- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Wall
Street Journal noted, "things take a turn from
simplicity to
sententiousness, then to
surreal silliness, and
finally to a mano-à-mano contest, on...
- 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...
- Bruyère
reminds the
reader of Montaigne, but he
aimed too much at
sententiousness to
attempt even the
apparent continuity of the
great essayist. The...
- 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...
-
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...
- 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...
