| 单词 | sententious |
| 例句 | Aestheticism combated the popular anecdotal, sentimental, morally sententious art of the Victorians. Aesthetic values 2011-03-26T00:05:03Z But there are sententious passages where Yusuf swaps funny for earnest. An Audience with Imran Yusuf 2010-08-27T14:22:00Z Instead, the carefully calibrated restraint that arises from McQueen’s earnest and sententious direction seals out the psychological implications of the stifled melodrama. “Widows,” Reviewed: Steve McQueen Grafts Heist Film 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z This traffic between the everyday and mortality requires a perfect control of tone, neither sententious nor sentimental in this familiar setting. The Malarkey by Helen Dunmore - review 2012-07-20T21:55:04Z What of its sententious and cynical inscriptions, which glorify the lost cause, the valor, the duty, without any mention of slavery or insurrection? When our icons tumble 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z The dialogue is rarely more than functional and occasionally sententious, the lapses into sentimentality are rare, but the coda of the elderly Janusz returning to Poland is probably a mistake. The Way Back ? review 2010-12-26T00:05:13Z The prevailing tone is, as a result, a bit official, sententious and uplifting, redolent of an extended St Patrick's Day speech by a gifted American politician. TransAtlantic by Colum McCann – review 2013-06-01T07:30:01Z Rather than highlighting the perversity of slavery, his sententious prose strains to upstage it. Review | Kevin Powers’s first novel exposed the horrors of the Iraq War. Now he takes on the Civil War. 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z It's a provocative effort, but one rather undone by a sententious ending that suggests the suffering of these men was worthy because it helped further the civil rights movement. In pursuit of US theatre's past perfect 2010-12-22T12:45:04Z And the endless iteration of the sententious “we tell ourselves stories in order to live” seems to be a testament to that. From literary heavyweight to lifestyle brand: exploring the cult of Joan Didion 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z “Do you mind if I’m sententious for a second?” he says to an interviewer. ‘Buzz,’ a New Play by Benjamin Kunkel 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z Bening’s performance is a different story altogether—she virtually makes the movie, sending even simple lines from its often sententious script deftly spinning and leaping in surprising flourishes. The 2017 Oscar Nominations Don’t Matter but the Movies Do, More Than Ever 2017-01-24T05:00:00Z “They are,” he says, “callow, sententious, moralistic, and full of rubbish.” Exhibition Review: Diarists Share Tales ? True or Not ? of Lives Richly Lived 2011-01-21T19:10:36Z Sometimes, though, he drifts into a more sententious, editorial register. Review | Jonathan Evison’s ‘Small World’ feels like a big statement about America 2022-01-21T05:00:00Z While Mr. Davis’s music was far from universally acclaimed — the “New Rolling Stone Record Guide” once called it “sententious Muzak” — he was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2006. Mac Davis, singer-songwriter who blended country and pop, dies at 78 2020-09-30T04:00:00Z Meany’s sententious offerings were typically well-stocked with school and neighborhood history. Seattle transit moves through the driven snow, through the years 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z Aden Sawyer, the teen-age protagonist, has a boyfriend, Decker Yousafzai, and an unhappy family: her mother, an alcoholic, and her father, a remote and sententious professor, whom Aden scornfully addresses as “Teacher,” are separated. The 9/11 Novel That Finally Understands the Fulfillments of Faith 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z Video games, for all their newfound cultural hegemony, remain a soft target for sententious conservatives who want to moralise, cost free. No, Mr Trump, video games do not cause mass shootings | Katherine Cross 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z What’s more, Charles’s sententious interpretation of noblesse oblige leaves him open to the charge of overstepping the constitutional boundaries of his position. Where Prince Charles Went Wrong 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z The wise in Shakespeare are sententious old fools like Polonius who say "to thine own self be true" and "neither a borrower nor a lender be". A Point of View: Is there any such thing as a wise person? - BBC News 2016-01-02T05:00:00Z It is written in the standard, sententious style of Isis and other militant pronouncements and is framed by a worldview that has become wearily familiar over recent years. Paris attacks: day after atrocity - as it happened 2015-11-14T05:00:00Z It’s a lot easier to sell the politics of “Redemption Song” or “Blowin’ in the Wind” if you’re going to make sententious speech in defense of the band you’re welcoming into the building. Why N.W.A belongs in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z She told me that she likes Moore well enough but was irked by the work’s sententious grandeur in a place that is little frequented except, at night, by “homeless people with dogs.” The Timely Sculpture of Rachel Harrison | The New Yorker 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z The original, unfortunately, was sententious, misleading, and, for a work of history, all too neatly aligned with the agenda of the twenty-first century Republican Party. Cartoons for Conservatives: Amity Shlaes's Anti-New Deal Graphic Novel 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z The film's chosen method, complementing ridiculous activities with sententious verbiage, hasn't impressed everyone. Why Cosmopolis's natural born banker does not add up 2012-06-18T10:04:42Z It is written in the standard, sententious style of Isis and other militant pronouncements and is framed by a worldview that has become wearily familiar over recent years. Paris attacks: day after atrocity - as it happened 2015-11-14T05:00:00Z They have only now found Mr. Fentiman, the lanky and sententious lord of Thompson's Woollens. Mrs. Thompson A Novel 2012-04-25T02:01:10.557Z No other writer has ever given such periods of sententious wisdom. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z A short, pithy, and instructive saying; a terse remark, conveying some important truth; a sententious precept or maxim. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z But in the Tale of Melibœus his inimitable faculty of story-telling comes to his aid, and determines his sentences to a little more variety and picturesqueness, though the sententious still predominates. The English Novel And the Principle of its Development 2012-03-21T02:00:37.123Z I longed for my old copy of Livy "much 325 thumbed," that I might sit on the hill and compare the image in my mind, made by his pithy and sententious description, with the reality. Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe 2012-03-19T02:00:26.650Z It would be the conclusion composed by one who had lost his literary illuminator, formal, brief, sententious, and comprehensive. The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels 2012-02-24T03:00:31.020Z She is brief, terse, sententious; her mind being evidently bent on things rather than on words. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z Pertaining to, or in the manner of, an apotghem; sententious; pithy. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z You observe here, although this is dialogue between man and wife, the prose nevertheless tends to the sententious, and every remark must be supported with some dry old maxim or epigrammatic saw. The English Novel And the Principle of its Development 2012-03-21T02:00:37.123Z His refined critical perception had detected the superiority of Chaucer’s versification, as adapted to the present state of the language by Dryden, over the sententious epigrammatic couplet of Pope which had superseded it. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 8 "Hudson River" to "Hurstmonceaux" 2012-02-24T03:00:27.173Z It is addressed to Fulke Greville, and written, with much sententious melody, in a sort of terza rima, or, more properly, ottava rima with the couplet omitted. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 9 "Dagupan" to "David" 2012-02-11T03:03:39.807Z Aloud, Harold said, "There's no accounting for the love affairs of a young girl," which sententious remark really expressed his inmost thoughts. A Singular Metamorphosis 2012-02-01T03:00:10.613Z To utter apothegms, or short and sententious sayings. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z Observe that the first sentence, though purely in the way of narrative, is just as sententious in form as the graver proverbs of each master that follow. The English Novel And the Principle of its Development 2012-03-21T02:00:37.123Z We are wearied by the constant effort to write up to the tragic opportunity for a heightened and sententious eloquence. Tragedy 2012-01-31T03:00:19.343Z He replenished it with stately argument and thrilling verse, and sprinkled it over with sententious wisdom and proverbial pungency. Recitations for the Social Circle 2012-01-17T03:00:22.643Z Gnome, nōm, n. a pithy and sententious saying, generally in verse, embodying some moral sentiment or precept.—Gnomic poets, a class of writers of this form in Greek literature. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) 2012-01-11T03:00:23.770Z He possessed, besides, a certain dry sententious humour, of which the effect was heightened by the inflexible gravity of his countenance, and by the low tones of a voice altogether unambitious of emphasis. Discipline 2012-01-08T03:00:17.620Z Along the walls, which were richly gilt, hung quantities of sententious native maxims, written with Indian ink, sometimes in Chinese characters, sometimes in Tartar, on white or yellow rolls of paper. Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume II (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. 2012-01-03T03:00:07.630Z Beaumont and Fletcher had no desire to make their style sententious, weighty, and philosophical. Tragedy 2012-01-31T03:00:19.343Z The pompous, pedantic, venomous Monsieur Cardinal will long survive as the true image of sententious and self-glorifying immorality. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 7 "Gyantse" to "Hallel" 2011-12-26T03:00:11.613Z Here and there the taste of the 17th century makes itself felt in frigid conceits and forced antitheses; nor does Guarini abstain from sententious maxims which reveal the moralist rather than the poet. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" 2011-12-16T03:00:12.320Z The generici or common-places were sententious maxims, descriptions, outpourings of emotion, humorous and fanciful diatribes, declarations of passion, love-laments, ravings, reproaches, declamatory outbursts, which could be employed ad libitum whenever the situation rendered them appropriate. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First 2011-12-12T03:00:27.507Z When he saw Nora he was sententious but vague, as great doctors are apt to be; the girl gathered from his manner that the worst was to be feared. A Woman Perfected 2011-12-02T03:00:24.420Z "Full of wise saws and modern instances" is equivalent to saying prosaically, "full of sententious proverbs and old, trite illustrations." Essays on Modern Novelists 2011-11-22T03:00:10.817Z “I’m off,” said Sam, in his short, sententious way, and rushed toward the river. An Oregon Girl A Tale of American Life in the New West 2011-11-17T03:00:31.330Z My dear, I wish you could be frank without being sententious. Plays: Lady Frederick, The Explorer, A Man of Honor 2011-11-11T03:00:30.420Z But the title “gnomic” came to be given to all poetry which dealt in a sententious way with questions 152 of ethics. