Sententiousness

Word SENTENTIOUSNESS
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And, lateish, Craik, who improves in sententiousness and that universal forgiveness which springs from universal understanding. ❋ Unknown (1883)

It's easy to make fun of all this sententiousness, which is compounded by the movie's 133-minute length, or to forget what a formidable actress Ms. Roberts can be with the right material. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Were the people who made this film—among them the writer and first-time director George Nolfi—governed by such unseen forces as knee-jerk sententiousness, studio imperatives, marketing experts and focus groups? ❋ Joe Morgenstern (2011)

Enjoyably plotted, sometimes dextrously turned, but groaning with moral sententiousness, This Happy Breed is peppered with moments in which characters proclaim the importance of using their own words, of not slipping into jargon, in particular the second-hand vocabulary of 1930s socialism. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Unfortunately, Tom Guise, the author of the Labour List post, combines sententiousness with the sort of prefabricated phrases that George Orwell complained about to say: ❋ Unknown (2009)

I assume his attack (on the ugly thread) is for the purposes of getting some attention and as a kindly soul I shall not deny the poor lonely chap. I have looked at his blog and it has the unintentional comic sententiousness of youth. ❋ Newmania (2007)

Moral beauty has tendency to decay very rapidly into sententiousness or untimeliness. ❋ Unknown (2009)

No doubt they are meant to represent popular culture, but they are characteristic of the cheerlessness and sententiousness of municipal Labourism. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Surrounded by sententiousness and self-preening, Marisa Tomei manages to play a skeptical journalist with easy charm, but her efforts are doomed by the movie's ceaseless barrage of dumb bombs. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Not so the second act, in which Mr. Sondheim and James Lapine tell a parallel tale of the modern-day art world that lapses into the same cloying sententiousness that mars the second act of "Into the Woods," their 1987 fairy-tale musical: Anything you do,/Let it come from you. ❋ Terry Teachout (2008)

But apart from the vast superiority of the Greek in depth and passion and dramatic invention, in Voltaire this philosophizing is very much more indirect, insinuatory, and furtive, than in the marked sententiousness of Euripides. ❋ Unknown (2007)

I must read one of Laurie King's Mary Russell books tonight, to wash that sententiousness right out of my brain. ❋ Gillpolack (2006)

Goldsmith, in conversation, shone most when he least thought of shining; when he gave up all effort to appear wise and learned, or to cope with the oracular sententiousness of Johnson, and gave way to his natural impulses. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Still, its director, Harold Clurman, has very ably succeeded, in so far as it was at all within his power, in staving off some of the hazards of the author's ideological ambition and the frequent sententiousness of his language. ❋ Rahv, Philip (1965)

Roly spoke with hearty sententiousness and was unprepared for the reaction, which was instant. ❋ Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966 (1952)

Assad presented the paper to queen Margiana, who admired alike the sententiousness of the thoughts, and the goodness of the writing. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)

Whatever lends itself to ridicule is instantly seized upon; odd, eccentric and degraded personalities are caricatured, social foibles and vices pilloried, pomposity and sententiousness in the verses of the poets, particularly the tragedians, and most particularly in Euripides -- the pet aversion and constant butt of Aristophanes 'satire -- are parodied. ❋ 446? BC-385? BC Aristophanes (N/A)

And the supreme simplicity of the rejoinder, coupled with the complete unconsciousness of the speaker that there was anything unusual in his attitude, at once erased any savour of sententiousness. ❋ A. M. W. [Compiler] Stirling (N/A)

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