sententious
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It’s clearly vying to be shelved alongside the sententious Stoic self-help books that have become trendy among seekers of meme-able ancient wisdom in recent years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 8, 2026
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
This is the foggy lens through which our most sententious pundits are—week after week—doggedly committed to viewing the state of American society.
From Slate ● Mar. 2, 2018
It is addressed to Fulke Greville, and written, with much sententious melody, in a sort of terza rima, or, more properly, ottava rima with the couplet omitted.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 9 "Dagupan" to "David" by Various
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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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