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" 2011-10-31T02:00:28.703Z By the domestic hearth that evening Dr. Banyard addressed to his wife some more or less sententious remarks, as he puffed at his pipe. A Woman Perfected 2011-12-02T03:00:24.420Z Mark particularly the sententious diction of this newly arisen sage. Know the Truth; A critique of the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation 2011-10-29T02:00:13.723Z A figurative answer to add to his first sententious remark was on Marsyas' lips, but he halted suddenly, and a little pallor came into his face. Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians 2011-10-28T02:00:22.437Z Near the beginning of Mr. Conway's small volume entitled "Barons of the Potomack and Rappahannock" occurs the sententious remark that "a true history of tobacco would be the history of English and American Liberty." A History of the Republican Party 2011-10-14T02:00:29.980Z The Gnomic Poets of Greece, who flourished in the 6th century B.C., were those who arranged series of sententious maxims in verse. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" 2011-10-31T02:00:28.703Z Maharbal persevered in his recommendation; but finding his advice rejected, he grew sententious and sentimental, which is often the effect of a snubbing. The Comic History of Rome 2011-10-09T02:00:24.507Z "And she is not an ordinary goat," repeated the Jew, in a sententious tone; "she is of a rare breed,--a good breed." Iermola 2011-10-06T02:00:40.637Z Nothing’s worth while but what’s difficult,” said Jackson with a sententious ring that quite distressed his mate. Lady Barbarina The Siege of London, An International Episode and Other Tales 2011-10-06T02:00:37.063Z "The British workman's such a careless dog," sighed Dollar, shaking a sententious head, for a box of vestas had been spilt about the place. The Crime Doctor 2011-09-09T02:01:05.570Z His sonnets ad sodales show a charming personality; his vigorous and elegant odes and epistles are sententious in tone and reveal an inspired poet and a man chastened by suffering. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" 2011-08-24T02:00:20.690Z And now these tidings from a far land, regular, if brief and sententious, up to this time, were suddenly withheld. Nevermore 2011-07-08T02:00:23.973Z He is a good fellow, but a trifle sententious. The English Stage Being an Account of the Victorian Drama 2011-07-04T02:00:21.750Z Fly: A sententious, epigrammatic stylist who puts a period after each utterance. The Roycroft Dictionary Concocted by Ali Baba and the Bunch on Rainy Days. 2011-07-02T02:00:10.980Z He delights in being ludicrously sententious—in Tupperizing laughingly, and in causing an old adage to appear a new one through the fantastic manner in which it is dished up. The Complete Works of Josh Billings 2011-07-01T02:00:13.387Z Folks do say that I have a tolerable understanding of human nature, not to mention a sententious way of saying things, which I've always said comes from handling trunks. The Old Blood 2011-06-13T02:00:22.897Z In regard to his character, he was rather sententious than fluent; more disposed to listen than to talk; a judicious rather than an imposing companion. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin; Written by Himself. [Vol. 1 of 2] With His Most Interesting Essays, Letters, and Miscellaneous Writings; Familiar, Moral, Political, Economical, and Philosophical 2011-06-08T02:00:20.907Z Moreover, even had Froude been as sententious and frigid as he was in reality picturesque and impassioned, Tennyson’s own faculties would have made good these defects. The English Stage Being an Account of the Victorian Drama 2011-07-04T02:00:21.750Z Mr. Jefferson had once dined at our house, and I remembered him as an elegant and gracious gentleman, though somewhat over dignified and sententious. Donald McElroy, Scotch Irishman 2011-06-04T02:00:12.520Z In other words, Jonson's model is the oratorical and sententious tragedy of Seneca, with its historical plots and its persons of high estate. A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance With special reference to the influence of Italy in the formation and development of modern classicism 2011-05-30T02:00:13.147Z After a sententious pause he added, “It is the part of youth to make mistakes.” The Mystery of The Barranca 2011-05-25T02:00:16.720Z We shall agree with our sententious friend, not, perhaps, in the satisfaction he derived from the honour conferred, as he imagines, on his calling, but in his sorrow over the loss we have sustained! The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton Volume II 2011-05-22T02:00:17.943Z Then my sententious companion, as though kindled by the same influences, opened his lips. The Comstock Club 2011-05-18T02:00:16.367Z He imitated mostly the style which he had last read or–as to-day–heard; therefore he spoke in the sententious manner of the burning-cold Englishman of the three. Hesperus or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days Vol. II A Biography 2011-05-14T02:00:08.440Z The oratorical and sententious tragedies of Seneca had influenced dramatic theory and practice throughout Europe from the very outset of the Renaissance. A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance With special reference to the influence of Italy in the formation and development of modern classicism 2011-05-30T02:00:13.147Z The old lord discovered in this sententious young gentleman two merits—the possession of money, and the knowledge how to spend it advantageously. That Unfortunate Marriage, Vol. 2 2011-04-26T02:00:28.200Z But the more that literature declined, the more sententious grew the critics. Essays 2011-04-15T02:00:16.160Z His opponent was a young gentleman named Dakins—a thin, genteel youth, solemn and sententious in delivery, far above his years, and backed by a host of friends. Mornings at Bow Street A Selection of the Most Humorous and Entertaining Reports which Have Appeared in the 'Morning Herald' 2011-04-08T02:00:09.863Z "Scarcely, madam," said Nickie, with a sententious gravity, who, in the vantage-ground his power gave him, seemed rather desirous of prolonging the interview. The Knight Of Gwynne, Vol. II (of II) 2011-04-04T02:00:06.657Z Sallust, on the other hand, is abrupt and sententious, and is generally considered as having carried this sort of brevity to a vicious excess. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II 2011-04-03T02:00:18.677Z In the proceedings of the lower house relative to this subject, we find a sententious description of political liberty, which might serve as the motto of all Constitutionalists. The American Quarterly Review No. XVIII, June 1831 (Vol 9) 2011-04-02T02:00:12.460Z "I see—I see," said M'Kinlay, with a sententious air and look, as though he read the whole case, and saw her entire disposition revealed before him like a plan. Luttrell Of Arran Complete 2011-04-01T02:00:31.290Z This sententious remark of course induces Rohritz to put the laughing inquiry, "Do you speak from experience, Baroness Stella?" Erlach Court 2011-03-12T03:00:24.407Z "Never fear ye!" said M'Dermot, with a sententious shake of the head. The Knight Of Gwynne, Vol. II (of II) 2011-04-04T02:00:06.657Z I was going to say, "Right"; but I knew it would sound sententious. The High Heart 2011-03-04T03:00:52.683Z The general feeling in the Park seems to be that the Whittakers are horrid children—disagreeable, ill-bred, sententious, and altogether ridiculous; too sharp in one way, too stupid for words in another. The Little Vanities of Mrs. Whittaker A Novel 2011-03-01T03:00:46.487Z Some men pass for great men because they are physically great and dignified, and because they utter few words and those in a sententious manner. Presidential Candidates: containing Sketches, Biographical, Personal and Political, of Prominent Candidates for the Presidency in 1860 2011-02-27T03:00:34.390Z The influence is noteworthy of Spanish mannerists, above all of Guevara upon sententious prose, and of the novelists and humorists, headed by Cervantes, upon the drama. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z There was also the same tendency in both nations to utter ecstatically sententious and moral sayings. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z I had been sententious enough in talking about my country. The High Heart 2011-03-04T03:00:52.683Z His language, too, has the richness and sententious fulness of the Chinese. Philological Proofs of the Original Unity and Recent Origin of the Human Race 2011-02-06T03:00:56.253Z I heard a man say the other day," I said, "that solitude is always sententious. A Lame Dog's Diary 2011-02-04T03:00:23.707Z "Does n't she?" said the other, with a sententious smack of the lip. The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. I (of II) 2011-02-04T03:00:16.820Z The victories of the general are forgotten or live in the musty pages of history with dates and sententious comments of the historian. A Noble Woman The Life-Story of Edith Cavell 2011-01-27T03:00:42.663Z Some conversation next succeeded, delivered in brief, sententious remarks, when the old chief again turned to us. The Chainbearer Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts 2011-01-13T03:01:05.707Z "It makes all the difference in the world whether they send for you, or whether you go to them for an engagement," she told me, with a sententious nod of her head. My Actor-Husband A true story of American stage life 2011-01-03T03:01:07.697Z It contained a washstand, whose marble top was covered with a tidy embroidered with the sententious couplet: To keep your body clean, be sure To have your conscience just as pure. The Song of Songs 2011-01-01T03:00:25.907Z "No fear of you, sir,—devil a bit!" said Maurice, with a sententious shake of the head. The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. I (of II) 2011-02-04T03:00:16.820Z And whatever else you're sententious about don't be sententious about women. The Tower of Oblivion 2010-12-20T17:11:53.787Z "Come from setting sun—been to see Great Father, at Washington—go home," was the sententious reply. The Chainbearer Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts 2011-01-13T03:01:05.707Z The Lacones or Spartans were noted amongst the other Greeks for their brusque and sententious speech, the practice of expressing much in little. Proverb Lore Many sayings, wise or otherwise, on many subjects, gleaned from many sources "You will convey it to him, then?" replied the stranger, with the same sententious brevity as before. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 4 Aph�orism, a brief, sententious saying, in which a comprehensive meaning is involved, as 'Familiarity breeds contempt'; 'Necessity has no law'. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 2 Amiel to Atrauli Such sententious remarks as “Knowledge is Power” are apophthegms. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 "Apollodorus" to "Aral" The term came to be applied later to other sententious statements of physical science, and later still to statements of all kinds of principles. