Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth. From LearnThat.org. [Bertrand Russell (1872-1970), English logician and philosopher.]
Too often the significant episode deteriorates into sententious conversation. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : a sententious book. ,a sententious poet. From Dictionary.com.
The Alto was a grave, learned, and sententious man. From Wordnik.com. [The Violin Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators] Reference
His poems are rather sententious than harmonious. From Wordnik.com. [English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction] Reference
The Doctor was epigrammatic; the Senator sententious. From Wordnik.com. [The Dodge Club or, Italy in MDCCCLIX] Reference
"One of the gnomic, or sententious poets," I replied. From Wordnik.com. [My New Curate] Reference
"Long may it wave!" was Adrian's sententious comment. From Wordnik.com. [The Broncho Rider Boys with Funston at Vera Cruz Or, Upholding the Honor of the Stars and Stripes] Reference
Of course his sententious catch-phrase of appealing to. From Wordnik.com. [The History of "Punch"] Reference
His proverbs are famous specimens of sententious wisdom. From Wordnik.com. [General History for Colleges and High Schools] Reference
The sententious speaker is, of course, full and concise. From Wordnik.com. [A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, Or The Causes Of Corrupt Eloquence The Works Of Cornelius Tacitus, Volume 8 (of 8); With An Essay On His Life And Genius, Notes, Supplements] Reference
Its short, sententious sentences were altogether to his mind. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Shoemaker or 'Cobbler' Horn] Reference
Then it was that the affected sententious brevity came into vogue. From Wordnik.com. [A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, Or The Causes Of Corrupt Eloquence The Works Of Cornelius Tacitus, Volume 8 (of 8); With An Essay On His Life And Genius, Notes, Supplements] Reference
Similarly, Brightman's sharply sententious prose echoes McCarthy's. From Wordnik.com. [ON PARNASSUS FOR 15 MINUTES] Reference
With that sententious maxim, which, indeed, he uttered in his native. From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851] Reference
In a sententious tone he said: "I say that it's not to be despised.". From Wordnik.com. [Golden Stories A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost Writers] Reference
"Quirk," said Garnett, in the slow and sententious manner he adopted. From Wordnik.com. [Grey Town An Australian Story] Reference
These communications will be sententious, summary, and of great variety. From Wordnik.com. [Ocean Steam Navigation and the Ocean Post] Reference
Samuel Bowers had removed his cigar to let fall a sententious observation. From Wordnik.com. [The Henchman] Reference
He was suddenly the perfect clergyman, attentive, sympathetic, sententious. From Wordnik.com. [The Saracen: The Holy War] Reference
One could say the poetical or sententious without being insulted by a stare. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Seigneur Or, Nation-Making] Reference
All very fine, and, doubtless, very true, as well as sententious and profound. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 24, October, 1859] Reference
He had laughed a great deal when he heard sententious Egiste Brancadori repeat it. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Going down the aisle, Saunders M'Tavish voiced the general alarm in sententious tones. From Wordnik.com. [St. Cuthbert's] Reference
"Walkin 'fast," continued the sententious lad, swallowing immediately half a cup of milk. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 33, December, 1873] Reference
He combined the realistic modern method with the bitter, ironical, sententious method of Thackeray. From Wordnik.com. [Personality in Literature] Reference
This sententious close of the prologue introduces the main story, chiefly dramatic in form, in which. From Wordnik.com. [Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature] Reference
He was quite conscious that he sometimes laid down the law in an authoritative and even sententious manner. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 31, October, 1873] Reference
For convenience of the reader an effort has been made to arrange these sententious sayings under general subjects. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 1, January 1916] Reference
There is that august tribunal over which at one time reigned Scott's genial friend Ballantyne, succeeded by the sententious. From Wordnik.com. [The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author] Reference
As an author, therefore, he is sententious; as a conversationist, loose and verbose; -- or the reverse of this may be true. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858] Reference
"Aye, mebbe," said father, in his sententious way, cocking his eye as the cutter sped on its way towards the training-ship. From Wordnik.com. [Young Tom Bowling The Boys of the British Navy] Reference
The former was slow and sententious; the latter was quick and flighty; the latter had generally the first word; the former the last. From Wordnik.com. [Half-Hours with Great Story-Tellers] Reference
Chandak, a 13-year-old seventh grader at Seneca Falls Middle School, spelled "sententious". From Wordnik.com. [News Channel 9: Local News] Reference
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