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  • proposition as well. Overconfident, Aadhi publicly proposes to Reenu but she sententiously spurns his proposal, resulting in further taunts from Sachin and Amal...
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  • Self-righteousness (also called sanctimony, sententiousness, and holier-than-thou attitudes) is an attitude and belief of moral superiority derived from...
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    Susannah (21 September 2014). "Ballyturk review – frenzied, incessant, sententious". Stage reviews. The Guardian. Archived from the original on 14 October...
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    his son Laertes, who is leaving for France, in the form of a list of sententious maxims. He finishes by giving his son his blessing, and is apparently...
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  • Elliott The Chief of Police/The Policeman Yves Deniaud Philip Stainton The Sententious Félix Oudart Unknown The High-Howler Etienne Decroux The Blind Man Roger...
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  • 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...
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    poet Robert Frost echoed Horace's Satires in the conversational and sententious idiom of some of his longer poems, such as The Lesson for Today (1941)...
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  • (possibly contemporary with its British release), which claims that "the sententious script sounds as if it has been written by a zealous Sunday school teacher...
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    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...
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  • of sententious speech is exemplified by Polonius' famous speech to Laertes in Hamlet. Sometimes in Elizabethan and Jacobean drama the sententious lines...
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  • 2022. Retrieved 13 September 2022. Whitehead, Ted (21 October 1978). "Sententious". The Spectator. p. 30. Lester, Catherine (13 December 2018). "Watership...
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  • Kauffmann of The New Republic wrote that he found the film "distended, sententious, ostentatiously frank, fundamentally trite, and thematically unsuccessful"...
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  • "Every time the film goes philosophical on us, the resulting dialogue is sententious and banal." Todd McCarthy of Variety said, "Although she can’t save the...
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  • her delivery. Andy Gill for The Independent described her cover as "sententious". Neil McCormick for The Telegraph was critical of her decision to cover...
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    precepts. At the same time, as the work is mostly written in a concise, sententious form, with the aid of aphorisms, and as the reasonings are not sufficiently...
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  • naval officer (renamed Captain Vye in later editions). Timothy Fairway—A sententious man of middle age who is greatly respected by the other heathfolk. Grandfer...
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    line or the original dramatic context, as long as the quotation was sententious in itself when separated from the rest of the play. Augustine was a lifelong...
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  • Astral Weeks, I think this is his worst since Hard Nose the Highway – sententious, torpid, abandoned by God. I know lots of Astral Weeks fans who agree...
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  • "heavyhandedness" he saw in some of the writing, noting especially the "sententious lectures about the nature of police work" delivered to Sherman by Cooper...
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  • the song is "well meaning", "hectoring" and that it "grow[s] even more sententious". PopMatters praised the single with long overview: Oh, and speaking...
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