sententious

Example Sentences

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Darren — Buck — confronts fragility so finely attuned that even to suggest the existence of racism incites a White backlash of racist attacks cloaked in sententious outrage.

From Washington Post

And though Austen is seemingly an odd match for such material, “Austen Years” is full of neat observations and provocative comparisons, folded into the story with a subtlety that keeps Cohen’s sense from getting sententious.

From New York Times

Meany’s sententious offerings were typically well-stocked with school and neighborhood history.

From Seattle Times

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

Aden Sawyer, the teen-age protagonist, has a boyfriend, Decker Yousafzai, and an unhappy family: her mother, an alcoholic, and her father, a remote and sententious professor, whom Aden scornfully addresses as “Teacher,” are separated.

From The New Yorker