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" This love of seclusion took a singular turn in the reserve, and in the short and sententious mode of expression, practised by the Laconians. The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 2 of 2 It gives a collection of short, sententious sayings of all times, such as are constantly referred to, but are not to be found in other books of reference. Ticknor and Company Book Catalog (1887) Mr. Shund frequently monopolized the conversation, and, when this was the case, the company listened to his sententious words with breathless attention and many marks of approbation. The Progressionists, and Angela. "Reckon Old Man Tarbush knows when he's well off," was his sententious reply. The Broken Gate A Novel She hesitated: she would only be impeccable even though she should have to be sententious. The Spoils of Poynton "More ducks than drakes," put in the sententious miller. The White Plumes of Navarre A Romance of the Wars of Religion "In such a vast heap of money, it is not easy to distinguish to whom such or such a sum belongs," answered the Landlord, in a sententious voice. Joseph in the Snow, and The Clockmaker In Three Volumes. Vol. III. Young’s style is too broken and sententious to permit the miracles of melody which are found in some of our poets. Young's Night Thoughts With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes "I am not pursuing the intangible, though," Tristrem answered, with a little sententious nod. The Truth About Tristrem Varick A Novel The Major, however, seemed not fully to enjoy the priest's anecdotical powers, but sipped his glass with a grave and sententious air. Jack Hinton The Guardsman "Grieved to hear it, Mr. Carew," was the grave, sententious reply. Sir Jasper Carew His Life and Experience But for clear exposition, smooth and agreeable narrative, sententious and pointed brevity, witty repartee, it soon proves itself to have no superior and scarcely an equal in Europe. A Short History of French Literature It is full of clear, sharp, sententious truth. Young's Night Thoughts With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes But he will certainly survive, at least in extract, as a distinguished humorist, an expert in epigrammatic and sententious aphorism, an artist of extremely finished execution. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 2 "Camorra" to "Cape Colony" We ought to remember," I pursued, even at the risk of showing as too sententious, "that success in such an inquiry may perhaps be more embarrassing than failure. The Sacred Fount The manuscript contains two hundred and nineteen poems, besides ditties and sententious sayings. Women of the Teutonic Nations Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 8 (of 10) La Rochefoucauld is never enigmatical, rarely sententious merely, and is almost indifferent to the production of mots. A Short History of French Literature These recitations, with or without musical accompaniment, soon included gnomic or didactic, as well as epic, verse; if Homer was a rhapsode, so was the sententious or “moral” Hesiod. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 6 "Dodwell" to "Drama" "I was never corrupted," said the other, with a sententious gravity whose hypocrisy was palpable. That Boy Of Norcott's Around the table sat some seven or eight others, whose phlegmatic look and sententious aspect, convinced me, they were Flemings. Arthur O'Leary His Wanderings And Ponderings In Many Lands His sententious commonplaces were reported as so many oracular revelations dragged reluctantly from him. An Englishman in Paris Notes and Recollections It is sometimes a little too sententious in tone, and suffers from the habit, induced probably by Pensée-writing, of composing in very brief paragraphs. A Short History of French Literature "Bungalow," he explained, sententious, flourishing his free hand: "hermitage—retreat." The Destroying Angel He is at once prolix and concise, indulging in a single vein of thought till the monotony becomes tedious, and yet enunciating his ideas with sententious brevity. The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 New Edition But a body of primitive law also often contains a certain number of sententious legal proverbs, put in striking form so as to stick in the memory, but vague in their content. An Introduction to the Philosophy of Law The style of the one is clear, masculine, sententious, and measured; that of the other is bold, unmeasured, diffuse, fervid, and sometimes obscure. The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles Vol. 2 They had a simple meal together, Ahmed keeping a watchful eye on his horse tethered at the door; and then the swordsmith took his leave, with a sententious maxim by way of parting counsel. Barclay of the Guides "I see,—I believe I see it all," said Meekins, with the same sententious slowness as before. The Daltons, Volume II (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life But now Aunt Harriet forgot and neglected and grew cross like any one, and the sententious utterances of Uncle Austen irritated her. The House of Fulfilment Naturally talkative and disputatious, he was, when action was demanded, brief, sententious, and sparing of any words but what the occasion demanded. The Struggle for Missouri This was sententious for the Crown in the hamlet. The Hills and the Vale Poll, the parrot, utters sententious comment; and the Shetland ponies whinny greetings to their mistress. Through Our Unknown Southwest Almost every provision in that instrument has a history that must be understood, before the brief and sententious language employed can be comprehended in the relations its authors intended. Report of the Decision of the Supreme Court of the United States, and the Opinions of the Judges Thereof, in the Case of Dred Scott versus John F.A. Sandford December Term, 1856. Having by a joint effort at sententious English pronounced this speech, the brothers stood stolidly awaiting the result; while the captain, still gnashing his teeth, bent over the prostrate form of his mother. Cudjo's Cave Its tone is one of sustained elevation, and in sententious moral and political wisdom it will bear a comparison with the greatest productions of Burke. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 4, September, 1850 Proverbs must be distinguished from proverbial phrases, and from sententious maxims; but as proverbs have many faces, from their miscellaneous nature, the class itself scarcely admits of any definition. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 Gaga was not at all drunk; he was merely sententious and sentimental. Coquette "I do—I'm blowed if I don't, Tit!" was the sententious answer. Ten Thousand a-Year. Volume 1. There was Dr. Alderson, Mrs. Opie’s father, solemn and sententious and eccentric in manner, but not an able man in any way;’ and thus the leading lights of Norwich are contemptuously dismissed. East Anglia Personal Recollections and Historical Associations "Far from undoing be that which is accomplished!" was the sententious answer. The Brass Bottle “Men sententious of speech and quick of pistol practice.” The Missourian A few minutes after, while the two were in an earnest discussion, the Mohawk appeared among them, and said, in his sententious manner: "Come with me—walk still—make no noise." The Wilderness Fugitives He gave a sententious nod of his head. Carmen Ariza “I know many things,” was the sententious answer. Jessica, the Heiress "A superfluity of good things is good," was the Jinnee's sententious reply. The Brass Bottle “But not,” murmured the sententious lady of the rebosa, 133“august enough to appear before Him unless He sends for Her.” The Missourian But in India, Sakyamuni, probably five hundred years before, had laid down in sententious maxims the philosophical principle which underlies the higher religious doctrine of a future life. The Religious Sentiment Its Source and Aim: A Contribution to the Science and Philosophy of Religion "Below twenty boys are too rash; above twenty-five they are too prudent," said a sententious French aviator. Aircraft and Submarines The Story of the Invention, Development, and Present-Day Uses of War's Newest Weapons The letter was very long, and was full of sententious instructions, such as the above. Is He Popenjoy? Thus the domain of history was greatly enlarged, and scientific, that is, simple and objective, exposition began to compete with the rhetorical or sententious, patriotic or philosophical ideals of antiquity. Introduction to the Study of History He perceived himself slipping into the sententious on slight pretence—but presently found himself engaged. The Spanish Jade His doctrines were enunciated in sententious and poetical language; and from his place of exile they were disseminated over the Italian peninsula. Pius IX. And His Time He talked aloud to himself, sententious in his anxiety, as if he were perfectly sober, whilst the mare bowled along and the rain beat on him. The Rainbow But this couplet is subjected to improvement to adjust it to the sense, to sustain the level of feeling, and to enhance the sententious point. An Essay on True and Apparent Beauty in which from Settled Principles is Rendered the Grounds for Choosing and Rejecting Epigrams We have, in Bacon's grand sententious phrase, to command nature by obeying. Social Rights and Duties, Volume I (of 2) Addresses to Ethical Societies A sententious style is one abounding in sentences that are singly striking or memorable, apart from the context; the word may be used invidiously of that which is pretentiously oracular. English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions Mother listened very quietly until I had finished, then remarked with sententious approval. A Son of the Middle Border Artful Madge’s sententious observation with regard to adversity was the fruit of bitter experience. A Bookful of Girls He was suddenly the perfect clergyman, attentive, sympathetic, sententious. The Saracen: The Holy War "If she loves him I canna interfere, and if she doesna there is no need to interfere," replied Mrs. MacDavitt, with sententious wisdom. The Light of the Star A Novel What is a sententious style? a pithy utterance? English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions The English is so much more terse and sententious, besides involving a much higher moral signification, that it may well be an original itself; but in that case, the verbal coincidence is striking enough. Notes and Queries, Number 193, July 9, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc His voice was rich and sonorous; his mode of speech brief and sententious; his conversation full of information, and rich in suggestive thought. Madame Roland, Makers of History No; I know it begins with some other letter:—and she hath the prettiest sententious of it, of you and Rosemary, that it would do you good to hear it. The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare Perhaps I was getting too sententious over it. Somehow Good The situation of Hamlet is almost identical with that of Brutus after he has dealt the blow, and the burden of Hamlet's too lengthy speech finds an echo in Brutus's sententious utterance. The New Hudson Shakespeare: Julius Cæsar The soldiers calmed down, taken aback by the nobility of my emotions and sententious eloquence. My First Battle A Sergeant's Story “There’s never time to waste time,” was the sententious reply. One Snowy Night Long ago at Oxford Then resuming his sententious tone of military command, he took up the task where he had left it off. The Lady of Loyalty House A Novel The "mosaics" were collected not only from the Bible; the Targum, the Mishna, and the Talmud were rifled of sententious expressions, woven together, and with the license of art202 placed in unexpected juxtaposition. Jewish Literature and Other Essays Of mortality he has always some rich sententious thing to say, praising 'the workmanship of death, that finishes the sorrowful business of a wretched life.' Raleigh The scheme and manner of these essays naturally induced a sententious and almost undeveloped manner of writing. A History of Elizabethan Literature "You can not always believe what you read," was the sententious rejoinder. Hester's Counterpart A Story of Boarding School Life Your reasons at dinner have been sharp and sententious; pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, audacious without impudency, learned without opinion, and strange without heresy.