- Self-righteousness (also
called sanctimony,
sententiousness, and holier-than-thou attitudes) is an
attitude and
belief of
moral superiority derived from...
- of
sententious speech is
exemplified by Polonius'
famous speech to
Laertes in Hamlet.
Sometimes in
Elizabethan and
Jacobean drama the
sententious lines...
-
Susannah (21
September 2014). "Ballyturk
review – frenzied, incessant,
sententious".
Stage reviews. The Guardian.
Archived from the
original on 14 October...
- 1879. It is
translated from the
German "with the
omission of the long
sententious lectures found in the original."
Around the same year, an
abridged version...
-
almost certainly unintentional, but
everything about James Clavell's
sententious script ...
suggests that he sees his hero as a
Saviour figure, nobly...
- his son Laertes, who is
leaving for France, in the form of a list of
sententious maxims. He
finishes by
giving his son his blessing, and is apparently...
-
Bulletin wrote that the film "almost
falls flat when it
indulges in
sententious philosophising about the need for
Russians and
Americans to live peacefully...
-
flourished in the 6th
century BC, were
those who
arranged series of
sententious maxims in verse.
These were
collected in the 4th century, by
Lobon of...
- ill-disciplined
imitation of Gr****
poetical models, and in
prose by a dry
sententiousness of style,
gradually giving way to a
clear and
fluent strength..." These...
-
Elliott The
Chief of Police/The
Policeman Yves
Deniaud Philip Stainton The
Sententious Félix
Oudart Unknown The High-Howler
Etienne Decroux The
Blind Man Roger...
