"After the record was over," Barlow writes, "Tim Leary stood up and in this incredibly pretentious, sententious mystical voice, said, 'My work is finished.

Despite the Chinese wisdom of harmony and co-existence, China could always retaliate in a far more sententious move by selling huge portion of the $1.17 trillion of the U.S.

Or rather, he did conceive of an audience, since his prose is sententious and his imagery grand, but he himself stood in for that audience.

Sententious and anachronistic observations impede understanding.

Maybe, but the word for these works is not timeless or beautiful but handsome--eminently pleasing to the eye, with a slightly stuck-up, sententious quality mitigated by a hint of errant wit.

It made him funny, articulate, erudite and sententious. But it was just an exaggerated facet of him.

Brown begins with an analysis of Animal House that "ultimately rejects Milton's Satan for other, less sententious kinds of misrule" and in which "general disobedience prevails at Milton's expense rather than with his backing" (196).

As told by Olivier Bourdeaut's narrator, the young son who retrospectively describes his parents' whirlwind existence, what could have been a sententious morality tale (as in La Fontaine's fable) of doomed grasshoppers, making merry and perilously living on borrowed time in a world of industrious and unforgiving ants, instead becomes a lighthearted ode to the age-old injunction of carpe diem.

While both agree that good morals are important to literature, Chaucer argues that readerly pleasure is also essential and Gower advocates for a more serious and sententious approach.

Sections they "noted" might range from short sententious, lyrical, telling or charming moments, to long segments of masques or entire songs.

Yet what weighs the characters down is not their parachutes or rock-climbing gear, but their sententious First World guilt and bland casting; gone is the free-spirited fun of Kathryn Bigelow's cult-hit original.

Longfellow's poem, therefore, while it struggles to express the desire in many of us to be remembered beyond death, succeeds in being just slightly better than sententious nonsense.

decided to become an apprentice again in the popular theater" and "seems to have turned his back on sententious plays like Hamlet, Sejanus, or The Malcontent." (29) The commonplacing found in earlier works recedes in this period.

Often, these highlighted segments are the types of sententious phrases we might expect to see decontextualized and written in a commonplace book, and this practice applied in Harington's book reflects a common desire among early-modern audiences to read Chaucer as a moral poet.