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
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
Rather than highlighting the perversity of slavery, his sententious prose strains to upstage it.
From Washington Post • May 14, 2018
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
The generici or common-places were sententious maxims, descriptions, outpourings of emotion, humorous and fanciful diatribes, declarations of passion, love-laments, ravings, reproaches, declamatory outbursts, which could be employed ad libitum whenever the situation rendered them appropriate.
From The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First by Gozzi, Carlo
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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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