- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
-
Bulletin wrote that the film "almost
falls flat when it
indulges in
sententious philosophising about the need for
Russians and
Americans to live peacefully...
- 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)...
