| His doer, a little old snuffy attorney of the name of Macphail, grew sententious as the business drew to its close. |
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| His summary of the year 1741 is characteristic of the rather sententious tenor of his musings. |
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| It's only when we disagree with his emphasis that we accuse him of being sententious. |
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| Stuart and his wife arrive at the end to calm everything down, and the play becomes sententious and repetitive. |
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| He did not, as some of his critics charged, mean this as a call for sententious moralising on the part of historians. |
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| I suppose if a contemporary poet had written this, I might think it a bit sententious. |
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| In particular, why quote the mostly sentimental and sententious lyrics with such solemn respect? |
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| He is the sententious writer of resolutions butchering her beautifies of song to expose the bare bones of an idea. |
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| Her later works are sometimes diffuse and sententious, without the unaffected charm of her pre-war books. |
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| I'm sure that I've gotten away with my share of sententious flapdoodle because my granddaughters are just too kind to call me on it. |
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| 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. |
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| His later églogas introduce other types of characters and, although still rudimentary in plot, are more complex, refined, and sententious. |
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| Its parade of sententious and yawningly vacuous postmodern artspeak can only serve to perpetuate the perception of the contemporary art world as a self-serving elite. |
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| Some are witty, some impressively moving, some sententious, but the lack of dramatic context normally prevents evaluation of serious or ironic intent. |
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| 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. |
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| He became the much-needed soul of the Sixties folk boom, bringing the open emotionality of gospel to a scene predominantly given to sententious moralising and po-faced traditional purism. |
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| Without such a Copernican revolution, Mr President, we will forever have the spectacle of a sententious but powerless Europe, which Commissioner Patten embodies with the perfection of an old Shakespearean actor. |
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| The tsaddik, let me put it in a sententious way, is the ideal of the normal Jew and if he fulfils all that he sets out to do, he is still the embodiment of the normal Jew at his best. |
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| The sententious choirboy dramas presented at court throughout the second half of the 16th century were acted and sung by two companies, the Children of Paul's and the Gentlemen and Children of the Chapel Royal. |
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