(1) I suppose if a contemporary poet had written this, I might think it a bit sententious .

(2) Although religious in a superficial and sententious way, she regards God as a servant, not a master, and she acknowledges no limits, either God's or the law's, to the exercise of her will.

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(4) Ask a dancer - or any artist, for that matter - to talk about her/his art, and you invariably get a grandiose mission statement, peppered with sententious remarks about u251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu2510Tradition, Innovation, Vision and Spiritu251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu00fb.

(5) It's only when we disagree with his emphasis that we accuse him of being sententious .

(6) It is also portentous, pretentious and sententious .

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(8) Stuart and his wife arrive at the end to calm everything down, and the play becomes sententious and repetitive.

(9) He did not, as some of his critics charged, mean this as a call for sententious moralising on the part of historians.

(10) In the next three seconds, somewhere in the world, an ingenuous pop star or maybe a dippy actress or a sententious comedian will harangue you about Third World debt.

(11) Alex may be sententious and slack, but he's not unwise.

(12) The character of Seneca thus finds just the right mixture of true compassion and the ranting of an alcoholic and sententious philosopher, whose servile disciples note down everything he says with ridiculous fury.

(13) The inner pages were dominated by an editorial that, more often than not, took a partisan stand on a burning political question and was typically lengthy, verbose, and sententious , albeit sometimes jocular.

(14) In particular, why quote the mostly sentimental and sententious lyrics with such solemn respect?

(15) Some are witty, some impressively moving, some sententious , but the lack of dramatic context normally prevents evaluation of serious or ironic intent.

(16) A tremor goes through me when I hear a sententious TV commentator raise the topic, because they always finish up by talking about the u251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu2510anomalyu251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu00fb that even the most feckless natural parent is allowed to breed.

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(18) The book's title comes from a sententious line of Henry James's, and the opening preamble announces that multiplicity is going to be an important theme.

(19) His summary of the year 1741 is characteristic of the rather sententious tenor of his musings.

(20) The mortals were less convincing, hampered as they are with dialogue which is both pretentious and sententious , a lot of which I felt could have been usefully cut and so speeded up the action.