- 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...
-
called it "a semi-discriminate hodgepodge,
flamboyant but
lucid and
sententious,
erudite to the
point of exhibitionism,
painfully egocentric, and somehow...
- good" and "weak", and that the
music was "a
triumph of
style over
sententiousness, of
sound over sense" with "a
lulling repetitiousness to a lot of what...
- 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...
- 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...
- "heavyhandedness" he saw in some of the writing,
noting especially the "
sententious lectures about the
nature of
police work"
delivered to
Sherman by Cooper...
- and
confined himself to an
explanation of the Creed;
whereupon it was
sententiously remarked that the bell had been
ringing long enough, it was time for...
-
almost certainly unintentional, but
everything about James Clavell's
sententious script ...
suggests that he sees his hero as a
Saviour figure, nobly...
