- Self-righteousness (also
called sanctimony,
sententiousness, and holier-than-thou attitudes) is an
attitude and
belief of
moral superiority derived from...
-
Elliott The
Chief of Police/The
Policeman Yves
Deniaud Philip Stainton The
Sententious Félix
Oudart Unknown The High-Howler
Etienne Decroux The
Blind Man Roger...
- of
sententious speech is
exemplified by Polonius'
famous speech to
Laertes in Hamlet.
Sometimes in
Elizabethan and
Jacobean drama the
sententious lines...
- his son Laertes, who is
leaving for France, in the form of a list of
sententious maxims. He
finishes by
giving his son his blessing, and is apparently...
-
Susannah (21
September 2014). "Ballyturk
review – frenzied, incessant,
sententious".
Stage reviews. The Guardian.
Archived from the
original on 14 October...
-
flourished in the 6th
century BC, were
those who
arranged series of
sententious maxims in verse.
These were
collected in the 4th century, by
Lobon of...
- precepts. At the same time, as the work is
mostly written in a concise,
sententious form, with the aid of aphorisms, and as the
reasonings are not sufficiently...
- "heavyhandedness" he saw in some of the writing,
noting especially the "
sententious lectures about the
nature of
police work"
delivered to
Sherman by Cooper...
- the song is "well meaning", "hectoring" and that it "grow[s] even more
sententious".
PopMatters praised the
single with long overview: Oh, and speaking...
- poet
Robert Frost echoed Horace's
Satires in the
conversational and
sententious idiom of some of his
longer poems, such as The
Lesson for
Today (1941)...
