sententious

How To Use sententious In A Sentence

• The phrase "inspired by a true story" affixes itself to novels like a warning label: Beware sententious moralizing. Cheeshahteaumauk, Class of '65 (1665)
• Niece," said Don Inocencio gravely and sententiously, "when serious things have taken place, caprices are not called caprices, but by another name. Dona Perfecta
• Although religious in a superficial and sententious way, she regards God as a servant, not a master, and she acknowledges no limits, either God's or the law's, to the exercise of her will.
• Too often work described as ‘edgy’ is really sententious and predictable.
• As an author, therefore, he is sententious; as a conversationist, loose and verbose; -- or the reverse of this may be true. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858
• No doubt they are meant to represent popular culture, but they are characteristic of the cheerlessness and sententiousness of municipal Labourism. The New Art Gallery, Walsall
• Although Buddy did not know the word "sententious," the people he described were the embodiment of it -- licensed bores, as all aborigines seemed to be (so he implied), who had a proverb or a biblical passage for every reversal in life. Beard
• The airport quality inn for one of the perturbing bay sententiously disjointedly hygrometer hedgerow, bristlegrass doojigger, has not truthfully immaculate a hamartia of symphony but that all scouser be resurgent. Rational Review
• Especially with Thoreau, snippets can feel sententious or bossy or crabby, and the Journal isn't. A Different Stripe:
• Dubkoff would first have, an argument about something, and then read in a sententious voice either some verses beginning “Au banquet de la vie, infortune convive” or extracts from The Youth