..
Top Chef D.C., round three: No picnic
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As i n a 2005 London production, he plays Robert, a sententious veteran trouper doing a season of rep with John (T.R. Knight), a promising young colleague.
Spacecraft to Stage Craft
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I suppose if a contemporary poet had written this, I might think it a bit sententious.
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Too often the significant episode deteriorates into sententious conversation.
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Niece," said Don Inocencio gravely and sententiously, "when serious things have taken place, caprices are not called caprices, but by another name.
Dona Perfecta
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Although religious in a superficial and sententious way, she regards God as a servant, not a master, and she acknowledges no limits, either God's or the law's, to the exercise of her will.
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Too often work described as ‘edgy’ is really sententious and predictable.
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As an author, therefore, he is sententious; as a conversationist, loose and verbose; -- or the reverse of this may be true.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858
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No doubt they are meant to represent popular culture, but they are characteristic of the cheerlessness and sententiousness of municipal Labourism.
The New Art Gallery, Walsall
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Although Buddy did not know the word "sententious," the people he described were the embodiment of it -- licensed bores, as all aborigines seemed to be (so he implied), who had a proverb or a biblical passage for every reversal in life.
Beard
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The airport quality inn for one of the perturbing bay sententiously disjointedly hygrometer hedgerow, bristlegrass doojigger, has not truthfully immaculate a hamartia of symphony but that all scouser be resurgent.
Rational Review
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Especially with Thoreau, snippets can feel sententious or bossy or crabby, and the Journal isn't.
A Different Stripe:
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Dubkoff would first have, an argument about something, and then read in a sententious voice either some verses beginning “Au banquet de la vie, infortune convive” or extracts from The
Youth
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In particular, why quote the mostly sentimental and sententious lyrics with such solemn respect?
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the peculiarly sardonic and sententious style in which Don Luis composed his epigrams
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too often the significant episode deteriorates into sententious conversation
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They are never glib, never sententious, but cliché is never far away either.
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Her later works are sometimes diffuse and sententious, without the unaffected charm of her pre-war books.
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The phrase "inspired by a true story" affixes itself to novels like a warning label: Beware sententious moralizing.
Cheeshahteaumauk, Class of '65 (1665)
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The mortals were less convincing, hampered as they are with dialogue which is both pretentious and sententious, a lot of which I felt could have been usefully cut and so speeded up the action.
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The inner pages were dominated by an editorial that, more often than not, took a partisan stand on a burning political question and was typically lengthy, verbose, and sententious, albeit sometimes jocular.
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In the next three seconds, somewhere in the world, an ingenuous pop star or maybe a dippy actress or a sententious comedian will harangue you about Third World debt.
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Alex may be sententious and slack, but he's not unwise.
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-- _Guide_, etc., pp. 28, 29.] [13] {19} [The "real Bonivard" might have indulged in and, perhaps, prided himself on this feeble and irritating _paronomasy_; but nothing can be less in keeping with the bearing and behaviour of the tragic and sententious Bonivard of the legend.] [14] [Compare --
The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 4
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The subject matter ranges from dignified nature-poetry (Du Bellay) and Petrarchesque lyrics (Ronsard), through sententious and moralizing texts, to the familiar drinking-songs, some macaronic texts, and Rabelaisian amorous and bawdy narratives; no one wrote more amusing chansons of this last type (En un chasteau and Il esteoit une religieuse are excellent examples).
Archive 2009-06-01
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It's only when we disagree with his emphasis that we accuse him of being sententious.
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They are political or philosophical, merrily inebriate or sententiously sober.
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But wherever in his Gospel S. Mark is doing the same thing, he is observed to adopt the style and manner which Dr. Davidson is pleased to call "sententious" and "abrupt.
The Last Twelve Verses of the Gospel According to S. Mark Vindicated Against Recent Critical Objectors and Established
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“There was many a good man went to the penny-a-week school with a sod of turf under his oxter,” said Mr. Kernan sententiously.
Dubliners
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It is also portentous, pretentious and sententious.
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But, remember this, Roddy, "his father continued sententiously," the Japs are the Jews of the present.
The White Mice
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In the next three seconds, somewhere in the world, an ingenuous pop star or maybe a dippy actress or a sententious comedian will harangue you about Third World debt.