- Self-righteousness (also
called sanctimony,
sententiousness, and holier-than-thou attitudes) is an
attitude and
belief of
moral superiority derived from...
-
Susannah (21
September 2014). "Ballyturk
review – frenzied, incessant,
sententious".
Stage reviews. The Guardian.
Archived from the
original on 14 October...
- 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...
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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...
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Reverend Percival Darbishire, from whom he has
inherited a
habit of
sententiously citing proverbs (generally
prefixed with "My
father says..."). Darbishire...
-
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...
- of
sententious speech is
exemplified by Polonius'
famous speech to
Laertes in Hamlet.
Sometimes in
Elizabethan and
Jacobean drama the
sententious lines...
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which words are "etched in stone"; it is concise, pithy, elegant, and
sententious. The
meaning extends to text in that
style which is
printed on paper...
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celestial events and discoveries. Fort
portrays them as
quack prophets,
sententiously pointing towards the
skies and
saying "Lo!". Lo! has been described...
- raise; Or if they do
delight therein, yet are so clo**** with wit, As with
sententious lips to set a
title vain on it: O let them hear
these sacred tunes, and...
