- 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...
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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...
- 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...
-
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...
- "heavyhandedness" he saw in some of the writing,
noting especially the "
sententious lectures about the
nature of
police work"
delivered to
Sherman by Cooper...
-
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...
- poet
Robert Frost echoed Horace's
Satires in the
conversational and
sententious idiom of some of his
longer poems, such as The
Lesson for
Today (1941)...
-
naval officer (renamed
Captain Vye in
later editions).
Timothy Fairway—A
sententious man of
middle age who is
greatly respected by the
other heathfolk. Grandfer...
- line or the
original dramatic context, as long as the
quotation was
sententious in
itself when
separated from the rest of the play.
Augustine was a lifelong...
