sententious
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Audiences have no choice but to exist in the theatrical moment, without recourse to linear logic, sententious language or psychological epiphanies.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 16, 2025
On the other hand, the sententious segues and gassed-up encomiums to whatever B-list star was arriving onstage were eliminated.
From New York Times • Jun. 12, 2023
There’s a similar try-hard-ness about “The Power of Prayer,” another song about the spiritual significance of music that I find more sententious than moving.
From Slate • Oct. 22, 2020
Instead, the carefully calibrated restraint that arises from McQueen’s earnest and sententious direction seals out the psychological implications of the stifled melodrama.
From The New Yorker • Nov. 16, 2018
Observe that the first sentence, though purely in the way of narrative, is just as sententious in form as the graver proverbs of each master that follow.
From The English Novel And the Principle of its Development by Lanier, Sidney
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Common Senses: Sent, Sens ("Feel")
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"The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet," Vocabulary from Act 2
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