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

There’s a similar try-hard-ness about “The Power of Prayer,” another song about the spiritual significance of music that I find more sententious than moving.

From Slate • Oct. 22, 2020

The film is narrated in a wanly philosophical and sententious voice-over, which Willem Dafoe delivers in an oracular, seen-it-all voice.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 6, 2018

Rather than highlighting the perversity of slavery, his sententious prose strains to upstage it.

From Washington Post • May 14, 2018

No other writer has ever given such periods of sententious wisdom.

From The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by Rameur, E.