| He did not, as some of his critics charged, mean this as a call for sententious moralising on the part of historians. |
| The book's title comes from a sententious line of Henry James's, and the opening preamble announces that multiplicity is going to be an important theme. |
| His summary of the year 1741 is characteristic of the rather sententious tenor of his musings. |
| In the next three seconds, somewhere in the world, an ingenuous pop star or maybe a dippy actress or a sententious comedian will harangue you about Third World debt. |
| His doer, a little old snuffy attorney of the name of Macphail, grew sententious as the business drew to its close. |
| Some are witty, some impressively moving, some sententious, but the lack of dramatic context normally prevents evaluation of serious or ironic intent. |
