sententious
Example Sentences
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Audiences have no choice but to exist in the theatrical moment, without recourse to linear logic, sententious language or psychological epiphanies.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 16, 2025
Yet “sandblasted” is not a satire of Oprah or Oprah-ism; especially as played by the former newscaster and talk show host Rolonda Watts, Adah is at least as warm as she is sententious.
From New York Times • Feb. 27, 2022
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
My dear, I wish you could be frank without being sententious.
From Plays: Lady Frederick, The Explorer, A Man of Honor by Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset)
Vocabulary lists containing sententious
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Common Senses: Sent, Sens ("Feel")
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"The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet," Vocabulary from Act 2
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