—Shakespeare. Pearls of Thought Horace, a little, blear-eyed, contemptible fellow, yet who so sententious and wise? True to His Home A Tale of the Boyhood of Franklin “It storms when it storms—in the mountains,” she responded, with the sententious air of her father. The Forester's Daughter A Romance of the Bear-Tooth Range With that sententious maxim, which, indeed, he uttered in his native Italian, Riccabocca turned round, and renewed his soothing invitations to confidence. The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851 Portia is profound as she is brilliant; Camiola is sensible and sententious; she asserts her dignity very successfully; but we cannot for a moment imagine Portia as reduced to the necessity of asserting hers. Characteristics of Women Moral, Poetical, and Historical But wherever in his Gospel S. Mark is doing the same thing, he is observed to adopt the style and manner which Dr. Davidson is pleased to call “sententious” and “abrupt.” The Last Twelve Verses of the Gospel According to S. Mark He waived these suggestions away with the sententious remark, "that his life was written on the pages of his country's history." Robert Toombs Statesman, Speaker, Soldier, Sage Quirk," said Garnett, in the slow and sententious manner he adopted, "is a radical and a demagogue, a positive scourge to the town. Grey Town An Australian Story The culprit, who had just joined us, cast down his eyes at this tale about him, and murmured in a sententious tone of voice, "Pipes are an invention of the devil." Adventures of a Young Naturalist His stomach protruded somewhat, and, when he spoke in his sententious manner, the belt would rise and sink in a spasmodic fashion which kept time with his words. Camp-fire and Wigwam They are particularly valuable for the flashes of insight into the deeper relations of events, for brief, sententious observations in which he sums up his judgments upon men and their doings. Studies in Literature and History “His Majesty made a short reply,”—which it may be was then thought such, but which now would assuredly be set down as long, wordy, and sententious. It Might Have Been The Story of the Gunpowder Plot I think we were both a little sententious because of the approach of the train. At Plattsburg Something grand, you may be sure, for, in the beautiful words of the brave and sententious Commander Bravida, retired captain of equipment, who never spoke except in apothegms: "Eagles hunt no flies." Tartarin On The Alps “I reckon hit air,” remarked the sententious “Swamp.” Radio Boys Loyalty Bill Brown Listens In Whatever small, favorable outcome it did for them financially he knew all too clearly that it was exploiting the exploited whatever august and sententious aim he might entertain. An Apostate: Nawin of Thais The renunciation in these cases, however sententious, is often far from sincere; and it is even made not unfrequently, with a view to the attainment of that very distinction which it affects to disclaim. A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians, in the Middle and Higher Classes in this Country, Contrasted with Real Christianity. Kinvig was a solemn person, very stiff and starchy, and sententious in his way, a mighty man among the Methodists, and a power in the pulpit. Capt'n Davy's Honeymoon “Bad plan to stand nigh the muzzle of a big gun when she’s going to be fired,” growled Ben, in a sententious voice, and the secretary turned upon him sharply. The Young Castellan A Tale of the English Civil War He was a fine showy man, vain of his handsome person, theatrical in his manners, pompous, slow and sententious in his speech. The Political History of England - Vol. X. The History of England from the Accession of George III to the close of Pitt's first Administration At this place that in youth he had referred to as home for lack of anything more substantial, he quickly packed his bags and thought of how concocted and sententious morality was. An Apostate: Nawin of Thais He composed A Discourse on War in General, which is very sententious. Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography Our inquiry as to what had become of their birch canoe brought from Henry, as he dropped his pack, the sententious answer, "Busted." Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science Ganimard took his time, reflected and retorted, in a sententious tone: "It is just when a thing gets beyond me that I suspect Arsène Lupin most." The Blonde Lady Being a Record of the Duel of Wits between Arsène Lupin and the English Detective "Sancho Panza's proverbs," said the duchess, "though more numerous than those of the Greek commentator, are equally admirable for their sententious brevity." Wit and Wisdom of Don Quixote Her style," wrote a high authority, D�llinger, "is clear, terse, refined, often sententious; her business letters are patterns of simplicity and pregnant brevity. A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. But he did not act on frigid fragments of sententious suspiciousness. Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography The decisions rendered by judges utter in dogmatic or sententious form the current notions of truth and right about those relations. Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals His tone was so sententious that Serviss instantly became flippant, as an offset. The Tyranny of the Dark But just now private members' nights stand in the same relation to the Session as the sententious traveller found to be the case with snakes in Iceland. The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 30, June 1893 An Illustrated Monthly "I have asked her, sir, and she has refused me," he said in a melancholy, low, and sententious voice. Cousin Henry Of course his sententious catch-phrase of appealing to "hand, head, and heart" was always made the most of, and Punch delighted in paraphrasing it as "gloves, hat, and waistcoat." The History of "Punch" People say it's bad luck to move a cat," said Nora, in her sententious fashion; "but we don't believe in it. A Little Girl of Long Ago The pilot turned out to be a good-natured specimen of his kind, condescending, sententious. Chance A Tale in Two Parts "Sure," was the sententious answer of the tall civilian, as he sauntered to the steps. Tonio, Son of the Sierras A Story of the Apache War Davidson smiled to himself at this description, which the chief uttered with the sententious gravity that would have characterised his speech and bearing in a council of war. The Buffalo Runners A Tale of the Red River Plains I heard these for some time, interspersed with sententious eulogies upon particular persons, and references to isolated events. Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War These sententious bits of wisdom he considers utterly charming. A Little Girl of Long Ago Were we to define truly what is meant by safety or salvation, we should be spared further elaboration, and the law would stand out as a sententious common-place. Natural Law in the Spiritual World So I withdraw, carrying with me my little bag of tricks, the sententious Dog, the cynical Sark and the rest of the contents. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, February 16, 1916 The majority of the scribblers leave a name and nothing more: beyond that, some few of their productions are witty, some sententious, mostly gross. Diary in America, Series One Implacable, dutiful, soldierly, rigorous in discipline, sententious, brave,—the most unpopular man in America went on his way, and I think that he is recovering public favor again. Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War "Women see these things where men cannot," was the somewhat sententious reply. A War-Time Wooing A Story "The speech he didn't make just now in reply to Chamberlain," said Curzon, in that sententious tone, and with that grave manner he has learned among the Apaches of the Ural Mountains. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, April 1, 1893 A proverb is a short, sententious saying, in the nature of a maxim, connoting a definite truth or suggestion by comparison. Jesus the Christ A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy Scriptures Both Ancient and Modern He combined the realistic modern method with the bitter, ironical, sententious method of Thackeray. Personality in Literature All are equally pert, brisk, and dapper in expression; all are equally sententious and smart in aim; all are absolutely identical in function and effect. Views and Reviews Essays in appreciation Its short, sententious sentences were altogether to his mind. The Golden Shoemaker or 'Cobbler' Horn The Alto was a grave, learned, and sententious man. The Violin Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators Why, the poet,"—more sententious than before,—"the poet sells his song; he knows that the airiest visions must resolve into trade-laws. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 103, May, 1866 There followed a short and sententious conversation between the mulatto, the half king and the Ricahecrian chief. Prisoners of Hope A Tale of Colonial Virginia Occasionally his remarks bordered upon the sententious, but he never "orated," invariably using a conversational tone; many of his points were driven home by humorous allusions or anecdotes rather than by didactic logic. Woodrow Wilson and the World War A Chronicle of Our Own Times. Jumbo grinned a good deal at the sententious gravity with which the leader delivered his orders, and the self-important strides with which he passed over the land. Black Ivory Of course we had music, beginning with ‘God save the Queen,’ and speeches—brilliant as well as heavy; sententious and comic—like all other similar gatherings, and the enthusiasm was unbounded. Blue Lights Hot Work in the Soudan He was the best and boldest harpooner in Captain Dunning’s ship, and a sententious deliverer of his private opinion on all occasions whatsoever. The Red Eric "I am glad to have proved the strength of my brother," was the sententious reply. Prisoners of Hope A Tale of Colonial Virginia Of course Mrs Dotropy was also there, grand, confused, sententious as ever, amiable, and unable to command her feelings—in a state, so to speak, of melting magnificence. The Young Trawler Having uttered this cautious reply with sententious gravity he continued his supper in silence. The Crew of the Water Wagtail Aglootook was close to the opening at the moment, giving sententious directions to some little boys. The Walrus Hunters A Romance of the Realms of Ice Another, on the contrary, desires abrupt sententious periods; Dionysius shall answer him for me, who maintains that pointed sentences should not be admitted into letters. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 “Day-dreams, my friend, day-dreams,—natural enough, but very unlikely to come true,” said Stephen in a somewhat sententious tone, such as he considered became one of his mature years. Roger Willoughby A Story of the Times of Benbow I don't mean to be sententious, but this is the death-grapple that is coming. Before the Dawn A Story of the Fall of Richmond As an author, therefore, he is sententious; as a conversationist, loose and verbose;—or the reverse of this may be true. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858 Cheenbuk looked suddenly in the face of his sententious companion with earnest surprise in every feature, for the sentiments which had just been expressed were in exact accordance with his own. The Walrus Hunters A Romance of the Realms of Ice Another will not allow of a sententious manner in my letters; I will still justify myself by Seneca. