- Self-righteousness (also
called sanctimony,
sententiousness, and holier-than-thou attitudes) is an
attitude and
belief of
moral superiority derived from...
-
Susannah (21
September 2014). "Ballyturk
review – frenzied, incessant,
sententious".
Stage reviews. The Guardian.
Archived from the
original on 14 October...
- 2022.
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Catherine (13
December 2018). "Watership...
- "heavyhandedness" he saw in some of the writing,
noting especially the "
sententious lectures about the
nature of
police work"
delivered to
Sherman by Cooper...
- 1879. It is
translated from the
German "with the
omission of the long
sententious lectures found in the original."
Around the same year, an
abridged version...
-
Reverend Percival Darbishire, from whom he has
inherited a
habit of
sententiously citing proverbs (generally
prefixed with "My
father says..."). Darbishire...
-
almost certainly unintentional, but
everything about James Clavell's
sententious script ...
suggests that he sees his hero as a
Saviour figure, nobly...
- and
confined himself to an
explanation of the Creed;
whereupon it was
sententiously remarked that the bell had been
ringing long enough, it was time for...
- tradition, the
philosopher bequeathed to
posterity in
rhythmical form and
sententious brevity, this is
notably recorded: "Humble yourselves, my descendants;...
-
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...
