- 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...
-
almost certainly unintentional, but
everything about James Clavell's
sententious script ...
suggests that he sees his hero as a
Saviour figure, nobly...
- "heavyhandedness" he saw in some of the writing,
noting especially the "
sententious lectures about the
nature of
police work"
delivered to
Sherman by Cooper...
- 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...
- its
utmost purity and perfection... and of Tacitus, his
conceits and
sententious style is not that of the
golden age... Evidently,
Teuffel received ideas...
- 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)...
- tradition, the
philosopher bequeathed to
posterity in
rhythmical form and
sententious brevity, this is
notably recorded: "Humble yourselves, my descendants;...
- 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...
- 2022.
Retrieved 13
September 2022. Whitehead, Ted (21
October 1978). "
Sententious". The Spectator. p. 30. Lester,
Catherine (13
December 2018). "Watership...
