Примери за sententious

• For he sets it all out almost entirely without being sententious.

• In fact, the farce can be divided into sections by subject matter, in which the farmers harp on themes to be appropriated by narrators of sententious villanesche.

• Who is he to take them to task when he is positively boasting of what he calls his sententious asides?

• I shall try to moderate my reply, despite the sententious terms of the question.

• It is no good our being sententious about what occurs to a foster child when this is going on.

• It makes it sententious and even more offensive.

• I hope that these few comments have not sounded sententious.

• We are going to vote, we hope and believe without being sententious, on a matter of principle as opposed to a matter of expediency.

• I shall not conclude with any sententious remarks.

• The possibilities of quotation and counter-quotation are infinite and, up to a point, great fun, but do not let there be any sententious nonsense about it.

• He said so many wise things to us and uttered them in so pithy and sententious a style that one could never forget them.

• They are full of trope and figure, frequently with much force of application, quaint and sententious.

• He is obsequious towards the powerful, arrogant towards the weak, sententious and narrow-minded.

• Immensely popular during the early part of his career, his works were subsequently dismissed as sententious and sentimental.

• They often have a sententious tone and convey a feeling of intimate pain.