sententious
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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
Rather than highlighting the perversity of slavery, his sententious prose strains to upstage it.
From Washington Post • May 14, 2018
What’s more, Charles’s sententious interpretation of noblesse oblige leaves him open to the charge of overstepping the constitutional boundaries of his position.
From The New Yorker • Apr. 3, 2017
Beaumont and Fletcher had no desire to make their style sententious, weighty, and philosophical.
From Tragedy by Thorndike, Ashley H.
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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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