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 “Boys will be boys!” said Jack, in his quaint, sententious fashion. Betty Trevor “It is also—incidentally—supposed to be a time for mental improvement,” returned Darsie in sententious tones, which brought upon her an instant rebuke. A College Girl He thought he had never seen anything prettier than the sparkling, mischievous little face, or listened to conversation more charming than the quaint, sententious phrases. More About Peggy The hunting-grounds are wide enough!” he said, in the grave sententious tones peculiar to his race. The Walrus Hunters A Romance of the Realms of Ice We are not likely indeed to adopt Chapman's view that the elements that give it enduring value are "materiall instruction, elegant and sententious excitation to vertue, and deflection from her contrary." Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois "He used to pick up meat for me," said Seth in his sententious way, neither surprised nor pleased on finding this associate of his adventurous days here in this place of his new beginning. Trail's End These pleasant words were exchanged as they walked through a long corridor where their sententious phrases were repeated by the echoes; but suddenly a horrible uproar arrested their conversation and their footsteps. The Nabob, Volume 1 Naturally growing philosophical; insensibly cultivates habit of sententious speech. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 104, February 4, 1893 His style has nothing of the grace of Plato; he illuminates his works with no myths or allegories; his manner is dry, sententious, familiar, without the slightest attempt at ornament. A Short History of Greek Philosophy Mr. Adamson, in a few satirical, well-reasoned, sententious paragraphs, has fairly demolished the superstructure which Selfishness had reared, and exposed the misrepresentations upon which alone the unsubstantial fabric could have rested. Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, March 1844 Volume 23, Number 3 The author of no complete history, he was not the less a divine master of historic narration, grave or gay, sententious or impassioned. Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy "One of the gnomic, or sententious poets," I replied. My New Curate He loved to listen better than to talk, but when with friends he would always take part in the conversation, often spicing his sententious remarks with humorous comments. Perley's Reminiscences, v. 1-2 of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis But his style was too often prolix, sententious, and turgid—faults which marked nearly all the writing done in this country in those days. John Quincy Adams American Statesmen Series Then Sir Oracle was never more sententious, more full of 'wise saws and modern instances,' than they. Reminiscences of Sixty Years in Public Affairs, Vol. 2 He was methodical and sententious, expressed his opinion on all subjects with the air of a man whose judgment was infallible, and was an ardent disciple of Voltaire and Rousseau. No Surrender! A Tale of the Rising in La Vendee There hung about Anderson's talk to-day, as so frequently, a certain sententious and acidulous manner that, to Gard, evidenced twinges of rheumatism. Villa Elsa A Story of German Family Life Unlike the Adams family generally, he had a rough wit and a sententious practical wisdom about common things not unlike the kindred conspicuous qualities in Dr. Franklin. Reminiscences of Sixty Years in Public Affairs, Vol. 1 "She will make a good prize," was his sententious remark to Gray about the English ship. Vikings of the Pacific The Adventures of the Explorers who Came from the West, Eastward The Doctor had a great gift of sententious speech, not only in his written discourses, but in his ordinary conversation or his instruction from the professor's chair. Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 "Long may it wave!" was Adrian's sententious comment. The Broncho Rider Boys with Funston at Vera Cruz Or, Upholding the Honor of the Stars and Stripes Though full of a simple and somewhat sententious morality, he is querulous, irritable, ignorant. James Fenimore Cooper American Men of Letters I reflected on the conversations I heard among the students, and the pithy, sententious sayings of the Professor at the table. Confessions of Boyhood In a sententious tone he said: "I say that it's not to be despised." Golden Stories A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost Writers Dr. Walker said of this occurrence, after his sententious fashion: "Other men have served the College; Samuel Hoar saved it." Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 "Sound," was the colonel's answer, slow and sententious. An Apache Princess A Tale of the Indian Frontier In the course of an earnest conference at the Tuscarora House the evening of the quarry accident, the Hon. Samuel Bowers had removed his cigar to let fall a sententious observation. The Henchman I have heard closer speech, more sententious, more convincing and in more direct and forcible language in town meeting than from any other forum. Confessions of Boyhood We find a new and delicious personality, a simple Greek naturalness, in this exquisite dirge that scarcely owns the 'blasphemy of grief,' that are wanted in his sententious instructions and metaphysical wanderings. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Presently he gave forth the result of his reflections in a sententious tone. A Journey to the Centre of the Earth Here "Wedding-ring Edwards," in his quaint, sententious manner, growled out brief epigrammatic sentences, full of shrewdness and wisdom, most strangely seasoned with semi-contemptuous sarcasm. Personal Recollections of Birmingham and Birmingham Men Here is no well planned moral, no sententious mouthpiece of abstract excellence, no ruin of sinners and crowning of saints. The Growth of English Drama Lycurgus himself was short and sententious in his discourse, if we may judge by some of his answers which are recorded; that, for instance, concerning the constitution. Ideal Commonwealths The guide to familiar quotations, the index to similes, the grammars, the readers, the machine-made letter-writer of mechanically perfect letters of congratulation or condolence—none are sententious enough to supply the need. Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases A Practical Handbook Of Pertinent Expressions, Striking Similes, Literary, Commercial, Conversational, And Oratorical Terms, For The Embellishment Of Speech And Literature, And The Improvement Of The Vocabulary Of Those Persons Who Read, Write, And Speak English This grave, sententious, silent person, as phlegmatic as an Englishman on the French stage, was named Hans Bjelke. A Journey to the Centre of the Earth In Cibber, we especially mark the Spanish element, which then tinged the drama, and although somewhat prosy and sententious, he is fertile and entertaining in his love intrigues. History of English Humour, Vol. 1 With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour These Seneca modified by the introduction of acts and scenes, a subordination of the Chorus, and an exaggerated predilection for long sententious speeches; he also added a new stage character known as the Ghost. The Growth of English Drama Neither the lawyer nor his wife repeated any of those sententious admonitions, which had almost become rebukes, and which had been so common in their mouths. Phineas Finn The Irish Member So they appear simply as general sententious literature, whereas in the originals they are as a rule introduced solely to illustrate or to emphasize some particular point of the story. The Influence of India and Persia on the Poetry of Germany When he is sententious and didactic he seems to have caught something of Emerson's manner. President Wilson's Addresses It is either verbal or sententious, and does not rise higher than, "Few things are impossible to women." History of English Humour, Vol. 1 With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour "There's always a lot of talk when folks die sudden," he went on, in a sententious tone. What Timmy Did I do not pretend that he expressed himself with such sententious brevity, though he never wasted speech, but they are the pith and marrow of his admonitions. Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland The second book brings another contribution of sententious wisdom, most of which is neither new nor Oriental. The Influence of India and Persia on the Poetry of Germany The interview of the two old men is like a Greek play; their wisdom and experience are utteredPg 118 in stately, sententious language, and many a proverb falls from their lips. Frédéric Mistral Poet and Leader in Provence And yet in the poetry of El Khunsa and others, which is of an elegiac character, there are passages full of sententious apothegms and proverbial wisdom. The Women of the Arabs The minor prophets exhibit a great diversity of manner and style—the rugged and sententious, the full and flowing, the oratorical, and the simple and unadorned. Companion to the Bible He was a puffy, wheezy, sententious little fellow, who accompanied his parables with a snort into a large finely plaited shirt-frill, reaching nearly up to his nose. Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour Compared with him La Rochefoucauld's manner is hard, and that of La Bruyère sententious. Critical Miscellanies (Vol 2 of 3) Essay 1: Vauvenargues The owner of the fleet, Apian, is a sententious individual. Frédéric Mistral Poet and Leader in Provence Then she leant back in the cab and a low, sententious laugh lazily parted her lips. Sally Bishop A Romance Hosea's style is very concise and sententious, and his diction impresses even the casual reader as original and peculiar. Companion to the Bible In my experience," said the writing man of sententious sayings, "there have been a dozen 'villages.' Greenwich Village Their language in common speaking is proverbial and sententious. The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants At the same time he is not ignorant of the arts of rhetoric, and especially in the speeches he is fond of introducing sounding phrases and sententious statements. History of the Wars, Books I and II The Persian War But Scott was interested in plays for what he found in them of characters and manners, of witty and sententious speech, of situations and incidents, and only secondarily in the technical aspects of the drama. Sir Walter Scott as a Critic of Literature The words of Jesus are there, more deliberate, more sententious. The Life of Jesus Now and later he lectured Richard in a kindly if sententious way; and he must have fostered the boy's natural strong spirit of revolt. Richard Wagner Composer of Operas Having delivered which sententious maxim, M. Plon rose with some difficulty from his chair, and gazed round the room. Tales from Many Sources Vol. V But it is a good thing to love the classics and devotion," he went on presently with a sententious air, "they are solaces in time of trouble. The King's Achievement The sententious English poet has declared that "the proper study of mankind is man," and of all inquiries of a temporal nature, the history of our fellow-beings is unquestionably among the most interesting. The Art of Public Speaking Why, you must agree with me in all this, so I shall not be sententious any longer. The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846 "Ready! they come!" remarks the sententious guide, who takes matters in a cool manner, showing no sign of emotion. Miss Caprice She tells us also, he affected "a sententious wit;" but she adds, that it consisted "only of quaint and stale conceits." Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions "There's but one of me in the Union," said the gentleman, sententious: "my spear knows no brother." The Day of Days An Extravaganza You musn’t believe mamma when she pretends to be grand and sententious. The Claverings And then it was that Drusus caught his first glimpse of that noble and sententious egotism which was a characteristic of the great proconsul. A Friend of Caesar A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C. Indeed I scarcely thought of That Jim, whose heels were grinding the hard gravel close behind me, except when he saw fit occasionally to propound the sententious, and I thought derisive, query, "Tired?" The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8 Epigrams, On With the Dance, Negligible Tales We need not take the word of Mrs. Macaulay, since we have so much of this "sententious wit" recorded, of which probably she knew little. Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions They were uniformly forcible, sententious and argumentative; always dignified, frequently impassioned and powerful. Life of Tecumseh, and of His Brother the Prophet With a Historical Sketch of the Shawanoe Indians One of these uninteresting, though faultless tragedies was "Cato," which Warton pronounces a "sententious and declamatory drama" filled with "pompous Roman sentiments," but wanting action and pathos. A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century One could say the poetical or sententious without being insulted by a stare. The Young Seigneur Or, Nation-Making Sonnets.—His sonnets have been variously estimated: they are not as polished as his other poems, but are crystal-like and sententious, abrupt bursts of opinion and feeling in fourteen lines. English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction London," said Primrose, in a somewhat sententious voice, has "points of the compass, like any other place. The Palace Beautiful A Story for Girls A sententious black servant in maroon livery and a bright worsted waistcoat announced dinner from the foot of the terrace, and they moved slowly toward the house. The Three Black Pennys A Novel "It stooped to truth and moralized its song," finding its favorite occupation in the sententious expression of platitudes—the epigram in satire, the maxim in serious work. A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century That a woman should demonstrate to a man in fine sententious language the expediency of marrying her, is not inconsistent with good sense, but it is displeasing. Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol 1 of 2) Witty and humorous, sententious and didactic, solemn and pathetic, he not only pleases the fancy, but touches the heart. English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction Flood doubted whether Johnson, being long used to sententious brevity and the short flights of conversation, would have succeeded in the expanded kind of argument required in public speaking. Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale) (2nd ed.) (2 vols.) Edited with notes and Introductory Account of her life and writings These sententious people, with all their information, have probably never gone through the process of which they speak. Prose Fancies The sententious speaker is, of course, full and concise. A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, Or The Causes Of Corrupt Eloquence The Works Of Cornelius Tacitus, Volume 8 (of 8); With An Essay On His Life And Genius, Notes, Supplements His instructions were conceived in short, emphatic, sententious rules, in occasional reflections, or in round maxims. Evidence of Christianity They are short, pithy, sententious, telling us plain truths in simple language: he had been writing them through several years. English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction "Or forbids the interchange of true sympathy—that priceless privilege," answered Selma, her liking for a sententious speech rising paramount even to the pleasure caused her by the allusion to her personal appearance. Unleavened Bread She is a 'seventh-month child,' and 'seventh-month children always see things,' she says, with a funny little sententious shake of her head. Prose Fancies Then it was that the affected sententious brevity came into vogue. A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, Or The Causes Of Corrupt Eloquence The Works Of Cornelius Tacitus, Volume 8 (of 8); With An Essay On His Life And Genius, Notes, Supplements Dale had raised his eyes, and, while speaking now, in the same sententious manner, he seemed to be observing Mr. Cleaver's face very closely. The Devil's Garden Poems.—His poems are rather sententious than harmonious. English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction But Lundy with sententious shrewdness and liberality suggested to the young radical: "Thee may put thy initials to thy articles and I will put my initials to mine, and each will bear his own burden." William Lloyd Garrison The Abolitionist But there is a truth pertaining to the change of which the sententious people are not, I think, aware. Prose Fancies The latter was busy in France, but he wrote a sententious letter to Cologne, exhorting both chapter and city to be obedient to their chosen spiritual and lay lord. Charles the Bold Last Duke of Burgundy, 1433-1477 Such is the curt, sententious utterance in the Greek text. Notes on the Apocalypse But it is all vastly serious—it would perhaps be unkind to say sententious—and wholly unruffled by the faintest suggestion of comedy. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, February 7, 1917 The smug, sententious side of the bourgeoisie already existed in the time of Charles VII. Là-bas This curious circumstance set me reflecting, and, as we trundled along towards Charing Cross, my mind gave birth to sundry sententious reflections. Prose Fancies He is the village wise man; very sententious; and full of profound remarks on shallow subjects. Bracebridge Hall Many other stories of his goodness and simplicity and sententious remarks were related to Valerius, who became interested in his neighbour, and invited him to dinner. Plutarch's Lives, Volume II It should however be added, that Grotius's own style is short, sententious and broken; and possesses nothing of the meliflous ease of the ultramontane Latinists; or of our Milton or Buchanan. The Life of Hugo Grotius With Brief Minutes of the Civil, Ecclesiastical, and Literary History of the Netherlands That is so sententious, Kenneth, that I shall have to take it home and ravel it out gradually in my mind in little shreds. Real Folks He was quite conscious that he sometimes laid down the law in an authoritative and even sententious manner. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 31, October, 1873 Borrow is not a pithy writer, nor is he best when sententious; the following passages are, therefore, somewhat longer than is usual in this series of Anthologies. The Pocket George Borrow "Walkin' fast," continued the sententious lad, swallowing immediately half a cup of milk. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 33, December, 1873 The words sounded irrelevant; they even had a sententious ring. The Lamp in the Desert A slight ripple upon the smooth and pleasing surface of the universal inclination to do us honor is a sententious controversy between the mirza and a blatant individual who enters objections about killing a sheep. Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama After a silence and a survey of the faces around, he added with sententious effect: "And I was right about Bordir!" The Last Shot "A person's recreation is as good for him as his food, sir," proclaimed Rollo, sententious, anxious to agree. Romance Island Monsieur de Guiraud, who was a magistrate, gave vent to some sententious observations on the need of stemming the vice of Paris. A Love Episode For convenience of the reader an effort has been made to arrange these sententious sayings under general subjects. The Journal of Negro History, Volume 1, January 1916 This light way of declining invitations to vice and folly, is more becoming a young man, than philosophical or sententious refusals, which would only be laughed at. The Young Gentleman and Lady's Monitor, and English Teacher's Assistant And he knew that though what he had said was true, it had also sounded young and sententious. The Dark House “He may delay his defense if he like,” said a sententious young officer to whom I had imparted this natural wish. The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 1 He is the village wise man; very sententious, and full of profound remarks on shallow subjects. Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists He is middle-aged, rich, lethargic, sententious, dogmatic, and, in short, the quintessence of the commonplace. Some Private Views After reading Dr. Johnson's works his conversation became sententious and dogmatic. The Parish Clerk "Pleasure is but the refreshment that cheers us in the pursuit of true happiness," I answered, hoping to evade the direct question by a sententious phrase. Mr. Isaacs He was a High Churchman, and had a reputation as "a witty and sententious preacher, an exquisite orator, and an eminent poet." A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature He called the man's attention to the cause of the damage, and, being a sententious old fellow, asked him why he didn't think what he was doing. Grain and Chaff from an English Manor As a slow and sententious enunciation was characteristic of him, the symptoms attracted no attention, until he fell under a sudden and violent attack. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4 Immediately, in the clerk's usual sententious tone, came the reply, "His own." The Parish Clerk In support of this opinion, he said that all the rest of the sermon was sententious commonplace about the soul, and obedience to the Church. Evelyn Innes Oh! it does me good to be a little pedantic; I am so excited, it calms me; I am not so afraid of going crazy when I adopt the sententious manner. The Cross of Berny Antonyms: unconcerned, indifferent. concerning, prep. regarding, about, respecting, touching, with reference to. concert, n. accordance, concurrence, harmony; musicale. concise, a. epigrammatic, sententious, succinct, laconic, pithy. Putnam's Word Book Often he was inclined to be pragmatic and sententious, and had a habit of saying unpleasantly bitter things when some careless joke was being made. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873 The style of her eloquence was sententious, free from prettiness, direct, vigorous, charged with vitality. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume II Slow and deliberate in his movements, and sententious in his utterances, he dealt so powerfully with evidence and so lucidly with principles of law that he rarely failed to carry conviction to his hearers. Daniel Webster Then came Tom Robertson with his so-called "tea-cup and saucer" school, which consisted of sententious dialogue, simple situations, conventional characterizations, and threads of plots, until Pinero and Jones put a stop to the Robertson fad. Shenandoah Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911 Antonym: insensuous. sentence, n. opinion, decision, determination, judgment; axiom, maxim, precept, posy, adage, epigram, apothegm, saying. sententious, a. terse, pithy, laconic, epigrammatic. sentient, a. sensitive, perceptive, conscious, susceptible. Putnam's Word Book What really makes the transformation complete is the absence in "Alice" of that half-comic sententious priggishness which, as soon as we have ceased to be children, we find so curiously irritating in Kingsley's "Water Babies." One Hundred Best Books The large collection of Cowper's letters is probably seldom taken from the shelf; and the "Elegant Extracts" select those letters which are most sententious, and therefore least characteristic. Cowper Now, kitchen-bound, he was no doubt using logic to create a sententious wallowing where the act was more hallowed in the past. Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America And then there was supper, and the Marquise was witty, and the Comte was sententious, while yet newer vistas opened of yet happier worlds, dancing on endlessly through the floods of conversation and champagne. Landmarks in French Literature "She has had her own good luck," quoth the sententious Nicky, "to find such a down set all cut and dry." Marriage The French, as you know, are remarkable for their fondness for sententious phrases, in which much meaning is condensed into a small space. The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster With an Essay on Daniel Webster as a Master of English Style Once, when Mrs. MacGregor said something sententious, and Glenn laughed, Nancy laughed with him. The Purple Heights The immortal twenty-line address at Gettysburg is the high water mark of sententious eloquence. Recollections of a Long Life An Autobiography The Crow was sententious and amused her, and did not expect her to talk. The Reason Why This sententious and characteristic communication between Ludlow and his second in command, was sufficient for all the purposes of that moment. The Water-Witch or, the Skimmer of the Seas As the term "decalogue," that is "ten words," indicates, the Biblical decalogue originally contained ten brief sententious commands, easily memorized even by children. The Making of a Nation The Beginnings of Israel's History The speeches abounded in short sententious utterances, in proverbs, poetic allusions and metaphors borrowed from legends. The Long White Cloud In the first of these Silvia brushes aside the importunities of her confidant Dafne who seeks to allure her to the blandishments of love with sententious natural examples and modern instances. Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama A Literary Inquiry, with Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration Stage in England Neither influenced English affairs, and their eloquence curiously was considered cold and sententious. The Glories of Ireland The Proverbs are not more sententious, nor the Psalms half as poetical, as your library. The Water-Witch or, the Skimmer of the Seas It was not an ordinary oration, but, in the main, an argument, as sententious and axiomatic as if made to a bench of jurists. Abraham Lincoln, a History — Volume 02 Oh, with what regret now did he think of the good advice which the captain had given him on board the Goldfinder, and of the sententious, timid wisdom of Mrs. Callender! John Caldigate The sententious passages, the occurrence of which we previously noted in the Queen's Arcadia, likewise appear. Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama A Literary Inquiry, with Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration Stage in England How the short, pithy, sententious sayings cling to the memory like burs! The Teaching of Jesus The true Augustan age of literature can never exist until works shall be as accurate, in their typography, as a "log book," and as sententious, in their matter, as a "watch-bill." The Red Rover Bunce would put in dry, sententious words of wit and wisdom. A Tale of One City: the New Birmingham Papers Reprinted from the "Midland Counties Herald" This sententious utterance had the effect of extinguishing the conversation for some moments, Marian being unable to think of a worthy rejoinder. The Irrational Knot Being the Second Novel of His Nonage But none of these, not even romances which deal in moral and sententious advice like Euphues, approach the essence of the novel as we know it. English Literature: Modern Home University Library of Modern Knowledge As the child, so also the woman—an uninteresting, sententious, pedantic thing; with no experience of the world, and yet with no simplicity or freshness in its stead. Famous Reviews The beauty of the flowers," observed old Mr. Delamere, with sententious gallantry, "is reflected upon all around them. The Marrow of Tradition "Them swells don't mean no girl no good no time," he had summed up his views with sententious accumulation of negatives. Wild Wings A Romance of Youth The survey completed, he once more fixed his scrutiny upon the young wife, and suddenly spoke in his sententious, abrupt manner. The Lost Trail After which little sententious homily out of the Book of the World, Mrs. Thoresby ruffled herself with dignity, and led her brood away with her. A Summer in Leslie Goldthwaite's Life. No candid critic can deny that there is little in his "History" which, as far as regards essential facts and principles, had not been previously stated in a more sententious form in his Essays. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 41, March, 1861 To-day they seem to convey little forewarning of the matchless lyric gift that was soon to awaken, being a shade too intellectual and sententious. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 01 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. This sententious apothegm is thrown out in contemplating the life of Savage, one of the English poets who united some of the highest requisites of genius with the lowest personal habits. Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers "Better be held up now," said a sententious man, "than be killed for want of prudence." Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, October 24, 1917 His language has the richness and sententious fullness of the Chinese. The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 One of these personages was the station keeper, of dry humor and sententious habit, whom we will call Hen Waters; the other was the station goat, named, of course, Billy. Library Work with Children Then adieu with good grace to my morals sententious! The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan To adopt the sententious language of the Bible, "It is not good for man to be alone." Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions and Discoveries Interspersed with Some Particulars Respecting the Author His eloquence, indeed, had not much of popular ornament, nor empty artifice, but there was in it great weight of sense; it was strong and sententious, much after the way of Thucydides. Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans Quite true, thou greatest oracle of the middle of the nineteenth century, thou sententious proclaimer of the purity of the press;—the public is defrauded when it is purposely misled. The Warden He had a strong Scotch accent; and, if a wee bit prosy at times, it was sententious and polished prose that he talked; he talked invariably like a book. Tracks of a Rolling Stone This was a trifle sententious, and Rowland turned to the bust of Miss Light. Roderick Hudson "P'r'ap he say, without so much talk," returned the sententious black, pointing one of his crooked and dingy fingers at the open volume. The Spy In short, their answers were so sententious and pertinent, that one said well that intellectual much more truly than athletic exercise was the Spartan characteristic. Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans To search his plays for vigorous sallies and sententious elegancies, or to fix the dates of any little pieces which he wrote by chance, or by solicitation, were labour too tedious and minute. Lives of the Poets, Volume 1 His manners cold, though his character was ardent; simple in his habits, austere and sententious, he advanced without hesitation towards the completion of his system. History of the French Revolution from 1789 to 1814 The Teuton expresses quiet, sententious canniness in every gesture and every utterance; he is a cold-blooded man and keeps his breath to cool his porridge. Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places "There is a warning to be prudent," said the peddler, in the sententious manner that he often adopted. The Spy And how cunningly the gorgeous diction twines itself, like ivy about a bare wall, concealing the nakedness of commonplace and giving an effect of noble sententious wisdom! The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller From such remarks proceeded that great number of sententious distichs, which have passed into conversation, and are added as proverbial axioms to the general stock of practical knowledge. Lives of the Poets, Volume 1 All very fine, and, doubtless, very true, as well as sententious and profound. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 24, October, 1859 Impenetrable reticence," the Count expounded, sententious—and enjoying himself hugely—"isn't possible in the human relations. The Lone Wolf A Melodrama On reaching home, in order to take his thoughts off the one engrossing subject, he sat down at the table and proceeded to read over certain sententious passages written by him recently. Sanine In the scene with Lady Milford she appears as a pert little pharisee, caustic, sententious and philosophical beyond her years; so that one wonders why a girl that knows so much should not know more. The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller That sententious Swedish Queen, one of whose foolish maxims I have quoted, has said that Cicero, though a coward, was capable of great actions, because she did not know what a coward was. The Life of Cicero Volume One The wretches do not scruple to avow this, in their own sententious manner. Satanstoe He who is at odds with Popinot," he observed, sententious, "does well not to sleep in public. The Lone Wolf A Melodrama He snubbed them with sententious arrogance, leavened with sarcasm. The English Governess at the Siamese Court Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok "Let them drown, and be d——d!" was the chief-mate's sententious answer. Afloat and Ashore A Sea Tale With no more sententious language was the character of a great man ever offered up to public scorn. The Life of Cicero Volume One This will suffice for a sample of our conversation; and sententious as it was, you may believe I did not stay long to profit by it. An Essay on the History of Civil Society, Eighth Edition The literature it inspired was primarily gnomic, that is, sententious, analogous to that of Pythagoras, with a tendency towards little moral tales and parables, as in the Gospel. Initiation into Literature This abstract, piquant, sententious style, too, is a little dry, over-refined and monotonous. Amiel's Journal The student was a dogmatic reasoner, dry, rectilinear, never swerving from his point of view; he spoke but little, but when he did speak, it was in a sententious manner. The Quest A virile old friend of mine--who lived in Texas, though he went there from Rhode Island--used to declare with sententious emphasis that war is the state of man. Marse Henry, Complete An Autobiography A virile old friend of mine—who lived in Texas, though he went there from Rhode Island—used to declare with sententious emphasis that war is the state of man. Marse Henry (Volume 1) An Autobiography This sententious imperturbability was only on the surface; whether it was a natural characteristic or an acquired manner is not easy to decide. The Afghan Wars 1839-42 and 1878-80 The sage will mingle with each moral theme My happy thoughts sententious; he will teem With lofty periods when my verses fire him, And then I'll stoop from heaven to inspire him. Poems 1817 I praise God for you, Sir: your reasons at dinner have been sharp and sententious; pleasant without scurrility, witty without affection, audacious without impudency, learned without opinion, and strange without heresy. The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded They are as sleuthhounds in the infallibility of their scent, and in their sayings no less sententious than the rubrics of the law. Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3 In the short, sententious manner of the Indians, he said to them: "You now follow me three times; if you follow me again, I kill you!" and wheeling around abruptly, returned to his canoe. The old Santa Fe trail The Story of a Great Highway The golden youth of the country seemed fascinated by his society, repeated his sententious bons-mot, and applied for shares in every company which he launched into prosperous existence. Endymion He spoke little, but his remarks, without being sententious, had a nobleness of tone that caused them to re-echo in the young girl's ears at the end of the day. Madame De Mauves So in As You Like It, the Duke says of the Clown, He is very swift and sententious. Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies She spoke with sententious earnestness and looked across the table appealingly at George Gorham. The Law-Breakers and Other Stories The sententious and dogmatic style of this preamble cannot fail to strike the reader; but it is surpassed by many of the precepts which follow. The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius Mrs. Brook was almost sententious, but Nanda, with civility, let it pass. The Awkward Age Was it he who perpetrated those sententious lines? Alone After a long and solemn, but not unmeaning pause, he commenced in a low voice, and sententious style. An Account of Sa-Go-Ye-Wat-Ha, or Red Jacket, and His People, 1750-1830 In the presence of that sort of disaster all honourable men are lugubrious and sententious. The History of Mr. Polly Pliny has a strong vein of satire, and its effect is increased by a certain sententious quaintness which gives a racy flavour to many otherwise dull enumerations of facts. The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius Had he lived to do so, he might well have underlined, as applicable to himself, a pair of those sententious observations with which Defoe essayed to give a sober purpose to his narrative. The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders The style of the whole is more sententious than imaginative: the glowing colours of fancy could not with propriety have been employed on such a subject. Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature The truth of this speech palliating its sententious absurdity, made Cecilia give up her faint attempt to soften him; and her chair being ready, she arose to take leave. Cecilia; Or, Memoirs of an Heiress — Volume 2 Henry had been sitting near to him, and had been suddenly startled by his unexpectedly breaking out into a volley of learning, delivered in a voice impressively deliberate and sententious. Young Lives Given the characters and their respective attitudes towards life, this sententious thrashing-out of the situation was inevitable. Play-Making A Manual of Craftsmanship His sentences are pithy and sententious, because short--never long and involved. My Native Land The United States: its Wonders, its Beauties, and its People; with Descriptive Notes, Character Sketches, Folk Lore, Traditions, Legends and History, for the Amusement of the Old and the Instruction of the Young Hence Shakspeare has composed the play in Hamlet altogether in sententious rhymes full of antitheses. Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature My first argument is borrowed from Solomon, an arrow drawn out of his sententious quiver, Pro. iii. The Anatomy of Melancholy Adj. vigorous, nervous, powerful, forcible, trenchant, incisive, impressive; sensational. spirited, lively, glowing, sparkling, racy, bold, slashing; pungent, piquant, full of point, pointed, pithy, antithetical; sententious. lofty, elevated, sublime; eloquent; vehement, petulant, impassioned; poetic. Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases His conversation abounds in original observations, delivered with no appearance of sententious formality, and seeming to arise spontaneously, without study or premeditation. Lives of the English Poets From Johnson to Kirke White, Designed as a Continuation of Johnson's Lives These are in the spirit of the formal classical poets, and contain sententious couplets such as "An idler is a watch that wants both hands, As useless if it goes as when it stands." Halleck's New English Literature This was a sententious, and witty observation, and it will always hold true, that the religion of the King will become the religion of people of fashion, and the lower stations ape their superiors. The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume III He is a good reader, a steady, sententious, epigrammatic preacher, and with a little more knowledge of the world ought to make a clever and most useful minister. Our Churches and Chapels Their Parsons, Priests, & Congregations Being a Critical and Historical Account of Every Place of Worship in Preston "Better march"--said Nick, in his sententious manner--"Mohawk very mad." Wyandotte Although with good taste as well as classical erudition Ascham preferred Sophocles and Euripides to the oratorical and sententious Seneca, his view was not shared by the renaissance. Rhetoric and Poetry in the Renaissance A Study of Rhetorical Terms in English Renaissance Literary Criticism The sententious Polonius says in Hamlet:— "Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice." Halleck's New English Literature When it was suggested that young men could learn by admission to public life, the sententious reply was made that, while they could, they ought not to have their education at the public expense. The Constitution of the United States A Brief Study of the Genesis, Formulation and Political Philosophy of the Constitution Conversing with others, he was grave and sententious, not without a cast of severity. Old Mortality, Volume 1. "Dirty, too?" added the sententious Tuscarora, who did not comprehend more than half his friend said. Wyandotte First come the figures auricular peculiar to the poets, then the figures sensable common to the poets and the rhetoricians, and finally the figures sententious appropriate to the orators alone. Rhetoric and Poetry in the Renaissance A Study of Rhetorical Terms in English Renaissance Literary Criticism The immortal clockmaker, when he was in a more quaintly sententious humor than common, once propounded the doctrine that the direct road to a mother's heart is through her child. The Gerrard Street Mystery and Other Weird Tales Yet the fact that Stobæ'us found him a fruitful source of sententious quotations, and that alphabetical anthologies were made of his proverbial sayings, ought not to obscure his fame for drollery and humor. Mosaics of Grecian History His proverbs are famous specimens of sententious wisdom. General History for Colleges and High Schools This sententious and accurate delineation of the county Leitrim-man's characteristics induced a smile in the captain; but, O'Hearn entering at the moment, and possessing his entire confidence, he saw no use in replying. Wyandotte "The genie might be the spirit of war!" ventured a Baluchi, forgetting the one God of his Koran in a sententious effort to please Yasmini. The Winds of the World The Englishman, however, was persistent, while the judge's last sententious remark regarding the recent subdivision of the estate awakened a new interest in Fitz. Colonel Carter of Cartersville When he approached her, she communicated her intelligence in a grave and sententious tone of voice. Waverley Novels — Volume 12 In his slow, sententious tones, one could not help feeling that he was telling just how things appeared to him. Barriers Burned Away The old man delivered this opinion in an ominous and sententious manner, and then rode apart as if he had said enough. The Prairie His own words had a sententious sound in his ear and he felt that they were utterly inadequate, but he was fighting against heavy odds and did not know what to say. Greifenstein "Heaven forbid, Mistress Lilias," answered the sententious major-domo; "but yet there are worse folk than the Papists." The Abbot As they went, the King talked gravely with the holy man, interlarding and lining his sententious speeches with copious though not always correct quotations from the Vulgate. Via Crucis Probably in his limited education he had never read that sententious line regarding what often happens to the best laid plans of mice and men! Amanda — a Daughter of the Mennonites Their conference was short, but, as it was conducted in the sententious manner of the natives, it served to make each of the parties acquainted with all the necessary information of the other. The Prairie "If we lose them we also are lost," was his sententious declaration. A Fool and His Money His mother was at the time Regent of France, and to her he is said to have written the sententious letter, "All is lost except honor." The Duel Between France and Germany His speech was brief and pithy; not too often humorous; never sententious nor didactic. Charles Lamb "That was the only chance he'll ever have," was his sententious remark. The Rose in the Ring Who "Dr. Boteler" was, or what he did, is unknown, but he made a sententious remark which led Izaak Walton to give him immortality in his work, "The Compleat Angler." Success with Small Fruits The sententious Mr. Hatch: "The smartest women in the world lose their heads over a feller as soon as they find out he's in poor health." Quill's Window In face and person truly noble and commanding; in manners quiet and stiff; in voice deep and dragging; and in conversation, formal, sententious, calm, and Page 53 dry. The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 2 And because of these laches on his part,—on the part of this sententious French Radical,—I was to be thrown over! Autobiography of Anthony Trollope It was said that in one of his early candidacies he replied to an elector, who had asked him on what he intended to stand, in the sententious phrase "on my head!" Ten Englishmen of the Nineteenth Century He blinked slightly, pondered a moment upon this sententious drivel, then very properly ignored it, reverting to his puzzle. The Guest of Quesnay He had, before the close of a dignified, if somewhat sententious, address, recovered his breath, and completely his gravity. The Fool Errant Being the Memoirs of Francis-Anthony Strelley, Esq., Citizen of Lucca At times he is sententious, energetic, simple; then again, obscure and diffuse. Hyperion It is almost impossible for a translator to do justice to this sententious brevity unless the stanza in which he writes is in some sort analogous to the metre of Horace. The Odes and Carmen Saeculare of Horace He is not sententious, for he has not learnt to generalise; he does not speak in figures, for he is rarely impassioned. Emile "I suppose you have heard the report that Deacon Smith has stolen the church funds?" we say to our friends with a sententious sigh—the outward sign of an invisible satisfaction. Courts and Criminals In manner he was excessively punctilious, grave, collected, oracularly sententious. The Fool Errant Being the Memoirs of Francis-Anthony Strelley, Esq., Citizen of Lucca He is generally so sententious— fond of aphorisms, and a very deliberate character. How I Found Livingstone; travels, adventures, and discoveres in Central Africa, including an account of four months' residence with Dr. Livingstone, by Henry M. Stanley "You are quite wrong," said the young man with well-informed sententious gravity. The American Senator |
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